Deal emerging between US and Iran to end war and open the Strait of Hormuz
發佈日期: 2026-05-25 21:30
TVB News
A deal appears to be emerging between the United States and Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. President Donald Trump said over the weekend it had been "largely negotiated." But Tehran said on Monday the agreement is not imminent.
Speaking from New Delhi, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called negotiations involving the United States and Iran "a work in progress" as he continued his first official trip to India.
"We're still a work in progress. We have what I think is a pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the Straits, get the Straits open, enter into a very real, significant, time limited negotiation on the nuclear matters, and hopefully we can pull it off. It has a lot of support in the Gulf. There's a lot of support globally. Every country that we've walked through, understands It's not just very reasonable, but it's the right thing for the world to get done. As the president said, he's not in a hurry. He's not going to make a bad deal, and the president is not going to make a bad agreement. So let's see what happens. We're going to give diplomacy every chance to succeed before we we explore the alternatives."
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that a deal with Iran to end the war has not been fully negotiated yet, lashing out at critics of the planned deal. "Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it or knows what it is. It isn't even fully negotiated yet," Trump posted on his Truth Social.
This as Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday a deal is not imminent. General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior advisor to Iran's supreme leader also warned Sunday that the Iran war could expand to include the areas of the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb and the Indian Ocean. "You will be expanding a war from which you yourselves will be the first to flee. You will flee from the heavy fire of our fighters," he said.
He also threatened that Iran may withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Meanwhile, a Japanese-managed crude oil tanker that passed through the Strait of Hormuz in late April has arrived in Japan becoming a first Japan-affiliated ship to do so since the Middle East war started.
The Panamanian-flagged Idemitsu Maru operated by a subsidiary of major Japanese oil wholesaler Idemitsu Kosan entered the Ise Bay in Aichi prefecture in central Japan Monday.
The tanker is carrying about two million barrels of Saudi Arabian oil to be processed into petroleum products at a refinery.
