Iranian state news outlet questions foreign minister’s ‘unexpected tweet’ on Hormuz Strait

An Iranian state news outlet on Friday questioned the “unexpected tweet” from Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following the start of Israel and Lebanon’s 10-day ceasefire.

Araghchi wrote on the social platform X that the Strait of Hormuz was open “for all commercial vessels… for the remaining period of ceasefire,” which Iran’s government announced earlier in the day.

The Fars News Agency, reacting to the post, wrote on X that along with Araghchi’s “unexpected tweet about the liberation of the Strait of Hormuz, and following Trump’s subsequent nervous saber-rattling, Iranian society has been plunged into an atmosphere of confusion,” according to X’s translation from Persian.

The state-run outlet cited “international analysts” who have assessed that President Trump’s “recent behavior” comes from “desperation in the complex Iran arena.” The Fars News Agency added that Iranians worry about the “absolute and strange silence” from the country’s Supreme National Security Council and its negotiators.

“They [Iranians] accept it, but it is expected that at least a clear explanation be provided regarding the ‘reason for silence,'” the agency continued. “Public opinion raises this question: if it is in the country’s interest that the details of the negotiations or recent developments not be publicized, why is this very interest and the reason for avoiding transparency not explained to the people?”

The Fars News Agency called on its government to not “allow the enemy’s narrative and hostile media to fill the created narrative vacuum by toying with the spirit and psyche of society.”

“These days, Twitter and short, pithy statements are no longer a suitable medium for persuading domestic public opinion; rather, even this very ‘not explaining’ requires explanation,” the agency wrote in its last post in the thread.

The path of transit through which around 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas passes reopened more a week after the U.S. and Iran’s 14-day ceasefire went into effect. Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz shortly after that ceasefire was reached as Israel continued its strikes on Lebanon, which Iranian leaders said violated a condition of its ceasefire plan.

Trump celebrated the reopening of the strait on Friday, adding shortly later that the U.S. blockade installed Monday was still in “full force” until the two countries can agree to a long-lasting agreement.

The president also claimed that Iran had agreed to hand over its “nuclear dust,” an apparent reference to the country’s enriched uranium.

Iran’s closure of the strait spiked global fuel prices and impacted the passage of other goods, including fertilizer. Brent crude, the global benchmark, decreased to just more than $91 per barrel Friday afternoon after reaching lower to $89 earlier in the day. The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate reached to under $85 per barrel at the same time, having earlier dipped down to $81.

The national average for gas in the U.S. dropped to $4.08 on Friday, after reaching $4.15 last week, according to AAA.

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