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US Envoys Warn Iran Against Charging Strait of Hormuz Transit Fees to Preserve Nuclear Deal
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First reported by Kikar HaShabbat · 6 hours ago
What happened
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner warned Iran that charging fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz could collapse the nuclear deal talks, urging Tehran to consider the greater economic benefits of the agreement over short-term gains from transit fees.
- 01US envoys warned Iran that charging fees in the Strait of Hormuz risks collapsing the nuclear deal talks.
- 02Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner urged Iran to 'think big' about the deal's benefits.
- 03A senior US official said Iran's gains from free oil sales under the deal would far exceed transit fee revenues.
- 04The Strait of Hormuz is a key oil shipping route used by Iran as a leverage point.
- 05Washington views Iran's transit fee demand as extortion threatening the negotiations.
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