{"id":43028,"date":"2026-08-09T05:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=43028"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:27:46","slug":"iran-fordert-entschaedigung-truppenabzug-und-sanktionsende-sonst-bleibt-hormus-zu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/iran-fordert-entschaedigung-truppenabzug-und-sanktionsende-sonst-bleibt-hormus-zu\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Demands Compensation, Troop Withdrawal, and an End to Sanctions, or Hormuz Stays Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A large share of the world's oil and gas passes through a narrow strait, and right now almost nothing is moving through it. The Strait of Hormuz, an international waterway before the war, is nearly empty, with the number of passages remaining low. The war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran in February is on hold on paper, but this Saturday showed just how little that means. There is the familiar saying that war is the continuation of politics by other means. In Hormuz, we are now watching the reverse, politics as the continuation of war. Whoever controls the narrowest point controls the valve through which half the world economy breathes, and Tehran has learned just how much pressure can be applied at this one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body in Tehran resembling a politburo, the Supreme National Security Council, declared that the strait would not be reopened until the United States corrected its behavior. The statement was read by its secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, who is also a commander of the Revolutionary Guards. America must never threaten Iran again and must permanently end the war against the country and its armed allies in the region. It must also lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports, withdraw its military, fully compensate Iran for war damages, and unconditionally release frozen assets, including lifting the sanctions. These are the demands of a victor, not those of a country whose ports have been blockaded and whose facilities have been hit. Anyone negotiating like this does not want the confrontation to end, but to continue it with a pen instead of a weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was initially no response from Washington. The United States had insisted on first reaching an acceptable arrangement for Hormuz and then lifting the blockade. The interim agreement signed in June provided for a timetable on sanctions and a plan for compensation as part of a final agreement, while the frozen assets were also supposed to be negotiated. The 60-day deadline expires in just over a week, although it could be extended. What Tehran is demanding now turns the negotiations away from the shipping lane and toward the question of who lost the war. A timetable for sanctions and a compensation plan can only be negotiated as long as both sides recognize the same outcome. Here, neither side does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n