Washington and Tehran negotiate reopening the Strait of Hormuz under the management of Iran and Oman
According to a draft disseminated by Iranian media, the US will withdraw troops "from the area surrounding Iran"
BarcelonaThe Iranian state television and the Mizan agency published details this Wednesday about the draft of the memorandum of understanding that the United States and Iran are negotiating. The document, which is not yet official, establishes that Iran will progressively re-establish commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, with the aim of reaching pre-war levels within a month. The reopening would exclude military ships and the text provides for Iran to manage maritime traffic in cooperation with Oman.
It also provides for the United States to lift the blockade on Iranian ports and to withdraw its troops "from the area surrounding Iran," without clarifying whether this also includes forces deployed in the region or stationed at its bases in the Gulf.
It is planned that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, will hold a cabinet meeting this Thursday. For the moment, however, the White House has assured that the information published by the Iranian media "is not true" and that the memorandum of understanding they have published is "a complete invention." "No one should believe what Iranian state media publish," the US government stated from the White House's rapid response account on X.
This memorandum of understanding would be a first step and if a final agreement is reached within a period of two months, the text would be approved in the form of a binding resolution of the UN Security Council. The Mizan agency described the draft as the "Islamabad proposal," demonstrating the relevant role of Pakistani mediation.
According to this information, the preliminary document leaves out the issue that seemed most relevant to the United States: Iran's nuclear program and its highly enriched uranium reserves, which the US demands be eliminated.
