Iran demands war compensation to reopen Strait of Hormuz: official

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Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, deputy for communications at the Iranian president’s office, has said Iran will open the Strait of Hormuz only after receiving compensation for war damages, paid via a “new legal regime” based on transit fees, reports Al Jazeera.

Tabatabaei also said in a social media post that Trump, who earlier today threatened to attack Iran’s civil infrastructure over the Strait’s closure, had “resorted to obscenities and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger”.

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