Iran has not sought talks with US over past two weeks, official says
Reuters Iran has not sought negotiations with the United States over the past two weeks and will not relinquish control of the Hormuz Strait, a senior Iranian official said yesterday, hours before the country launched a fresh round of missile attacks against US bases in Jordan.
Control of the Strait of Hormuz has become a key issue in the conflict between Iran and the United States, which has insisted that freedom of navigation must be restored through the critical waterway, through which more than one-fifth of the world’s oil is normally carried.
US warships were not allowed to come near the Strait, he said, because demining the sea-lanes was Iran’s responsibility according to the Memorandum of Understanding signed last month.
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