Top official says Iran, Oman have agreed new temporary route in Hormuz
Kazem Gharibabadi says Iran and Oman had agreed the route’s entry would run through Iranian territorial waters, with part of the exit also passing through them. A top Iranian official says Iran and Oman have agreed on a new temporary route for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, but insisted that the waterway will not reopen until the United States fulfils its commitments under an interim peace deal signed in June.
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- Fact 1: The transit corridor would be seven miles (11.3km) wide, he said.
- Fact 2: It then announced a new shipping route through its territorial waters, bypassing the internationally recognised Traffic Separation Scheme adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 1968.
Kazem Gharibabadi says Iran and Oman had agreed the route’s entry would run through Iranian territorial waters, with part of the exit also passing through them. A top Iranian official says Iran and Oman have agreed on a new temporary route for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, but insisted that the waterway will not reopen until the United States fulfils its commitments under an interim peace deal signed in June.
The remarks by Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, came on Tuesday, after Iran and Oman’s top diplomats held talks in Tehran to finalise the details of a phased framework for managing the strait. Sanctions or missiles? How Gulf will view Trump’s new Iran approach Iran, Oman discuss temporary shipping lane through Strait of Hormuz Iran and Oman, both coastal nations on the strait, have been in on-and-off talks for weeks about controlling traffic through the strategic waterway, which handled one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the US-Israel war on Tehran began in February.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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