00:00Iran and Oman have agreed on a new temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06But Tehran says the waterway will not reopen until the United States fulfills its commitments
00:11under an interim peace deal signed in June.
00:14Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazim Gari-Babadi says the new transit corridor will be about
00:2011 kilometers wide, with parts of the route running through Iranian territorial waters.
00:25Iran and Oman have been negotiating for weeks on how to manage shipping through the strategic
00:30waterway.
00:31The Strait handled about a fifth of global oil and LNG shipments before the U.S.-Israel
00:37war with Iran began in February.
00:39Most shipping through the Strait has been disrupted since then.
00:43Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqqi and his Omani counterpart Badr Abu Saidi also discussed
00:49plans to clear mines from the waterway.
00:51Oman says it hopes the temporary corridor can be announced soon, with a permanent arrangement
00:57for managing the Strait to follow.
