In this article @LCO.1@CL.1 Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTIranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2, 2025. That's theater diplomacy on loop," Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker and top negotiator, wrote in a post on X on Thursday in an apparent gibe at Trump. The conflict is meanwhile broadening across the region, with Gulf energy infrastructure and key shipping choke points under renewed threat. The warning came a day after the Houthis claimed responsibility for attacks on two Saudi oil tankers in the Gulf of Aden, another critical shipping choke point. Shipping through the region's two critical choke points has fallen sharply in recent days.