Iran and Qatar resume maritime trade after an approximately five-month suspension, Iranian state media reports, citing an Iranian commercial attaché in Doha. The report says shipping between Iran’s Dayyer port and Qatar’s Al-Ruwais port restarts following coordination between the Iranian embassy in Doha and Qatari authorities.
The resumption is linked, the report says, to an interim deal between Tehran and Washington signed last month. According to the account, the agreement ends hostilities after a roughly four-month conflict and calls for a return to pre-war maritime traffic across the Gulf. Even with that framework, the reports note that transit into and out of the Gulf remains contested.
The sources also describe the two ports as serving regional trade routes. Dayyer port, located in Iran, has been targeted multiple times during the conflict. The restarted traffic is therefore presented as a step back toward normalised shipping conditions for trade between the two countries, while uncertainties in broader Gulf transit continue.
