The Revolutionary Guards will not reopen Hormuz until every one of Tehran's conditions is met

The Guards said on 9 August that the closure holds until the enemy accepts all our conditions, and that the strait is now a theatre of war rather than a waterway. Security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr had set out the demands the day before: an end to the war against Iran and its allies, the lifting of the US counterblockade of Iranian ports, an end to sanctions, the release of frozen assets and compensation for war damage. Foreign Minister Araghchi says talks with Oman on the strait are approaching their final stages but that reopening depends on those conditions.

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