US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that progress has been made on an “outline” to open the Strait of Hormuz “without toll” but that would need “full Iranian acceptance and then compliance,” Anadolu reports.
“Some progress has been made, significant progress, although not final progress has been made,” Rubio told reporters in Indian capital New Delhi, referring to ongoing indirect talks between the US and Iran, mediated by Pakistan.
On the Strait of Hormuz, Rubio said: “This is an international waterway. They don’t own it. It’s an international waterway.”
Emphasizing a diplomatic solution, Rubio said the US has “made some progress over the last 48 hours working with our partners in the Gulf region on an outline.”
The outline, he added, “that could ultimately, if it succeeds, leave us not just with a completely open straits — and I mean open straits without tolls — and with addressing some of the key things that underpin what has been Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions in the past.”
