# Iran says it has given Washington its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz

Bangladesh raised fuel prices by as much as 17.4 percent the same weekend, showing how a closure now in its seventh month reaches household budgets far from the Gulf.

- Published: 2026-09-21T05:16:54.216Z
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- Sources: [Dawn](https://www.dawn.com/news/2031448/naqvi-due-in-iran-for-talks-as-hormuz-terms-conveyed), [The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-raises-fuel-prices-by-up-to-17-amid-global-oil-price-surge/article71490007.ece)

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament and Tehran's lead negotiator in talks to end the war, said the Islamic Republic has stated its terms for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and sent them to the United States through mediators. "Our messages and the explanation of our conditions have been clearly conveyed to the other party," he said in remarks [reported by Dawn](https://www.dawn.com/news/2031448/naqvi-due-in-iran-for-talks-as-hormuz-terms-conveyed) as Pakistan's interior minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran for talks. Ghalibaf added that until the conditions are met and what he called American commitments are honoured, [there will be no return to an open strait](https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2026/09/20/iran-s-ghalibaf-says-strait-of-hormuz-will-remain-closed-until-conditions-are-met).

Mohsen Rezaei of Iran's Supreme National Security Council set out the list: an end to the fighting on all fronts, the release of Iran's frozen funds, and an end to the naval blockade, [with Qatar acting as intermediary](https://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/iran-says-conveyed-conditions-to-us-for-reopening-hormuz-3002426). Washington has not publicly accepted or rejected those terms. Iranian officials present the closure as leverage that ends when the blockade ends. American and Gulf accounts describe it as the cause of the disruption rather than a response to it.

Crude has stayed expensive throughout. Brent [closed at 101.21 dollars a barrel on September 9](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/oil-prices-today-wti-brent-us-iran-hormuz-attacks.html) and has held near or above 100 dollars since the spring.

The increase affects importers with thin reserves most severely. Bangladesh lifted diesel to 135 taka a litre from 115, octane to 165 from 145, petrol to 160 from 140 and kerosene to 155 from 135, effective Monday, [a rise of up to 17.4 percent](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-raises-fuel-prices-by-up-to-17-amid-global-oil-price-surge/article71490007.ece). The energy ministry said international fuel prices have more than doubled since March and freight charges have climbed because of the regional conflict. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation [lost 228.76 billion taka, about 1.9 billion dollars, between March and August](https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/bangladesh-raises-fuel-prices-by-up-to-17-4-amid-global-oil-price-surge-126092100126_1.html), and officials expect the new prices to cut annual losses by roughly 100 billion taka.

The sequence is the classic pattern of a supply shock working through a managed price. Governments first absorb the higher import bill on a state company's balance sheet, then on the budget, then hand it to consumers when the losses grow too large to fund. Each step postpones the adjustment without reducing the real resource cost, and the final pass-through arrives as a single large jump rather than a gradual one.

## What this means

Every month the strait stays closed transfers income from oil-importing economies to producers and to whoever controls alternative shipping routes. The channel is fiscal before it is monetary. State fuel companies in South Asia borrow to cover the gap, the sovereign absorbs that debt, and the currency and consumers absorb the impact once the subsidy is withdrawn. Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the most exposed, refiners with access to non-Gulf crude gain, and central banks in importing countries face a rise in inflation they cannot offset with interest-rate policy because it originates on the supply side.

## What to watch

- Whether Qatar-mediated contacts produce any partial easing of the blockade, since even a limited convoy arrangement would change the freight and insurance cost of Gulf cargoes immediately.
- Bangladesh's next inflation reading and any public reaction to the fuel increase, which would show whether the government can hold the new prices or will reverse them under political pressure.
- War-risk insurance premiums on tankers routed through the Gulf and the Red Sea, the cleanest measure of whether traders think the standoff is easing or hardening.