🚨 JUST IN: Iran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States meets certain conditions.
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, laid out several demands in a statement carried by state media, including lifting the U.S. naval blockade and sanctions, withdrawing U.S. forces from around Iran, paying war reparations, releasing frozen Iranian assets, and ending attacks on Iran’s allies and threats against the country—NYT
🚨 Q: Russland scheint seine Angriffe auf zivile Ziele verstärkt zu haben. Das muss für Sie Anlass zur Sorge sein.
A: Nun, schauen Sie, wir sind nicht beteiligt. Wir sind durch einen Ozean getrennt… Wir arbeiten daran. Wir machen Fortschritte. Zwischen den beiden Führungspersonen gibt es sehr viel Hass.
🚨 IRAN'S 6 CONDITIONS FOR OPENING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
“America’s…
1- Never threatening Iran in any way or language and not insulting this nation’s sanctities
2- Permanently ending wars and violations against Iran and Iran’s allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq
3- Lifting the naval blockade and withdrawing its military forces (naval and air) from around Iran
4- Fully compensating for the damages of the two aggressive wars imposed on Iran
5- Lifting the cruel and illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation
6- Unconditionally releasing the frozen and stolen assets of the Iranian people
These are the demands of the resistant Iranian people who have been tirelessly present in the squares and streets for one hundred sixty days, shouting this out.
The Supreme National Security Council will never take a step back; neither in war nor in negotiation.”
We are very close to reaching an agreement with Oman.
However, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is contingent on other conditions, including the United States compensating for its violations of the Islamabad Accord.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's president just made his sales pitch for ending the war
From strength, not surrender.
Pezeshkian says now is the best moment to reach an agreement precisely because Iran feels united, strong, and, in his framing, victorious after this war.
Not a weak hand forced to the table. A winning one cashing in.
It's the same message he's repeated all week: national cohesion held, Iran wasn't toppled, the new supreme leader kept the country together.
The catch is that "victorious" is Tehran's own scorecard. Depleted U.S. interceptor stockpiles and a strait still under negotiation over transit fees don't obviously read like anyone's decisive win.
Every side of this war is telling its own people the same thing right now: we're the ones who came out ahead.
Whose version will survive contact with the actual deal once it gets signed?
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Vance is basically saying Iran wants out but their own hardliners won't let them say yes.
That's the trap. Khamenei can't publicly surrender to America without losing the regime's entire reason for existing.
So Iran negotiates with one hand tied behind their back while their economy bleeds out. "Progress" from Vance likely means uranium enrichment caps are on the table.
Whether Tehran can actually deliver without a internal coup is the real question.
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