A senior US official told Sky News on Tuesday evening that no tolls will be collected on the temporary routes in the Strait of Hormuz, and no transit permits will be required. The statement adds a new detail to the ongoing US-Iran negotiations over the strategic waterway.
A senior US official told Sky News on Tuesday evening that no tolls will be collected on the temporary routes in the Strait of Hormuz, and no transit permits will be required. The statement adds specificity to the emerging framework, which has been the subject of weeks of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
The Zioneer has previously reported on the US position regarding Hormuz tolls. On July 28, a senior American official stated that the emerging agreement would not include transit fees. Earlier, on July 29, another US official told Reuters that Iran was overreaching in its demands and that the agreement was a coordination agreement only, without tolls. The issue of the temporary routes—reportedly established to resume traffic during the diplomatic process—had not been publicly addressed before this statement.
The statement to Sky News reaffirms the US insistence that the Strait remain free of Iranian-imposed fees, a position President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have both articulated. The temporary routes are understood to be part of the de-escalation measures, though the full details of the agreement remain under negotiation.
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