Iran expects an agreement establishing a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz to be signed in the coming days, but will not commit to fully reopening the strategic waterway unless the United States halts attacks and other hostile actions, the country’s top security official said on Sunday.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told state TV that entry and exit through the planned corridor would be managed by Tehran.
Iran and Oman have been negotiating arrangements for a temporary shipping corridor through the strait, with sections of the route running through Iranian and Omani waters. The talks are part of diplomatic efforts to restore maritime traffic through a waterway that carried roughly one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the war began in February.
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Rezaei said Tehran would only guarantee that the strait remained open if the US refrained from attacks and what he described as acts of sabotage.
