Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz only after receiving compensation for war-related damages, a senior official said.
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, deputy for communications at the Iranian president’s office, said the compensation would be paid under a “new legal regime” based on transit fees.
In a social media post, Tabatabaei also criticised US President Donald Trump, who earlier threatened to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure over the strait’s closure, saying he had “resorted to obscenities and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger”.
#From Al Jazeera