US president says strait will be opened as part of the deal, but Iran’s influential Fars news agency reports that vital waterway would remain under Iranian control

• Full report: Trump says peace deal with Iran ‘largely negotiated’ with strait of Hormuz to open

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson has posted a cryptic message on X that might be read as referring to Donald Trump.

Esmaeil Baqaei’s post says:

In the Roman mind, Rome was the undisputed center of the world. Yet the Iranians shattered that illusion; when Marcus Julius Philippus (Philip the Arab) marched east against Persia, the campaign did not result in Roman victory — it ended in a peace established on Sasanian terms: the emperor had to come to terms!

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George Russell will start from pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix, the Mercedes driver bouncing back from some issues in Qualifying to storm to the top of the timesheets.

Lando Norris qualified third for the second time this weekend in Canada while Mercedes locked out the front row.