IRAN and the Untied States have not reached an agreement on the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's media reported on Wednesday, citing Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Bagheri said Iran and Oman are currently negotiating a new mechanism governing the ship transit through the strategic waterway, while indirect contacts between Iran and United States are continuing.
He also stressed that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is "not on the agenda" of the ongoing negotiations.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Wednesday that a total of 23 ships transited the Strait of Hormuz within the past 24 hours after obtaining permission from its forces.
The vessels, including oil tankers, as well as containers and commercial ships, crossed the waterway in coordination with and under the protection of IRGC forces, the navy said in a statement published on the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Central Command said that 109 commercial vessels had been redirected since the United States started the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz on April 13.
On Feb 28, Israel and the United States launched joint attacks on Tehran and several other Iranian cities, killing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders and civilians. Iran responded by launching waves of missile and drone strikes targeting Israel and U.S. assets in the Middle East, and exercising control over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
