Earlier on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said no negotiations with the United States were taking ‌place and ​no meetings were scheduled. The only talks underway, he said, were discussions with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz. It hopes such a strategy will convince the United States and its allies that containing the crisis is more costly than accommodating Iran’s demands over the Strait of Hormuz. He also repeated his assertion that the U.S. Navy had total control over the Strait of Hormuz. “‘The United States Wall of Steel!’