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Iran has criticized the United States for trying to force the opening of a new route through the Strait of Hormuz, bypassing Iranian authorities, which it says violates the peace agreement between the two countries and increases tensions.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said this in an interview with Iranian media on Saturday. US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June it gives Tehran the right to set up the waterways and waterways.
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Araghchi said Washington should discuss any new measures with Tehran, adding that the two sides agreed to open a dialogue to resolve such disputes.
Araghchi’s comments came amid signs of an easing of tensions between the U.S. and Iran, after weeks of strikes that contradicted each other’s interests but damaged their long-standing alliance.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, from Tehran, said it was not a “direct attack” and the US on major Iranian cities overnight Saturday, a break from nearly two straight weeks of nighttime strikes.
“Iran had a peaceful night,” the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Health, Hossein Kermanpour, said in a tweet on X.
‘Willing to listen’
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump appeared to soften an earlier threat of new “terrorist” attacks on Iran, saying it would not be necessary.
“They (Iranian officials) are talking to us right now; they would like to make a deal,” Trump said Friday night. “I don’t think they’re ready…but I’m willing to listen.”
Iranian officials have confirmed to Al Jazeera that the US and Iran are exchanging messages.
“There have been proposals made by mediators, and Tehran is still evaluating them,” Serdar said.
However, he said that “there is no significant progress”, referring to the “big differences” in their positions and the big “mistrust”.
Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a in the middle of an argument between the US and Iran.
Iran says it has the right to monitor passage through the strait under the MoU, order vessels to cooperate with its authorities and use designated routes. The US opposes this interpretation and has repeatedly said that Iran is not controlling the problem.
‘Hot and cold ways’
It’s the Iranian military attack ships Accusing them of “violating” their plans for the crisis, the US military has resumed its blockade of Iranian ports.
On Friday, US Central Command spokesman Tim Hawkins told Al Jazeera that the US had “stopped” a tank that had repeatedly tried to breach the US border and ignored US warnings.
On Thursday, the US military said it had intercepted a total of 12 ships and “disabled” others since resuming the blockade on July 14.
Former Austrian Defense Secretary Wolfgang Pusztai said the US is using all kinds of strategies with Iran, including negotiations, economic pressure through its blockade and military action.
“All three are united to achieve the goals of the United States.” This means, first of all, right now the opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” Pusztai told Al Jazeera.
“There is a hot and cold way to advance the desire, the desire of the Iranian people to end all war.” So one night they are bombed, the other night they are not bombed.
Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen have also joined the conflict, disrupting traffic on another important shipping route, the Bab al-Mandeb route.
The Saudi-led Coalition Joint Forces Command on Friday said it was attacking the Houthi Yemeni city of Hodeidah, saying all the targets bombed “are linked to attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea”.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia Civil Defense said sirens sounded several times in the provinces of Yanbu and Jizan, which are home to important oil fields on the Red Sea. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said that the group carried out an attack on a joint venture with the Saudi oil company Aramco in the area.
Saudi state security said the sirens were the result of a “threat” that was later removed, without giving further details.
