{"id":4712,"date":"2026-09-19T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:37:10","slug":"iran-says-conditions-to-re-engage-in-talks-end-war-sent-to-us-via-qatar-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"Iran says conditions to re-engage in talks, end war sent to US via Qatar | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran has conveyed a formal set of conditions to Washington through Qatari mediators for ending the war with the United States, the country\u2019s security chief tells Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain in contact with the mediator Qatar, which has conveyed our conditions to Washington with the aim of ending the war. We are awaiting President [Donald] Trump\u2019s response,\u201d Mohsen Rezaei told Al Jazeera\u2019s Tehran bureau chief, Nour Eddine Edghir, in an exclusive interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,\u201d said Rezaei, who took over as secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council about a month ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is in Washington\u2019s interest to accept these conditions. Trump\u2019s threats will not achieve any results. We are prepared for a decisive war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mediators Qatar and Pakistan have been working to re-establish negotiations between the two sides since their memorandum of understanding (MoU) expired<\/a> last month. Regional countries are also seeking an end to the war that began when the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran in late February, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Rezaei did not rule out a new US strike against Iran, calling the possibility \u201cvery much on the cards\u201d based on his country\u2019s military assessments, while insisting Tehran was ready.<\/p>\n

He said Iran\u2019s military planning had shifted since two earlier rounds of conflict and is now focused on US naval assets, stretching from the Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. Targets beyond that range, towards the Indian Ocean, would fall outside Iran\u2019s reach, he added.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s \u2018two-sided, twofold message\u2019<\/h2>\n

Rezaei said Iran had recently test-fired a multi-warhead antiship missile near a US vessel or aircraft carrier, with the warheads potentially subject to further development.<\/p>\n

He also said the intensity of any future Iranian response would be heavy, encompassing US bases in the region as in previous rounds, as well as US commercial interests and companies operating locally.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the war would end soon, he said \u201cin practical terms the war is still going on\u201d, while stressing Tehran was working under a new strategy \u201cto bring this war to an end as soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, described Rezaei\u2019s remarks as part of the \u201ctwo-sided, twofold message\u201d Iran has maintained throughout the conflict \u2013 combining openness to diplomacy with continued war preparations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the one hand, readiness for diplomatic engagement \u2026 on the other hand, he\u2019s talking about preparation for a decisive war,\u201d Asadi said, noting that mediated talks with Qatar and Pakistan were \u201cunder way\u201d, offering \u201ca positive indication regarding the hopes, however slim\u201d for renewed engagement.<\/p>\n

David Des Roches, a former Pentagon director of Arabian Peninsula affairs, told Al Jazeera that Washington was unlikely to see the terms as a serious opening.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first glance, probably not serious; they would be viewed as surrender,\u201d Roches said.<\/p>\n

But he pointed to Iran\u2019s apparent abandonment of an earlier demand for war reparations as a sign of movement. \u201cThe first thing you notice is that he\u2019s dropped the demand for reparations, which the Iranians had made at one point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nuclear weapons; Strait of Hormuz; Yemen\u2019s war<\/h2>\n

On the collapsed MoU, Rezaei rejected US accusations that Tehran violated the deal by striking an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, telling Al Jazeera\u2019s Edghir that Iran\u2019s actions came only after US strikes on Bandar Abbas and an Iranian surveillance platform there.<\/p>\n

He said any agreement, including the MoU, required recourse to a dispute-resolution committee agreed between Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and US Vice President JD Vance, which Washington unilaterally withdrew from.<\/p>\n

On Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, Rezaei said Tehran has not decided to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite having grounds to do so following the US and Israeli attacks, though he said Washington\u2019s conduct \u201cmay push Tehran into withdrawing\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said Iran continues to honour a fatwa (decree) from the former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini prohibiting nuclear weapons and that its doctrine remains unchanged. \u201cBut we do not know what will happen in the future,\u201d he said, citing further sanctions or a UN Security Council referral of Iran\u2019s nuclear file as potential future pressure.<\/p>\n

Rezaei denied Iranian involvement in Yemen\u2019s war, saying Tehran was ready to help mediate between warring parties but did not exploit the conflict \u201cfor its own political ends\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also dismissed widespread speculation, including inside Iran, that Tehran could move to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to pressure global energy markets, saying the waterway \u201cis a Yemeni matter\u201d tied to the conduct of the Houthi movement, not Iran.<\/p>\n

On the Strait of Hormuz, Rezaei said Tehran had come within \u201ca short step\u201d of announcing an agreement with Oman before it was shelved, adding that a deal between the two countries remains ready but may require regional endorsement before being made public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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