Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, has announced that the Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened until the United States accepts six conditions set by Tehran.
Iran’s supreme national security council published the conditions on the social media platform X on Saturday evening, 17 Asad. According to the statement, Tehran has made the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz conditional on the fulfillment of a set of its demands.
The six conditions announced by Zolghadr are the lifting of sanctions, an end to the maritime blockade, payment of war reparations, the release of Iran’s frozen assets, an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq, and an end to threats against Iran.
Previously, these demands formed part of a 14-point framework known as the “Islamabad Memorandum,” which Iran had proposed as a basis for reaching a final agreement on a permanent end to the war and the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The United States had also agreed to some elements of the framework.
The presentation of these demands as preconditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz could now affect efforts to reach a potential new agreement between Tehran and Washington an agreement that U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken about.
Despite accusing Iran’s leaders of “hypocrisy,” Trump said last week that negotiations with Tehran were still underway to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Meanwhile, Iran and Oman have recently reached an agreement under which the two countries will jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz for a period and charge commercial vessels for the services they provide.
Writer:Salima Aryaei
