Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Thursday said that the United States claim that frozen Iranian assets would be used to purchase American agricultural products was false.

In a X post, he wrote, “America falsely claims that our frozen assets will buy their agriculture.”

He continued, “Interesting. The only crop we’re harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust. It is an organic, abundant, and local harvest,” adding that the United States exports nothing but “genetically modified soybeans, false promises, and empty statements.”

Meanwhile, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said no transit fees would be imposed in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday after Muscat and Tehran, which border the key waterway, had earlier said they were discussing service “costs”.

Badr Albusaidi said, “future arrangements regarding the Strait do not entail the imposition of any transit fees,” during a meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in the Bahraini capital Manama with US Secretary Marco Rubio — whose administration has repeatedly opposed any fees or tolls. (EIR/AFP)