What are Iran’s latest conditions to end its war with the US?

Iran’s information main Mohsen Rezaei has laid retired Tehran’s latest acceptable of conditions to extremity its warfare with the United States.

In an exclusive interrogation with Al Jazeera connected Saturday, Rezaei said that Tehran has conveyed its conditions to the US via Qatari mediators, but added that Tehran was much battle-hardened present than successful the archetypal 40 days of the war, which began successful precocious February pursuing associated US-Israeli strikes connected Iran.

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“We volition face America with greater force, and with much galore and much achy strikes,” said Rezaei.

While full-scale warring has been paused for months, the 2 sides are obscurity adjacent to peace. A June 17 60-day memorandum of knowing (MoU) betwixt the US and Iran expired past month. Since then, attacks person risen, particularly successful and astir the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has successful effect closed, portion the US maintains a blockade of Iran’s confederate ports.

Escalating attacks connected lipid tankers attempting to walk done the strait and the effectual Houthi power of the Red Sea route, which Saudi Arabia has been utilizing to export oil, person caused lipid prices to transverse the $100 people successful caller weeks.

Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, described Rezaei’s remarks arsenic portion of the “two-sided, twofold message” Iran has maintained passim the struggle – combining openness to diplomacy with continued preparations for war.

So what are Iran’s latest conditions, and bash they disagree from the June MoU?

What are the Iranian conditions to extremity the war?

Here is what Rezaei told Al Jazeera:

• An extremity to the warfare connected each fronts, including, successful particular, Lebanon.
• The merchandise of its frozen funds that tally into billions of US dollars.
• An extremity to the naval blockade connected Iranian ports.
• An extremity to US interference successful Iran’s interior affairs.
• An extremity to US practice with “the opponents of our revolution”.
• An extremity to each US attacks connected Iranian territory.

“It is successful Washington’s involvement to judge these conditions. Trump’s threats volition not execute immoderate results. We are prepared for a decisive war,” said the information chief.

On Sunday morning, Iran’s parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf reiterated Tehran’s stance connected the Strait of Hormuz, saying the captious waterway volition stay closed until the US fulfils its commitments.

“Until these conditions are met, the morganatic rights of the Iranian federation are recognised, and American commitments are fulfilled, determination volition beryllium nary opening for a instrumentality to the erstwhile authorities of negotiations oregon for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,” said Ghalibaf.

What is antithetic from the June MoU?

Iran’s latest acceptable of conditions bears similarities to its demands nether the MoU woody signed successful June. That statement besides included an extremity to the warfare connected each fronts, including successful Lebanon; respect for each side’s sovereignty and not meddling successful interior affairs; an extremity to the naval blockade by some sides; and the merchandise of Iran’s frozen funds.

The MoU besides called for a $300bn US-backed reconstruction plan, portion the 2 sides besides agreed that Iran would not procure oregon make atomic weapons and that Tehran would unfastened the Strait of Hormuz for the harmless transition of vessels.

It besides required the US to contented waivers for the export of Iranian crude lipid and different services, nary caller sanctions connected Iran, and nary deployment of further US forces successful the region.

In the interview, Rezaei did not notation warfare reparations from the US arsenic Tehran has antecedently demanded.

While determination is small genuinely caller successful the substance of Iranian demands, what has changed is the timing and the transmission done which it was delivered, said Adel Abdel Ghafar, a elder chap focusing connected the Middle East astatine the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

“With the Islamabad MoU dormant and … Rezaei delivering the conditions done Qatar, Iran is putting the onus backmost connected Washington and doing it publicly, for maximum effect,” Abdel Ghafar told Al Jazeera.

Both sides are astatine an impasse, helium explained, with the US capable to prolong the naval blockade and clasp aerial superiority but incapable to compel capitulation from Iran.

Iran, meanwhile, cannot interruption the blockade but “keeps capable asymmetric leverage to marque things hard for everyone”, helium said.

“Basically Iran is betting [on the] war’s unpopularity and [that the] US midterms [will] displacement things successful its favour, truthful it’s going nationalist with demands and putting the shot successful Trump’s court.”

Rezaei, successful his interrogation with Al Jazeera, rejected the US accusation that Tehran violated the MoU by striking an lipid tanker successful the Strait of Hormuz, stating that Iran’s actions came lone aft US attacks connected Bandar Abbas and an Iranian surveillance level there.

He said immoderate agreement, including the MoU, required recourse to a quality solution committee agreed betwixt Ghalibaf, Iran’s main negotiator, and US Vice President JD Vance, which Washington unilaterally withdrew from.

What did Rezaei accidental connected Iran’s atomic progamme, Yemen and others?

On the atomic programme, Rezaei said Iran could person withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty pursuing attacks by the US and Israel – thing that Tehran would not regularisation retired successful the future.

“We were so threatened, but we person not withdrawn from the pact to this day,” helium said.

For now, however, the state continues to abide by a fatwa (decree) from the erstwhile Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning atomic weapons, said the information chief.

“But we bash not cognize what volition hap successful the future,” helium said, citing further sanctions oregon a UN Security Council referral of Iran’s atomic record arsenic imaginable aboriginal pressure.

On the intensifying warfare successful Yemen, Rezaei denied immoderate Iranian involvement, adding that it could connection mediation betwixt the warring sides. He besides said Tehran was not exploiting the struggle “for its ain governmental ends”.

“We are afloat prepared to assistance execute bid betwixt Yemen and Saudi Arabia,” said Rezaei.

The information main besides dismissed speculation, including wrong Iran, that it could adjacent the Bab al-Mandeb strait to unit planetary vigor markets, stating the waterway “is a Yemeni matter” relating to the Houthi question and not Iran.

On the Strait of Hormuz, Rezaei said Tehran came wrong “a abbreviated step” of announcing a woody with Oman to negociate it, but it whitethorn necessitate determination endorsement earlier being made public.

What is the US response?

The US has not yet responded to Iran’s caller conditions. Rezaei said Iran is “waiting for the Americans to judge and implement” them.

The US did, however, connected Saturday pass its citizens successful Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait and Jordan to workout “heightened vigilance”, stating that “the information situation remains analyzable with the imaginable for unforeseen escalation”.

US President Donald Trump besides chopped his play abbreviated from his travel to Camp David, returning to Washington, DC, connected Saturday from the secluded statesmanlike analyzable successful agrarian Maryland, the White House said. No mentation was fixed for the aboriginal return, which comes arsenic warring betwixt Saudi Arabia and the Houthis has escalated.

According to Rob Geist Pinfold, a lecturer astatine King’s College London, Trump whitethorn instrumentality Iran’s memo earnestly – successful an effort to extremity the warfare earlier the US midterm elections successful November.

“Trump precise overmuch wants a woody to upwind up the warfare earlier the midterms,” Pinfold told Al Jazeera.

“The US’s Gulf allies volition besides apt propulsion for a renewal of talks. But it doesn’t mean determination inactive aren’t important substantive gaps betwixt the parties, which marque a broad woody improbable immoderate clip soon.”

David Des Roches, a erstwhile Pentagon manager of Arabian Peninsula affairs, however, told Al Jazeera that Washington was improbable to spot Iran’s presumption arsenic a superior opening.

“At archetypal glance, astir apt not serious; they would beryllium viewed arsenic surrender,” Des Roches said.

But helium pointed to Iran’s evident abandonment of warfare reparations arsenic a motion of movement.