Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on a new framework for managing ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz that would exclude military vessels, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state TV late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The top diplomats of the two countries met to discuss managing commercial shipping traffic in the vital waterway, which remains largely shut down nearly six months after the Iran war began.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the understanding becomes binding, no military vessel will be permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said. \u201cNo military vessel at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gharibabadi didn\u2019t provide further details about military traffic. He described the proposed commercial route through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Traffic into the Persian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman would pass entirely through Iranian waters, while the outbound route would pass partly through Iranian waters and partly through Oman\u2019s territorial waters, he said.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration told Oman it opposed parts of the evolving deal, including the joint Iranian and Omani management of the exit route out of the passage that\u2019s critical to global supplies of oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump last week threatened to bomb Oman if it \u201cgets in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on a new framework for managing ship traffic in the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[5471,5479,5481,5472,5478,656,559,42,5477,39,81,677,5475],"class_list":["post-265533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-international","tag-app-national-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-international","tag-news","tag-nnt","tag-persian-gulf","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-us-and-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117161888507201847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265533","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=265533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}