Iran's Supreme National Security Council published a six-point list of demands Saturday for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, tying the world's busiest oil chokepoint to a broader set of political, military and economic concessions from Washington and dampening expectations that a separate Iran-Oman shipping arrangement would soon restore traffic through the waterway.

The list raises the price for the sort of deal President Trump has suggested could arrive within days and formalizes what senior Iranian officials have signaled for weeks: any technical arrangement with Oman is separate from a political end to the blockade Tehran imposed after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. The strait normally carries about a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas.

The demands

The conditions, laid out by council Secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr in a statement carried by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB, include a permanent end to U.S. attacks on Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq; withdrawal of U.S. naval and air forces from around Iran; compensation for damage from two "imposed wars"; the lifting of sanctions; and the "unconditional" release of frozen Iranian assets, according to Al Jazeera and NBC News. Zolghadr said the strait would stay closed until Washington "corrects its behavior," CBS News reported.

Al Jazeera said the six items broaden the terms Tehran now says must be met before Hormuz can fully reopen, adding Palestine, Yemen and Iraq alongside Lebanon on the list of allies. Reuters, cited by Al Jazeera, reported that the June memorandum had treated the same issues as parts of a reciprocal and phased process, not as preconditions.

Araghchi's caveat

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi followed Sunday, telling the Tasnim news agency that "there is no possibility of resuming negotiations" with Washington until it compensates Iran for what Tehran calls violations of the June memorandum, CBS News reported. He said talks with Oman were "approaching the final stages" but that "changes to maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz are a technical and legal matter and do not mean that the Strait of Hormuz has been reopened," according to NBC News. Araghchi told Al Jazeera that Iran was instead "exchanging messages" with the United States through intermediaries.

Pezeshkian pushes a deal

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a briefing broadcast by IRIB, said "now is the best time for an agreement." Iran analyst Negar Mortazavi of the Center for International Policy told Al Jazeera the message put "the weight of the presidency behind diplomacy" and pushed back at hard-liners inside Iran who oppose talks. "There is cohesion, strength and unity in the country, and as far as I know, Iran is considered victorious and powerful in this war," Pezeshkian said. He argued the two governments should have set up a mechanism to address alleged breaches of the June memorandum rather than allow disputes to escalate back into strikes.

Washington's stance

Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Saturday that the U.S. was "really in the middle of the game here" and that "This thing is not over." Vance said the Iranians "have told us they have no plans to toll the Strait of Hormuz," the BBC reported. Reuters, citing an Iranian official, had earlier reported that Tehran was seeking fees of 5 percent to 7 percent of cargo value from vessels crossing the strait. Vance said negotiators were working through "how you can actually set up a traffic scheme so that the ships can pass through safely."

NBC News reported that senior American officials had previously ruled out immediate payments to Iran and continue to insist that Tehran abandon its enriched uranium stockpile before any final agreement. The U.S. had not publicly responded to Zolghadr's list by Sunday morning.

Traffic and attacks

U.S. Central Command's blockade of Iranian ports had redirected 53 vessels since it was reimposed July 14, an increase of two from a day earlier, CBS News reported; the first U.S. blockade redirected more than 140 ships between April 14 and June 18. On Saturday, the United Arab Emirates said an Iranian missile struck an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company tanker transiting the strait, and the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency reported that a projectile hit off Oman caused a fire but no injuries. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi told Tasnim that "the strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway," CBS News reported.

The other side

Administration officials had not publicly responded to the six conditions by press time. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Sunday cabinet meeting quoted by CBS News, said "with an agreement or without an agreement, as long as I am prime minister, Iran will not have nuclear weapons" — Sunday's closest public rebuff of Iran from a party to the war. Conservative and administration-aligned commentary on the Iranian conditions was not represented in the reporting surveyed for this article.

What to watch

Oman said Sunday its discussions with Iran were "proceeding in a positive and constructive atmosphere," and Araghchi said the two sides were "almost very close to the result" on a "temporary route" through the strait, according to NBC News and Al Jazeera. Whether that technical route can survive the political list Zolghadr released a day earlier is likely to become clearer this week.