Tehran says presidents signing US-Iran MoU under consideration

Three-quarters of cyberattacks targeting Britain's critical infrastructure can be linked to hostile state actors, head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre Richard Horne said on Wednesday.

Horne said the NCSC had dealt with 200 incidents involving critical infrastructure and supporting systems in the year to May 2026.

He warned that hostile states such as Russia, China and Iran were increasingly targeting systems that underpin essential services.

“Every board member and every executive, in every organisation” had to strengthen cyber resilience, Horne said, warning that vulnerabilities not addressed today could be exploited in a future conflict.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday said it had been agreed to return maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz to normal in a certain period of time.

Esmail Baghaei added that Iran and Oman would develop a mechanism for the strait and that Tehran would exchange views with other countries when necessary.

Baghaei said the United States must end its maritime blockade on Iran within 30 days.

A senior US official said Iran and the United States can still walk away from the memorandum of understanding due to be signed on Friday and that upcoming talks would likely focus on the sequencing of steps outlined in the preliminary accord.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official read out the 14-point memorandum that is due to be formally signed in Switzerland.

“I think the meeting in Switzerland will be quite critical in order to really see how we get to the next phase,” the official told reporters on Wednesday.

The official said the Switzerland meeting would be critical to determining whether the memorandum of understanding can evolve into a comprehensive agreement.

The document, as read out by the official, was similar to the 14-point memorandum that several media outlets had reported on earlier in the day.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Wednesday it received a report of an incident 105 nautical miles northeast of Yemen's Aden, adding that the crew were safe.

“A vessel has been approached to within 4 meters and fired upon by 2 skiffs with an unknown number of armed persons on board,” UKMTO said.

“The vessel has deployed security team and returned fire. The suspect vessels have now disengaged,” it added.

US President Donald Trump said Iran should be allowed to retain some missiles and said the United States would work with Persian Gulf nations on non-nuclear issues, including ballistic missiles and Tehran's "terrorist proxies."

“We’ll be working on a parallel effort with the (Persian) Gulf nations to address non-nuclear issues, such as the conventional ballistic missiles,” Trump said.

“They have to have some, because other people have some. You gotta have some,” he added.

“There are people around me who say they shouldn’t even have one missile. I asked: what exactly do you suggest? That Saudi Arabia can have missiles and Iran cannot? It just doesn’t work that way,” Trump said.

“We’ll talk also about the terrorist proxies that they have... We don’t want that to happen,” Trump added.