President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iranian officials agreed “fully and completely” to allow inspections of its nuclear sites, saying the Strait of Hormuz would remain open as long as Tehran held to those terms.
Iran’s Foreign Minister spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said early on Tuesday that Tehran does not “have any plans” to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to access sites damaged during the war, according to Iranian state media.
Despite Iran’s “protestations and false statements to the contrary,” officials in Tehran have “fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!),” Trump said on social media on Tuesday. “This will insure ‘Nuclear Honesty.’ If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!”
“Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran, I have agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain OPEN, with no further Naval Blockade,” Trump added. “However, all ships are remaining in place should it be necessary to reinstitute the Blockade, which seems, at this point, highly unlikely.”
Iran and the United States agreed to allow traffic through the strait as part of the terms of the memorandum of understanding signed last week by both countries.
