TEHRAN
\nIran on Tuesday urged the United States to meet its demands in a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump spoke of \u201cpositive momentum\u201d to end their eight-month war. \u201cThe conflict with Iran will not be resolved through military means, nor by intensifying sanctions,\u201d Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iran\u2019s IRNA news agency.
\n\u201cThe only solution is to adopt a language of respect, engage in diplomacy, and address Iran\u2019s demands and conditions \u2014 which were outlined in the two-day proposal and remain on the table.\u201d Tehran has proposed reopening Hormuz, which it has blockaded since the start of the war, within two days in return for Washington meeting a raft of conditions.
\nThese include ending the war on all fronts, unfreezing Iranian assets, lifting oil sanctions and ending the US counter-blockade of Iranian ports. Trump, whose Republican party last week lost midterm elections in part due to the war, said on Monday that there was \u201cpositive momentum\u201d toward ending the conflict after meeting Qatar\u2019s prime minister at the White House.
\nIn a post on social media, Trump reiterated that the US was \u201clocked and loaded\u201d but said further strikes were \u201cquite unlikely\u201d given that key US allies in the Gulf \u201cwould prefer the status quo.\u201d \u201cWe are seeing positive momentum toward an end to this conflict, and will ensure that America\u2019s interests are at all times protected,\u201d Trump said.
\nDiplomatic efforts, led by Qatar and Pakistan, are underway to find a resolution to the war, which broke out in late February when US-Israeli strikes killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Tuesday, Iran\u2019s security chief Mohsen Rezaei urged Washington to \u201csurrender\u201d to the Iranian demands.
\n\u201cThe war on Iran has already wrecked the US government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler. FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks,\u201d said Rezaei, the head of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN Iran on Tuesday urged the United States to meet its demands in a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump spoke of \u201cpositive momentum\u201d to end their eight-month war. \u201cThe conflict with Iran will not be resolved through military means, nor by intensifying sanctions,\u201d Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iran\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105764,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105748\/revisions\/105764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}