New Delhi: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that Arab states will meet in Oman on Monday to discuss a “Hormuz route”.
"They will discuss an understanding on this Hormuz route and notify the relevant international maritime organisation of its status,” he told India Today TV while in New Delhi where he attended the BRICS summit.
But earlier on Saturday, an Iranian official said that Monday’s meeting was not expected to yield a signed agreement over the blockaded waterway,
The Iranian official, who discussed the plans on condition of anonymity, said Monday's meeting was called at Oman's initiative, and would provide a forum to discuss other regional issues as well as Hormuz.
Around a fifth of global oil supplies transited the strait before the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February, launching the war.
Global oil prices have surged over the past week after the United States and Iran both fired on tankers in the strait, and Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen advanced near another crucial Middle East conduit for oil, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on the opposite side of the Arabian Peninsula.