Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister declared that Tehran will carry out demining operations in the Strait of Hormuz unilaterally, calling the situation complex and warning France not to complicate it with provocations.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister stated on Monday evening that Tehran will unilaterally handle the demining of the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that the waterway is exclusively Iranian and warning France against any provocations. The remark frames the strait as Iran’s sole domain and signals rejection of any multinational or Western-led clearance effort.
The statement follows weeks of competing claims over the strait’s status, as The Zioneer has previously reported: Iran has declared the waterway closed, threatened to attack vessels attempting transit, and linked reopening to Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and broader U.S. regional pullback. Western officials, including a senior U.S. figure, have described a framework deal that would reopen the strait without tolls, with demining deferred to a later phase. Tehran’s latest unilateral assertion appears to preempt that framework and directly rebuff any French or European role in the operation.
The Iranian deputy minister’s warning is attributed to state-linked media only; no independent confirmation of the demining scope or timeline has been published. The claim remains Developing.
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