“No one in the world is in favor of the toll system. This cannot happen. It would be unacceptable,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the project
Iran is discussing with Oman how to implement some kind of permanent toll system that formalizes its control of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, in a development that, if materialized, could create obstacles to a deal with the US.
“Iran and Oman need to mobilize all their resources both to provide security services and to manage navigation in the most appropriate way,” Iranian Ambassador to France Mohammad Amin-Nejad said in an interview with Bloomberg in Paris on Wednesday.
The implementation of a charge on the waterway could make a diplomatic agreement unfeasible, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Arab News.
“Nobody in the world is in favor of the toll system. That cannot happen. It would be unacceptable. It would make a diplomatic agreement unworkable if they continued to insist on it. So it is a threat to the world if they tried to do that, and it is completely illegal,” Rubio said.
Rubio expressed this Thursday, 21, the hope that a visit by the head of the Pakistani army to Iran could boost diplomacy towards the end of the war, stating that progress has already been made, according to the Arab News.
