Iran and Oman have reached agreement on their share of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, but the vital waterway will not be reopened if the US does not accept their conditions, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Iran and Oman have held on-and-off talks for weeks \u200cabout controlling traffic through the strait, which handled one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the war began in February.<\/p>\n
Most shipping has since been shut down, driving global energy prices higher, as Tehran and Washington have tried to assert control over the channel, imposing separate blockades.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran and the country of Oman \u2026 We have been in negotiations with Oman for about a month, and we have reached results that are acceptable to both sides,\u201d Islamic \u2060Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said in comments published by Iranian state media.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these negotiations, agreements have been reached regarding the \u200cshare of each country in the waters of the strait and the share of Iran and Oman in its revenues,\u201d Mohebbi added.<\/p>\n
The IRGC accused the US of seeking to obstruct the negotiations between \u200cIran and Oman and said this had caused the agreement to be delayed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the United States stops obstructing \u2060and returns to the agreement, \u2060we can open the Strait of Hormuz within the framework of the agreement reached \u2026 If the United States does not accept our conditions, the Strait of Hormuz will \u200cnot be opened under any circumstances,\u201d Mohebbi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and Oman have reached agreement on their share of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[8646,11154,9107,359,102,34,361,3884,34026,181,188,509,1219,101,153,1705],"class_list":["post-265663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-agreement","tag-blockade","tag-chinese","tag-gulf","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-islamic","tag-mohebbi","tag-oman","tag-revolutionary-guards","tag-sanctions","tag-strait","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117162258305628893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265663","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=265663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}