Iran’s Rezaei Says U.S. Response to Tehran’s Conditions Is Deceptive
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, said in an Al Mayadeen interview that Washington’s response to Tehran’s conditions is “deceptive” and that the United States has yet to give a frank, clear reply.
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Speaking to the Lebanese channel on Tuesday, the major general said Iran had presented its seven conditions to the Americans “and are waiting for their response, but their initial response was not sufficient for us,” Iran International reported, quoting the interview.
“America’s response to our conditions is deceptive,” he said, according to that account.
A Bloomberg-wire summary of the same interview quoted Rezaei as saying: “We asked the Americans to provide a frank and clear response to our conditions, and to this day they have not done so.” He added that they “may provide this response in the future.”
Seven Conditions Remain Unmet, Tehran Says
The remarks sharpen a line Rezaei has held for weeks as indirect contacts, including through Qatari mediators, have failed to close the gap over Iran’s terms for ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
On Nov. 3, he wrote on X that the U.S. response “was not convincing” and that Washington must answer the seven conditions “completely and explicitly” before the strait would reopen. On Oct. 11, he said the United States had accepted some of the conditions but called that earlier reply “inadequate.”
A day before the Al Mayadeen interview, Rezaei told Washington on X to “stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks” and said it was “time to surrender to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out.”
Iran has also denied reports of a planned meeting in Doha between Rezaei and U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said diplomacy cannot move forward unless Washington meets Tehran’s terms, including on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
The conditions circulated through mediators include an end to hostilities, the release of frozen assets, the lifting of limits on oil exports, and an end to the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to earlier reporting. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday described some of those demands as “excessive, ridiculous and completely unrealistic,” Iran International reported.
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