The dispute over the Strait of Hormuz remains unresolved, with Iran maintaining that the strategic waterway will remain closed until its conditions are met.
US Vice-President J D Vance said Iranian officials had indicated that Tehran did not intend to levy a toll on commercial shipping. Iran rejected that characterisation.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the waterway would remain closed pending agreement on its conditions.
Iran and Oman have continued negotiations over possible shipping arrangements.
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most strategically important maritime corridors, making any disruption to commercial movement a matter of wider economic and geopolitical concern.
