Iran has established a temporary safe maritime corridor through the Strait of Hormuz and notified the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Iranian embassy in the UK said on July 13.

The statement sets out Tehran's case for controlling passage through the strait under the Islamabad memorandum, the ceasefire deal with the US, as the two sides trade competing claims over the waterway and blame each other for disrupting shipping.

Iran had officially established a temporary safe and secure maritime corridor, free of technical and military barriers, and notified the IMO via notice S14/2026, in compliance with the memorandum, the embassy said in a post on X.

The embassy said the US, which it accused of violating the memorandum from the outset, was pushing vessels towards what it called a dangerous southern parallel route near Oman that was legally questionable and prone to accidents.

What the embassy described as US military aggression, including attacks on Iran's port and tower infrastructure, had turned the strait into a tense, high-risk zone for maritime traffic, it said.

"Those who enabled this perilous situation must reconsider their stance, if they truly seek safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Security is a two-way street," the embassy said.

The statement follows a weekend of escalation in which Iran declared the strait closed and struck US bases across the Gulf in response to US strikes on southern Iran.

US Central Command said it had hit dozens of Iranian sites, and each side has since claimed to control the waterway, with CENTCOM saying "Iran does not control it." The strait normally carries about a fifth of the world's traded oil and gas.

Under clause five of the 60-day memorandum signed in June, Iran and Oman, the two states bordering the strait, are to agree arrangements for managing traffic.

Talks in Muscat on July 11 ended without a mechanism for safe passage, with foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei blaming pressure on Oman. Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority declared transit impossible on July 12, citing US military activity.