TEHRAN (Web Desk) - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran and Oman are close to reaching an agreement on establishing a temporary maritime route to facilitate the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Araghchi, negotiations between Tehran and Muscat are ongoing over the establishment of the temporary route, with the two countries now very close to reaching a possible arrangement.
The Iranian foreign minister stressed, however, that the complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would not depend solely on establishing a new maritime route.
He said other conditions would also have to be met.
Among those conditions, Araghchi said, is compensation to Iran for what he described as US violations.
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Araghchi added that progress has been made in the talks between Iran and Oman over the temporary maritime route and that the two sides are close to reaching a final arrangement.
Earlier in the day, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said that re-opening the Strait of Hormuz is not related to Iran-Oman negotiations but conditional on the US accepting Iran's conditions.
A US official on Friday reported progress between Iran and Oman that could soon reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially restoring oil exports that have been disrupted by the five-month-old US war with Iran.
"The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is subject to the specific mechanisms and conditions of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not related to the negotiations between Iran and Oman," Iran's Tasnim news agency cited Guard's spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi as saying.