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Iran to Discuss Strait of Hormuz with Gulf States on Monday
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In Short: Iran will meet with Gulf states in Oman on Monday to discuss the security of the Strait of Hormuz, according to the country's Foreign Ministry.
Iran is expected to meet with Gulf states in Oman on Monday to discuss the security of the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced. The meeting, which aims to promote better understanding among the countries of the region, will involve foreign ministers from the GCC countries and Iraq, according to reports.
For several weeks, Iran and Oman have been discussing how to manage the future of the strategic waterway, which has been disrupted by Iran’s retaliatory measures following US-Israeli strikes in February.
Since the US and Israel launched the war in February, the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of world oil supplies flow, has been a focal point of tension, with Iran choking off the strait in retaliation.
The meeting in Oman is part of Iran’s broader strategy to involve regional actors in resolving issues related to the Strait of Hormuz, as highlighted by Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who stated that Iran remains committed to ensuring the security of navigation in the strait.
What's confirmed
- Iran is expected to meet with Gulf states in Oman on Monday to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced.
What's still developing
- Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu explained that Iran is giving the Strait of Hormuz talks a “wider political spectrum” by inviting other regional countries.
- “For some time we heard Iranian officials say that the regional issues should be solved by the regional actors, especially when it came to Hormuz,” she said.
- “Iran has been subjected to heavy sanctions in recent years; this pressure has reached a critical and dangerous stage in recent months following the military aggression by the United States and Israel,” he said.
- “The people of Israel stand with the people of the United States and with President Trump in confronting the forces of terror. In the year ahead, we will continue to make the world safer for all,” Netanyahu wrote on X.
- “We salute the service members working right now to ensure the world’s number one sponsor of terror, the Islamist Republic of Iran, will never, ever have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
- The statement comes amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington in recent days over the Strait of Hormuz, despite a memorandum signed in June that envisaged an agreement to reopen the strategic waterway as a prelude to a broader peace deal.