{"id":34754,"date":"2026-08-09T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34754"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:37:01","slug":"iran-sets-out-steep-demands-for-reopening-hormuz-despite-hopes-oman-deal-could-break-impasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34754","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets out steep demands for reopening Hormuz despite hopes Oman deal could break impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2026-08\/260809-iran-nd-0c684e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-768bb6\" class=\"body-graf\">There are no ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday, after Tehran set out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/iran-says-deal-strait-hormuz-close-will-not-open-waterway-rcna591476\" target=\"_blank\">steep series of demands<\/a> for the reopening of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/flurry-diplomacy-gulf-nations-seek-iran-deal-reopen-strait-hormuz-rcna591111\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e08994\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cThe intermediaries are still making efforts to find ways to resume negotiations,\u201d Araghchi said. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-09d665\" class=\"body-graf\">He tempered optimism stirred by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/iran\" target=\"_blank\"> Iran<\/a>\u2019s separate discussions with Oman over the future management of the waterway, saying that \u201cchanges to maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz are a technical and legal matter and do not mean that the Strait of Hormuz has been reopened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-226d3d\" class=\"body-graf\">Araghchi\u2019s statement came a day after top Iranian security official Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr laid out the country\u2019s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying it would not do so \u201cuntil America corrects its behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d42e2d\" class=\"body-graf\">The Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary\u2019s statement, as carried out by Iranian state media, stated that the U.S. must withdraw its naval blockade, pay Iran damages for the war, unfreeze Iranian assets, lift sanctions on Tehran and permanently end the conflict against Iran and its regional allies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-831e7c\" class=\"body-graf\">The U.S. is yet to respond publicly to the list of conditions. Top officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/live-blog\/live-updates-trump-iran-deal-end-war-reopen-hormuz-markets-israel-rcna350076\" target=\"_blank\">have previously ruled out<\/a> making any immediate payments to Iran during past efforts to seal a deal to end the war.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-51d3ee\" class=\"body-graf\">The country\u2019s enriched uranium stockpile has also been a sticking thorn for Washington, which insists Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/trump-iran-war-deal-strait-hormuz-deal-oman-rcna590920\" target=\"_blank\"> stalled negotiations<\/a> have left the Strait of Hormuz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/data-graphics\/strait-of-hormuz-ports-traffic-trump-us-iran-war-rcna331507\" target=\"_blank\">largely inoperational for months<\/a>, save for brief periods of operation. Thousands of sailors remain stranded in the region, unable to return home or keep the world\u2019s supply of oil flowing. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5b7469\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re really working through now is how you can actually set up a traffic scheme so that the ships that pass can pass through safely,\u201d Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Saturday. That scheme, Vance said, would include demining efforts and also assurances from Tehran that it would not fire on transiting vessels.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-fd8b01\" class=\"body-graf\">On Saturday, Oman condemned attacks on the vessels that were attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fmofoman\/status\/2086089489416683916?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">statement <\/a>that such attacks could affect its negotiations with Iran over the waterway\u2019s management. The UAE and Kuwait on Saturday also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OFMUAE\/status\/2086168807350194687?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">condemned <\/a>an Iranian missile attack on a Abu Dhabi National Oil Company tanker.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-25e2a7\" class=\"body-graf\">Oman nonetheless said its discussions with Iran were \u201cproceeding in a positive and constructive atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-702cd5\" class=\"body-graf\">Iran and Oman, neighbors across the Strait of Hormuz, have been negotiating an agreement on how to manage traffic through the waterway, including considerations of a toll fee. The discussions have also been viewed optimistically, raising hopes that it could finally led to the waterway being open. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-dd38a1\" class=\"body-graf\">But Iranian officials have dismissed any link between the talks and the waterway\u2019s opening. Iran\u2019s discussions with Oman \u201cdoes not mean the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Araghchi said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d6f297\" class=\"body-graf\">Iranian state media on Sunday reported that President Masoud Pezeshkian had met with the country\u2019s absent Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, discussing \u201cthe war and the future ahead.\u201d No evidence was provided that the meeting took place.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9d63bd\" class=\"body-graf\">Pezeshkian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/irans-president-difficult-contact-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-rcna591110\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this week said <\/a>that it had been \u201cvery difficult\u201d to contact the 56-year-old leader, who has not been seen publicly since he was badly injured in the U.S. strikes that killed his father. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-0bb63f\" class=\"body-graf\">Meanwhile, the Iran-allied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/yemen\/houthis-strike-marib-un-warns-yemen-nearing-wider-conflict-rcna591445\" target=\"_blank\">Houthi rebels in Yemen again attacked Saudi Arabia <\/a>on Sunday, with its news agency saying the forces targeted the Mocha port along the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/middle-east\/another-hormuz-know-houthi-threat-red-sea-rcna590663\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sea<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2275df\" class=\"body-graf\">The Houthis have launched several attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent days, also hitting a Saudi Aramco oil refinery in the port city of Jizan with a drone. It said Sunday that the attack on the refinery was in response to Saudi drones\u2019 incursions into Saada and Hajjah airspaces of Yemen. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b52d10\" class=\"body-graf\">The Saudi energy ministry<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MoEnergy_Saudi\/status\/2086264025185243338?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"> said on X Sunday<\/a> that the fire that broke out at the refinery had been extinguished and nobody was injured. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6d0785\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">The world\u2019s top oil exporter, Aramco, is seeking to reroute some of the oil exports to the Red Sea instead of the Persian Gulf in an effort to circumvent the shuttered Strait of  Hormuz. 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