Trita Parsi
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5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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US would try that.
I don't think it is as smart to try it while you have an MOU, because then you essentially said that you should resolve the issue of the strait within the MOU, not outside of the MOU.
But it was essentially an effort to try to fortify a southern corridor that would become normalized and that the US could keep open even if war restarted.
Actually, before the MOU, the US had started to have great.
Greater and greater success, getting ships through that southern lane without the Iranians being able to stop it.
And this is part of the reason this whole thing blew up again.
Because the Iranians thought that the MoU was going to be used to find a final uh compromise on this.
And the US side believed that whether there's an MOU or not, they're going to do everything they can to change the facts on the ground and make sure that there is a pathway that the Iranians cannot touch, regardless of what happened.
That's
No, no, I don't think it would be like that.
There is a proposal on the table.
I don't know where things stand since of yesterday.
I have an update from back then and essentially goes back to a scenario in which
The traffic uh will be managed by Oman and Iran, only the territorial waters, which means that you exclude the idea that the US has been pushing for, and many other countries have pushed for as well, which is that there is a middle corridor that is international waters.
Uh, the Iran is never signed on to the uh uh Law of the Seas Treaty, nor has the US.
The US is invoking that treaty in this situation because Oman signed it, but the Iran never signed it and it has been what is I think called a consistent um uh objector to certain aspects of it.
So um what they're trying to do right now in these negotiations is to find some sort of an
Outcome.
The Iranians are trying to make sure that this is co-managed between the two of them, which means that it excludes all other parties.
It's not entirely clear to me whether the Omanis will accept it or not.
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