New YorkFertilizer needs a deal within weeks, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Asia and Africa miss planting season otherwise, said UN task force head Jorge Moreira da Silva.
Before the war the strait handled about a third of traded urea and nearly half of seaborne sulphur.
Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency quoted Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari saying the strait is closed and transit needs coordination.
Moreira da Silva wants the US and Iran to separate fertilizer from the comprehensive talks.
How each outlet framed it
- TASS leans critical
- quotes UNOPS head Moreira da Silva that the deal must come 'in the next few weeks' before the planting season and urges fertilizer shipments be decoupled from a comprehensive deal
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- presents Iran's Rear Admiral Sayyari asserting the strait is closed and linking US gasoline prices to that closure, with IRGC Navy positioned west of it
Sources: TASS, Mehr News Agency