Iran’s foreign minister: Strait is open for commercial vessels “as far as we are concerned”

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz is open for commercial vessels “as far as we are concerned.”

“The Strait of Hormuz is now suffering first and most from the U.S. aggression and the blockade that they have imposed on it,” Araghchi said while at the BRICS foreign minister meetings in New Delhi on Thursday.

“As far as we are concerned, the Strait of Hormuz is open for all, you know, commercial vessels,” he said. “But they need to cooperate with our navy forces. So we have not made any obstacles. It is Americans who have made blockade, and I hope that that could be ended by the removal of this illegal blockade imposed by Americans.”