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An Iranian lady shouts throughout a march in Tehran, Iran, September 25, 2026.– Reuters- Iran states resuming Hormuz depends upon conditions being fulfilled.
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Iran demanded Sunday that just diplomacy can resolve its dispute with the United States and Israel, after United States President Donald Trump stated he declined an Iranian proposition to resume the Strait of Hormuz and end battling.
“Our conditions are clear, and any move toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz is contingent on these conditions being met,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi published on social networks. “Only a negotiated solution can get them out of this deadlock.”
Iran revealed a peace proposition recently at the UN General Assembly in New York, stating it had actually been transferred to the Americans through Qatari arbitrators. Trump stated on Saturday he declined the strategy, and argued that desperation was driving the Iranians’ push for a contract on the crucial waterway.
“They want to make a deal to open the Hormuz Strait immediately because they’re losing so badly,” Trump informed press reporters at the White House.
Keeping the door to diplomacy open, nevertheless, Trump informed Axios in a phone interview on Sunday that he anticipated United States arbitrators to take part in more talks today.
Araqchi stated conciliators assisting in Tehran’s talks with Washington had not formally communicated a United States rejection of the strategy.
“We are waiting for the mediators to convey the definitive views to us, and we will make a decision based on them,” Araqchi published.
The United States has actually enforced a financial blockade on Iran to put pressure on Tehran to stop Iranian attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which have actually significantly lowered shipping through the location even as Trump consistently asserts that the United States manages the waterway.
The commander-in-chief of Iran’s army, Amir Hatam, stated the war was at a vital and definitive phase, including that Tehran would decline a scenario in which it was not able to trade while foreign powers utilized the area’s tactical waterways.
“If Iran cannot trade, if Iran cannot live, no one will be able to trade or live,” he stated, in remarks reported by state media.
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Previous efforts at diplomacy have actually stopped working to end the war, which started on February 28 with United States and Israeli strikes on Iran.
The Iranians likewise engaged their Saudi competitors relating to the Strait of Hormuz throughout the quick flurry of diplomacy in New York, highlighting the stakes of a seven-month-old dispute that has actually interfered with oil streams through a vital shipping lane and taken a toll on the international economy.
Araqchi informed press reporters at the UN on Friday the proposed offer would set off a seven-day countdown to resuming the strait and a time out in local combating.
“If there is seriousness on the US side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared,” Araqchi stated. If the United States were to concur, the warring celebrations might begin larger talks “on mutually agreed subjects.”
That might possibly consist of conversations of Iran’s nuclear program. Trump has actually pointed out avoiding Tehran from ever getting a nuke as an essential objective, in addition to ending its capability to assault its neighbours and producing conditions for Iranians to fall their management.
United States envoy to the United Nations Mike Waltz stated on Sunday in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union that Trump had actually turned down the Iranian proposition since it needed the instant lifting of sanctions and release of frozen properties.
“So the bottom line is they were asking for everything up front with a promise that they would then talk,” Waltz stated. “The president’s just not confident that the Iranians are coming in good faith and that they will truly negotiate the end of their nuclear programme.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in an interview with the CBS program “Face the Nation”stated Tehran was prepared for talks on its nuclear program and other problems, however would decline “bullying or coercion”
“Iran is not seeking war, but will defend itself against pressure, threats and attacks,” Pezeshkian said, adding that it had already agreed that “we’re not expected to establish nuclear weapons”.
