By EFE
Iran will close again Strait of Hormuz If the United States maintains the naval blockade against it, as the American president announced, donald trump Iranian media reported this Friday.
“If the (US) maritime blockade is maintained it will be considered a ceasefire violation and transit through the Strait of Hormuz will be closed,” indicated the Fars and Tasnim agencies, both linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, citing sources close to the Supreme National Security Council.
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, announced today the reopening of the strategic strait until the end of the ceasefire with the United States next Wednesday, as a result of the beginning of the truce in Lebanon announced on Thursday.
According to Iranian media, The reopening has three conditionssuch as that the ships must coordinate their passage with the Iranian forces, travel along the indicated route and have no ties with enemy countries, that is, the United States and Israel.
The mentioned route consists of one way in and one way out: The first will go from the Sea of Oman northwards, to the island of Larak, and from there to the Persian Gulf, while the second will follow the reverse path.
Shortly after Araqchí’s announcement, Trump announced that your country will maintain the naval blockade to ships entering or leaving Iranian ports until there is an agreement, which he ordered after the failure of last weekend’s talks in Islamabad.
“The Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready for free trade and transit, but the naval blockade will remain in full force and effect as far as Iran is concerned, only until our negotiation with Iran is 100% complete,” he wrote on his Truth Social account.
The end of hostilities in Lebanon was one of the ten conditions of the ceasefire reached by Iran and the United States on the 8th, but Israel continued attacking Lebanese territory Despite this, in bombings in which more than 2,200 people have died, according to the Lebanese authorities.
At the same time, Tehran pledged to allow ships to navigate through Hormuz as part of the agreement with Washington, but in fact ship traffic decreased after the truce came into effect.
Trump said Thursday that does not see it necessary to extend the current ceasefire with Iran because he believes that Washington and Tehran could soon reach a peace agreement.
Keep reading:
- Why the Strait of Hormuz is strategic and how Iran has used it as a pressure tool
- What is happening with the agreement reached by the US and Iran for a ceasefire
