Any interference in the Strait of Hormuz will only delay its reopening, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said during a visit to Baghdad, as Iraq offered to host a regional security summit including Iran, Iranian and Iraqi media reported on June 28.
The visit, Araghchi's first since the war, shows Iran's push to lock in regional backing for its management of the strait and to shape a post-war security order that excludes outside powers, even as a fresh US-Iran military exchange tests the ceasefire.
Araghchi held a joint press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein hours after Iranian rockets hit US bases across the border in Kuwait and further across the Gulf in Bahrain.
Araghchi said that under the memorandum, the Strait of Hormuz would return to its pre-war conditions within 30 days under Iran's management, and that no country or body had any responsibility in the matter.
Any attempt to adopt new arrangements or to interfere would only complicate the situation and delay the reopening, he said, urging all parties not to allow the memorandum to be derailed.
He said the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, should end under the memorandum, and that it was the responsibility of the United States to halt Israeli attacks on Lebanon, with a withdrawal from occupied points required.
Hussein said the closure of the Strait of Hormuz had been one of the causes of Iraq's oil export problems and had a deep effect on the country. He said Iraq did not support a widening of the war and had not backed the aggression against Iran, and had proposed a security framework for the region.
Iraq was ready to host a meeting of the eight Gulf states alongside Iran, Hussein said, in a format Araghchi referred to as 6+2, the Gulf Cooperation Council plus Iran and Iraq.
Earlier, US Central Command said its fighter jets had struck 10 Iranian military targets in and near the Strait of Hormuz, including military equipment, communication systems, air defence sites and drone storage facilities, in direct response to continued aggression against commercial shipping.
It said Iran had been given a chance to honour the ceasefire but had instead launched a one-way attack drone that hit a Panama-flagged tanker.
The IRGC said the United States had attacked five coastal posts in Iran under what it called the pretext of the IRGC Navy confronting an offending ship, and that its forces had destroyed the targets in Kuwait and Bahrain in response.