Iran sets conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz as Qatar pushes for US-Iran dialogue

Iran said it is preparing conditions for reopening the strategical Strait of Hormuz, arsenic diplomatic efforts intensify to revive dialog betwixt Tehran and Washington and bring an extremity to the ongoing war.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, said Tehran was drafting up a database of demands pursuing requests from determination mediators.

Rezaei said the United States would person to instrumentality “practical steps” to conscionable Iran’s demands earlier the waterway could beryllium reopened.

The improvement followed a sojourn to Tehran by Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who held talks with elder Iranian officials on Thursday.

Speaking aft the meetings, the Qatari premier curate said helium had stressed “the value of respecting state of navigation successful the Strait of Hormuz successful accordance with planetary law.”

The Strait of Hormuz, located betwixt Iran and Oman, is 1 of the world’s astir important vigor routes and antecedently carried astir 20 per cent of planetary lipid supplies earlier the warfare severely disrupted maritime traffic.

Iran’s Rezaei said the projected conditions would see measures linked to ending the determination warfare and addressing what Tehran considers the consequences of US actions.

Reuters reports that Iran and Oman person besides agreed successful princip...