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Shafaq News- Tehran
Iran will manage the Strait of Hormuz in cooperation with
Oman and aims to restore commercial shipping traffic to pre-war levels within a
month, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday.
The proposed agreement reportedly includes the withdrawal of
US forces from areas surrounding Iran and the lifting of the naval blockade.
Military vessels are not covered by the draft.
Meanwhile, Major General Nasser Arasteh, deputy head of the
military advisers’ group to Iran’s Supreme Leader, claimed that the US military
presence in the Gulf had “effectively ended,” regardless of whether a war
breaks out. Arasteh argued that any future confrontation would evolve into a
“trans-regional war” stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
He also pointed to a “new reality” in Hormuz, under which no
foreign vessel would be allowed to pass without prior authorization from the
naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Earlier this week, Amir Ebrahim Rasouli, political adviser
to the speaker of Iran’s parliament, said in a TV interview that “Hormuz should
be managed by Iran in cooperation with regional countries,” noting that Tehran called
for greater US “confidence-building measures” and regional control of the strait.
Washington and Tehran are negotiating a draft memorandum of
understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz —through which about 20%
of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies transit— and could help ease
hostilities across several regional theaters, including Lebanon.
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