Iran says US response to proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz ‘insufficient’
The United States’ response to Iran’s seven conditions for reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz was “insufficient”, Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, was quoted by state media as saying on Sunday.
Iran presented a proposal during the United Nations General Assembly under which the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened and normal maritime passage restored within seven days if its conditions were met. The United States later responded through Qatari intermediaries.
Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Washington needed to clarify issues that remained unclear to Tehran.
“We presented seven conditions to the Americans and clearly stated that the Strait of Hormuz would not be opened to them, and no negotiations would take place, until these conditions are met,” he said.
Rezaei added that Iran was “no longer in the process of responding to the Americans”.
“In their response, they have accepted some of our conditions, while others remain unclear,” he said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Tehran said in late September that it had received a US response to its latest proposal to revive the collapsed ceasefire in the Gulf, days after US President Donald Trump said he had rejected the proposal.
Qatar and other mediators have been relaying messages between Washington and Tehran in an effort to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route that handled about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies before the war began in late February with US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Credit: Reuters
