Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei: The agreement between Iran and Oman on the new route has no connection to reopening the Strait of Hormuz or maintaining its closure.

Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei: The agreement between Iran and Oman on the new route has no connection to reopening the Strait of Hormuz or maintaining its closure. The southern route through the Strait of Hormuz has been associated with making the region insecure and harming Iran’s national interests, and Tehran does not accept it. The agreed route will be neither the northern route nor the current southern route. Instead, it will be a new route that both sides mutually agree upon.