Qatar’s prime minister said establishing a hotline between the US and Iran is essential to prevent rogue actors impeding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, as he predicted that the Gulf state would resume normal liquefied natural gas production “within a few weeks”.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the FT that the hotline agreed by the warring parties at their talks in Switzerland was needed to counter “disinformation” and ensure co-ordination while mines were cleared from the crucial waterway.
A challenge, he said, was that “anyone who just wants to mess around” could use shipping communications to warn vessels: “‘Go back, we are going to fire, we are the IRGC [Iran’s Revolutionary Guards]’.”
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