Iran indicates its received an official US response to its latest offer on ending the war
Iranian officials indicated Wednesday they have received an official U.S.response to Tehran’s latest proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S.
President Donald Trump had publicly rejected just days earlier.The officials did not say what the response contained and whether it was a rejection.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the U.S.response to President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told the state-run IRNA news agency.“We will make every effort to bring the agreement to fruition and will firmly stand up for the rights of the Iranian people,” Pezeshkian said.
“The agreement must now be based on a win-win strategy.”The Cabinet meeting followed Araghchi’s return to Iran after travelling to New York for last week’s U.N.General Assembly, where officials held indirect talks with U.S.
officials and also met with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders.Araghchi briefed the Cabinet on his trip to New York and the meetings he held there, including Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which Mohajerani said had been conveyed through mediators.Araghchi last week said he floated the proposal to reopen the strait in a week if the U.S.agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, release frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on Iranian oil sales, among other conditions.Trump swiftly rejected the proposal, saying Iran wanted to make a deal because it was “losing so badly” but that its offer “would not be acceptable.” Despite Trump’s public rebuffing, mediators continued working with Iran and the U.S.
to try to broker a deal to end the fighting and open the strait, according to officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.Meanwhile, the U.S.Treasury Department unveiled new sanctions on Tuesday targeting people and companies around the globe that it accuses of being fi...