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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - DUBAI — Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but reiterated the United States must meet Tehran’s conditions set out the day before, including compensation for war damages and an end to military threats, before the strategic waterway is reopened.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday an agreement with Oman on the strait was in its "final stages" but reiterated comments made on Saturday that Tehran would not reopen the channel unless the US met certain demands made by Tehran.
The deal with Iran would set out the new shipping lanes to be used once the US fulfils those conditions and the strait is reopened, Iran's Mehr news agency quoted him as saying.
Iran’s security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr on Saturday laid out a list of demands for reopening the strait, including an end to the “war and aggression against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq.”
He also demanded the lifting of a US blockade of Iranian ports, the end of sanctions, the release of frozen assets and compensation for wartime damage, according to remarks reported by the Tasnim news agency.
A US official told Reuters on Friday that Iran and Oman were close to a deal that could pave the way for restoring safe passage through the strait, a major conduit for oil and gas shipping before Iran blocked Hormuz in response to US-Israeli attacks on Tehran that began in late February.
Araghchi denied Iran was negotiating with the United States, saying they were merely “exchanging messages” via intermediaries. He said Tehran will not start them as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June.
US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Axios that Washington was "low-keying" it with Iran. "We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money."
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said their strategy was to maintain the closure “until the enemy accepts all our conditions... the strait is now actually a theater of war for us and not just a waterway.”
"Once the deal is announced to restore commercial shipping without impediments, the United States will lift the blockade of Iranian ports," a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
US actions would be tied to Iran's implementation of its commitments, the official said.
The US comments indicated delicate sequencing toward a deal that sources had told Reuters appeared to be set to give Tehran control over vessel traffic entering the Gulf through the strait.
The comments came as transit through Hormuz has dropped significantly, with Iran targeting ships it accuses of skirting its preferred route through Iranian waters.
The UAE foreign ministry on Saturday condemned what it called a “hostile Iranian attack that targeted a tanker belonging to ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) with a missile while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz, without causing casualties.”
Iranian strikes on Strait of Hormuz shipping have been coupled with increased attacks by its Yemen-based allies, the Houthi rebels, who have targeted ships at another oil chokepoint on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The Yemeni rebel group said they had attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday, two days after Riyadh signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the US-Israeli war Iran.
The Saudi energy ministry said a fire had broken out at the refinery but was later extinguished with no injuries and authorities were dealing with the incident, without giving a cause.
On Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said a ship was hit by a projectile off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire that was extinguished but no casualties. It was unclear whether they were referring to the same ship.
Oman’s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned “repeated attacks on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” without naming Iran.
It also said that “ongoing negotiations regarding navigation arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz are proceeding in a positive and constructive atmosphere,” and urged against any actions that might jeopardize progress.
The previous Iran-US deal, meant to serve as a jumping-off point for negotiations on a permanent settlement, had said Tehran and Muscat would hash out future arrangements for the strait in discussion with other Gulf countries and “in line with the applicable international law.”
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