Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority rejected claims by U.S. officials that the Strait of Hormuz had reopened. The authority made the statement in a social media post on Wednesday.
The body responsible for maritime traffic in the strait said U.S. statements did not match the actual situation. It declared that the waterway remained blocked.
In its post, the Persian Gulf Strait Authority stated: “Claims and repeated posts by U.S. officials that the Strait of Hormuz is no longer blocked do not change the reality. The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran’s conditions are accepted.”
The remarks followed a claim by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier on Wednesday. Trump said the United States maintained total control of the strait and would keep it. He described the U.S. naval presence as a wall of steel and said Iran lacked the ability to challenge it.
Meanwhile, Mohsen Rezaei, the newly appointed secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, addressed the issue on Tuesday. He said the strait would stay closed unless the United States changed its behaviour and accepted Iran’s demands.
Rezaei stated that the United States must end the war, pay Iran’s frozen assets and ensure the conflict ends across the region, including in Lebanon and Gaza. He added that Iran had already conveyed its other conditions to the United States through mediators.
Iran’s joint military command also rejected U.S. assertions of normal vessel passage. It described those claims as lies and falsehoods. The command insisted that no vessel could transit the strait without Tehran’s permission.
The exchange continued long-running tensions over the strategic waterway, which carries a major share of global oil and gas shipments.
