CONDITIONS LAID OUT:
The demands include the lifting of the US’ blockade of Iran, release of frozen assets and an end to the aggression against Iran and its allies
Iran on Saturday set preconditions for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages, complicating a potential deal to open the waterway essential to the world economy.Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said discussions with Oman over transit and management of the strait were “approaching the final stages,” but added that the reopening of Hormuz “is subject to other conditions and compensation for the violation” of the June agreement.Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr laid out a list of demands for reopening the strait, including an end to the “war and aggression against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq.”
People spend time at a beach as vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Wednesday.
He also demanded the lifting of a parallel US naval blockade of Iran, the end of sanctions, the release of frozen assets and compensation for wartime damage, the Tasnim News Agency reported. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Hormuz’s reopening had “nothing to do with the negotiations between Iran and Oman,” adding that the “enemy is forced to accept Iran’s conditions for the opening of the strait.”
