New Delhi, July 3 -- DOHA - Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi emerged from Qatar's capital on Wednesday evening and said that by Thursday, a communication channel would be open between Tehran and Washington to record violations of the memorandum of understanding signed in June. The announcement was the most concrete output from two days of indirect talks between American and Iranian negotiators in Doha.

The channel solves a problem that has already occurred. On June 25, a suicide drone launched from Iranian forces struck a cargo vessel 7.5 nautical miles southeast of Dahit, in the IMO-Oman southern Hormuz corridor. The attack suspended United Nations evacuation efforts, produced several exchanges of fire, and triggered an ...