Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the country’s position on the strait did not meet U.S. demands
The President of the United States, Donald Trumprejoined this Monday (27) with his top security advisors to analyze an Iranian proposal that, according to local media reports, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz while war negotiations continue, the White House said.
When asked about the plan — which would involve both Iran and the United States lifting their blockades before continuing talks on Tehran’s nuclear program — spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told a White House briefing that “the proposal was being discussed“.
“Just because it was released, I confirm that the president met with his national security team this morning,” he said. She refused to say whether Trump would accept the proposal.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz did not meet US demands. The strait is a key shipping lane through which about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas normally passes.
“If what they mean by opening the strait is, ‘yes, the strait is open as long as you coordinate with Iran and get our permission or we will blow you up and still pay us,’ that’s not opening the strait,” Rubio said in an interview with Fox News.
“They cannot normalize — nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize — a system in which Iranians decide who can use an international waterway and how much you have to pay to use it,” he said.
American outlet Axios had previously reported that Trump would meet with his national security team to consider an offer from Iran on reopening the strait and postponing nuclear negotiations to a later stage.
ABC News, citing two American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported in turn that the agreement did not meet the red lines drawn by Washington.
Leavitt told reporters that “the president’s red lines on Iran have been made very, very clear, not just to the American public, but to them as well.”
