The United States would prefer to ensure free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz through a peace agreement with Iran, but will do this even without a deal with Tehran, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, APA reports.
"President [of the US Donald] Trump wants to end it with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two parties to do that. If they're ready to do that, that's the way it'll end. If not, we will continue to assure flow of traffic through the Strait without Iran's cooperation," he said in an interview with ABC News.
According to Wright, around 14 million barrels of oil is coming from the Middle East region daily, with seven million barrels being shipped via the Strait of Hormuz and the rest being pumped through pipelines. "We're at a little under 14 million barrels a day from the Arabian Gulf region. That's two thirds of pre-conflict traffic, dramatically up from where we were back in March," he stated.
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