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Iran has proposed a deal with the United States to reach an agreement on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war, while delaying negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program to a later stage, Axios reported on April 27, citing an American official and two sources with knowledge of the details.
The offer, reportedly conveyed via Pakistani mediators, comes amid deadlocked talks and as Iran’s leadership fails to present a united stance on the nuclear concessions it is willing to make.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the national security commission in Iran’s parliament, revealed later that the proposal would make the Islamic Republic the authority responsible for the Strait of Hormuz — a checkpoint for 20 percent of global oil and liquid natural gas shipments.
The official told state television that Iranian armed forces are already in control of the strait and are seeking to prohibit the passage of “hostile vessels.”
He also said that the proposed law states that financial gains from the waterway should be only paid in the local rial currency.
Speaking in an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the Iranian proposal is not acceptable to the U.S. or others.
“What they mean by opening the straits is, yes, the straits are open, as long as you coordinate with Iran, get our permission, or we’ll blow you up and you pay us,” Rubio said.
“That’s not opening the straits. Those are international waterways. They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize, a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use them,” he added.
Despite these remarks, U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed the proposal with his top national security aides, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“The meeting may be ongoing, maybe not, but the proposal was being discussed,” she said. “The president’s red lines with respect to Iran have been made very, very clear.”
“I wouldn’t say they were considering it,” Leavitt added, regarding an Iranian suggestion to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for ending the U.S. blockade. “I would say there’s a discussion.”
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that at least seven ships — mainly dry bulk vessels — have crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours.
The number represents a fraction of the average 140 daily passages before the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran on February 28.
U.S. forces have redirected 37 vessels since a blockade was imposed on Iran on April 13, according to the Central Command. Six Iranian tankers returned to Iranian ports and sailed back through Hormuz in recent days with some 10.5 million barrels of oil, according to satellite analysis from TankerTrackers.com cited by Reuters.
All in all, an agreement between the U.S. and Iran remains highly unlikely. The U.S. military is already gearing up for another round of fighting. However, it is possible that Trump will simply leave on the blockade without resuming the war on the Islamic Republic in a bid to break the will of Tehran.
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kinda like venezuela coordinate with us or we’ll blow you out of the water
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iran already has total control of hormuz. no energy energy of shipping is out of range of irans ability to disrupt. sure, smuggling will always exist to some extent as long as profit is there. the globalist currency and colonialist mafia has lost all leverage. if the mafia could possibly control or keep china from energy independence. it will. this is a test to replace middle eastern oil with venezuelan and us monopolies ? is middle east energy considered expendable to the corporations ?
israel is on the chopping block if it can not keep all energy from export ?
the real truth is lost to all common men.
wishful thinking by mullahs, irgc & dum iranian parliamentarians, theyre walking corpses. everythings ready for the next round. the carriers, landing ships are there, the aircraft, tankers, missiles are there. by our underwater drones have located every naval minefield, every iranian fast attack boat hub & coastal antiship launch site. trump has just 1 button to push & the ayatollah regime will come crashing down like a house of cards.
the 1st round didn’t go to well for zio america. 🤣
those walking corpses seem to have an awful lot of life left in them. the amerikunt navy has skedaddled out of iranian waters full steam ahead in panic, terrified to go anywhere near the houthis. trumpy’s little bases are a pile of rubble. the quisling sheikhs are going back to goat herding and selling dirty postcards. the kikenreich is one big bomb site. hezb. is turning s. lebanon into a happy hunting ground and it’s open season on jooz.
meanwhile the irgc is collecting the tolls on hormuz. any more fares please? only a couple of million, only yuan please! have your credit cards ready! contactless accepted! meanwhile trumpy is dodging mossad bullets again. better watch your back, donny!
‘axios’ being quoted !
nothing to see here.
test test test
3 hillbillies want full control over my mulatto trained anuz
i want full control over our own governments without the jews controlling everything. the war against iran was started by netanyahu and israel so he can have greater israel at the expense of everyone in the middle east and west. its time we stop letting the kikes getting away with everything and free palestine from polish and ukranian khazarian setler vermin
iran could establish rules with its neighbors for transit that would be more just and equally enforced than what the us does everywhere else in the world.
the great hypocrite us does what it wants around the world or bombs. anything iran would establish could be no worse and realistically would be better and more estabalizing for the world. the us has no moral superiority at this point, except in its own despodic mind.