Iran’s envoy to China says Beijing to get Hormuz concessions

Iran’s ambassador to Beijing said China and other friendly nations will be granted “special considerations” when Tehran determines the level and nature of service fees charged to ships using the Strait of Hormuz. 

Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the critical waterway for energy supplies is now a matter of “national security” in the aftermath of the four-month US and Israeli war on the Islamic Republic. As such, “there will be new arrangements concerning the Strait of Hormuz with the collaboration and cooperation of the state of Oman,” he said.

“We will definitely have special considerations for China, because China is a friendly country,” Fazli said Saturday at the World Peace Forum in Beijing, without specifying what those concessions would entail. “Special treatment we should award to countries which are........

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