Iran said it has reached an agreement with Oman over a plan for ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, which runs between the countries, and the sides are now working to finalize details for a joint statement.<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran that \u201can understanding has been reached regarding the map of the transit route.\u201d<\/p>\n
He did not elaborate, but details that have previously emerged suggest the deal would reopen the strait with ships entering through a route close to Iran and exiting through a route close to Oman. Ships would transit without paying fees or tolls during an interim period.<\/p>\n
The US has sought an acceptable deal on opening the strait before ending its blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n
Iran effectively closed the strait \u2014 through which roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s traded oil supplies passed before the war \u2014 after Israel and the US attacked the country on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
Baghaei conceded the talks with Oman have gone slowly, \u201cbut we had planned, and still plan, to finalize the understanding in the form of a package: the map plus a joint statement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran said it has reached an agreement with Oman over a plan for ships to transit the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,196,101,15823,480],"class_list":["post-252850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-iran-ceasefire","tag-west-asia-conflict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117111376185149538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252850","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=252850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}