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- Iran won’t reopen Strait of Hormuz until US meets its demands to end war
- Tehran says ships will be expected to pay for transit through the narrow waterway
Keep reading for the latest developments in the war in Iran and wider conflict in the Middle East from Monday, August 10.
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Skip next section Iran demands concessions from US before reopening Strait of Hormuz08/10/2026August 10, 2026
Iran demands concessions from US before reopening Strait of Hormuz
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the United States met its conditions.
“It is up to the US side to stop and make amends for its illegal and destructive actions,” Esmail Baghaei said Monday.
What are Iran’s demands on the US?
In a statement over the weekend, a member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and Revolutionary Guards commander said Tehran had the following demands of the US:
- Never to threaten Iran again
- Pay compensation for months of war damage
- Permanently end its war against Iran and its allies in the region, namely Lebanese militants Hezbollah; Houthi rebels in Yemen; and Hamas in the Gaza Strip
- Lift its blockade of Iranian ports and ships in the Strait of Hormuz and pull its military out of the area
- Lift sanctions and release frozen Iranian assets
The impasse over the Strait of Hormuz has led to a global jump in fuel prices.
Iran is holding talks with Oman over transit through the strait, including a possible temporary shipping corridor, but it has said any actual reopening depends on negotiations with the United States.
On Sunday, however, US President Donald Trump said the US not engaged in major talks with Iran.
“We are low-keying it,” he said, according to US media outlet Axios. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”
Trump also expressed his optimism that a satisfactory conclusion would eventually be reached.
“It will work out. It always works out. It’s like a chess game,” he said of the war.
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Tehran: Ships will be expected to pay for transit through the narrow waterway
Iran has said it intends to charge commercial vessels for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a statement Monday from the Foreign Ministry.
Iranian media cited spokesperson Esmail Baghaei as saying that Iran was working with Oman on “mechanisms for monitoring security, protecting the environment and combating crime at sea.”
Fees would be for maritime services provided to ships, he explained.
The dispute over transit rights in the strait, through which some 20% of the world’s oil passed before the war and which is a key route for gas and fertilizer, is regarded as a key reason behind the continuation of the war against Iran.
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Before the United States and Israel launched the conflict against Iran at the end of February, shipping through the waterway did no incur tolls nor fees for transit.
The Strait of Hormuz measures only around 39 kilometers (24 miles) at its narrowest point.
Since Iran and Oman each claim the maximum 12 nautical miles allowed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as their territorial waters, there are no international waters in the narrowest part of the roughly 21-nautical-mile-wide strait.
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea guarantees a right of transit passage and prohibits a blockade of commercial vessels. Iran, however, does not accept this legal position.
The US goal is to restore pre-war levels of oil and gas transit through the Strait of Hormuz, US Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday.
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Welcome to our coverage
Sean Sinico | Rebecca Staudenmaier Editor
Hello from the DW newsroom in Bonn, Germany, and to our coverage of the war in Iran and developments from across the Middle East.
One issue we’ll be looking at today is a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry that it intends to charge commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with a still-unreached agreement with Oman on the future management of the narrow waterway.
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