Iranian media pushed back on US President Donald Trump’s claim that an emerging agreement to end the Iran war would include reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying the waterway would remain under Iranian control. Iranian media pushed back on US President Donald Trump’s claim that an emerging agreement to end the Iran war would include reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying the waterway would remain under Iranian control.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that an agreement with Iran had been “largely negotiated” and that final details were being discussed. He said the deal would include reopening the strait, the key route for global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments that Iran has largely restricted since the war began in late February. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed and will be announced shortly,” Trump wrote. He said he had taken part in a call with leaders and officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain, and had also spoken separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump said the call with Netanyahu went “very well.”
But Fars, a semi-state Iranian outlet close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, dismissed Trump’s description as “incomplete and inconsistent with reality.” The outlet said the strait would remain under Tehran’s management under the latest draft text exchanged between the sides. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran’s military command, also rejected Trump’s claim.
“Hormuz will stay fully under Iranian control. We decide who passes, when, and how,” he wrote on X. The dispute points to one of the central tensions in the talks. Iran has effectively restricted the Strait of Hormuz since the war began, rattling global energy markets and increasing pressure on Gulf states and Washington to secure a deal. (Read More)
