US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Washington and Tehran have yet to finalize talks on passage through crucial international waterways, but he hopes an agreement will come “very shortly.”
Following reports and senior US officials’ remarks that both sides are close to reaching a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Rubio told reporters at the State Department that “there's been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet.”
“We're hoping that will happen very shortly,” he said.
Claiming that some commercial vessels have been able to transit despite efforts to block their passages, Rubio said that nonetheless, “there's a conversation and a negotiation that we are involved in between Oman and Iran on how more ships can be able to go through there safely in the short term.”
“There's oil moving right now through the straits. So, the straits are open,” he said, appearing to refer to the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb waterway between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, after Yemen’s Houthi group threatened vessels linked to Saudi Arabian ports.
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Estados Unidos podría concretar un acuerdo con Irán en los próximos dos días que permitiría normalizar el tránsito marítimo por el estrecho de Ormuz, declaró el secretario del Tesoro del país norteamericano, Scott Bessent.
ReplyDelete"Estamos negociando con los iraníes y existe la posibilidad de que cerremos un acuerdo hoy o mañana para abrir el estrecho de Ormuz y avanzar hacia una posición más normalizada en este conflicto", afirmó en una entrevista con la cadena CNBC.
El alto cargo destaca que el consenso garantizaría la libertad de navegación a través de esta vía fluvial.