Iran announced on Sunday that it has formally communicated to the United States the conditions under which it would agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that serves as one of the world’s most critical oil shipping lanes. Before the current conflict began, roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas passed through the strait daily, making it a linchpin of global energy markets.
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and lead negotiator in talks with Washington, said on state television that reopening the strait depends entirely on the United States fulfilling commitments he says American officials made during negotiations. “As long as the conditions are not met and the American commitments are not honored, it will be impossible to return to the situation that existed before the negotiations and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” Qalibaf said.
Iran has effectively blocked shipping traffic through the strait since the outbreak of hostilities, a move that has rattled global energy markets given the route’s outsized role in supplying oil to Asia, Europe, and beyond. Tehran has not publicly detailed the specific demands it presented to Washington, leaving open questions about what exactly would need to change for the blockade to end and for tensions in the region to ease.
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