Iran closed the strait shortly after US-Israeli bombing of Iran began at the end of February.
Iran has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, saying the strategic waterway will remain closed until the US accepts its demands and changes its “behaviour”.
According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Mohsen Rezaie, the newly appointed head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told China’s ambassador to Tehran, Cong Peiwu: “As long as America does not change its behaviour and does not accept Iran’s conditions, the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened.”
The Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of global oil and natural gas is shipped during peacetime, has emerged as a major flashpoint in the US-Israel war on Iran, with peace talks stalled over the question of the waterway’s management.
Iran closed the strait shortly after US-Israeli bombing of Iran began at the end of February.
