{"id":183986,"date":"2026-06-30T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/183986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:16:07","slug":"iran-rejects-frances-proposal-to-demine-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/183986\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran rejects France&#8217;s proposal to demine Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iran&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi has rejected France&#8217;s proposal to demine the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with its allies, saying the operation will be carried out exclusively by the Islamic Republic. <\/p>\n<p>Gharibabadi made the remarks on Monday after French President Emmanuel Macron said that France and Oman had agreed to work together, in coordination with their partners, to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure maritime routes and ensure free and unconditional passage through the strategic waterway, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing Iran&#8217;s English-language <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/06\/29\/771321\/Iran-Strait-Hormuz-demine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Press TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), demining [the strait] will be carried out solely by Iran and not by any other country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy foreign minister also said Iran would not allow any foreign involvement in demining the Strait of Hormuz, citing the current &#8220;sensitive and complex&#8221; situation in the strategically important energy chokepoint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly advise France not to make the situation more complicated with its provocations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi has rejected France&#8217;s proposal to demine the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[50198,1143,382,33400,102,34,7174,55290,101,36],"class_list":["post-183986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-demining","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-gharibabadi","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-mines","tag-straiit-of-hormuz","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116837599247330965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}