Trump: "Hormuz is open". Iran receives the release of funds and the stop of sanctions

The American administration of Donald Trump has temporarily suspended the oil sanctions against theIranallowing a Teheran to increase exports and sell crude oil at market prices after years in which it had been forced to offer discounts to buyers willing to risk American economic restrictions. The decision came after the first day of peace talks in Swiss Between United States e Iran. The Treasury Department has issued a 60-day license authorizing the production, delivery and sale of Iranian oil as part of the preliminary agreement signed last week by Washington e Teheran.

Furthermore, as the Iranian chief negotiator said, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibafspeaking at Muscat“yesterday in Swiss agreement was reached to release 12 billion dollars Iranian funds frozen“. He further explained: “We agreed in Swiss a line of communication regarding the Strait of Hormuz to avoid any conflict.”

Trump’s statements

On the progress of negotiations also intervenes Donald Trump. “We are doing very well as far as the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday we received more oil than has ever passed through the Strait”, declares the American president speaking from the White House. “The Strait is completely open, you know, and we are negotiating, we will see how it will end, but we have two things: we have an open Strait and we have a country that will never have a nuclear weapon,” he adds.

Vance’s role and inspections

The American vice president JD Vance defined i negotiations an “excellent basis” for a lasting agreement to put an end to guerra started in February by United States and from Israel. The truce signed last week provides 60 days to reach an agreement, with the possibility of extending the deadline. Second Vance, Teheran he would also have agreed to allow the return of the United Nations inspectors on the sites Iranian nuclear weapons.

“The Iranians are allowing weapons inspectors, nuclear inspectors, into their country for the first time in a long time,” he said. However, the question was presented differently Teheran. The spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaitold state media that theIran has not made “new commitments” on the nuclear inspections and that any relationship with the inspectors of theDebt will take place “according to existing procedures”. The president Donald Trump instead claimed the result as a clear success, writing in Truth that theIran “will accept major weapons inspections.”

The previous nuclear agreement

The return of the inspectors dell’International Atomic Energy Agency and the suspension of sanctions resume some central elements of thenuclear agreement of the era Obamafrom which Trump he withdrew in 2018. That precedent shows the complexity of the negotiation path opened in Swiss.

Regional tensions and developments

L’Iran had begun to limit the inspections to their plants nuclear after the American withdrawal from the 2015 agreement and almost completely stopped them last year, after some sites were hit by attacks Americans and Israelis. Teheran has long maintained that its own nuclear program has civil purposes. The heads of the two delegations, Vance and the president of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibafthey left the Swiss after a marathon negotiation that began on Sunday and was mediated by Qatar e Pakistan. The mediators spoke of “encouraging progress”. Vance explained that new ones have been established communication channels to reduce tensions in Strait of Hormuz and in Lebanondove Israel e Hezbollah they seem to have toned down their mutual attacks. Both dossiers complicated the fragile cease-fire Between United States e Iran. “It’s a work in progress,” he said Vanceadding that the new trial on Lebanon it will serve to ensure that the situation “does not spiral out of control again in the future”.

Frozen funds and nuclear node

The question of frozen Iranian assetsone of the central demands of Teheran. Vance outlined a proposal for a possible unlocking at a later stage, while the governor of Iran’s central bank said that the “memorandum necessary” to start the release of the funds. However, the American vice president has hinted that there is not yet a final agreement on this point. On the Strait of Hormuzil maritime traffic rose over the weekend, although remaining well below pre-war levels. Vance he insisted that the strait “is open” to commercial shippingdespite the confusion generated by the Iranian announcement of a new closure in response to the fighting in Lebanon. The most delicate dossier, that of Iranian nuclear program and stocks of enriched uraniumwas instead postponed. Until now Teheran it only reiterated its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian however, he declared on Sunday that theIran he will “never retreat” from his right to enrich himself uranium.