The regime's failure to locate the explosives - which it laid 'haphazardly' - may be to blame for the delay in Tehran opening the shipping lane to more vessels, sources added.
After 40 days and 40 nights of fighting in the Middle East, both sides claimed victory as they entered into a fragile two-week ceasefire, the durability of which is still highly uncertain.
Iraq's parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi as president, five months after a parliamentary election that didn't produce a decisive majority.