{"id":478134,"date":"2026-06-05T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:58:08","slug":"military-advisor-to-khamenei-says-donald-trump-brought-talks-to-a-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478134\/","title":{"rendered":"Military advisor to Khamenei says Donald Trump brought talks ‘to a standstill’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Negotiations between the United States and Iran “are at a deadlock,” Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s military advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>, told CNN in an interview on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Trump must break this deadlock,\u201d said Rezaei<\/a>. “The ball is in Trump\u2019s court.”<\/p>\n

A senior Iranian official told CNN that negotiations currently depend on the US releasing $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, with $12 billion released upon the signing of the potential agreement and the remaining funds released at a later date.<\/p>\n

Rezaei framed the demand as a test for US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is a test that America must pass, and the path will be opened,\u201d Rezaei said. \u201cThis is our own money, not America\u2019s money.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further warned that the Islamic Republic would expand the war<\/a> beyond the Persian Gulf if hostilities resume, noting that he considered the possibility of war to be low.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will give another dimension to the war by attacking these other American bases that we have been attacking so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Regarding a potential US ground invasion of Iran, Rezaei told CNN that the regime is prepared for such a scenario.<\/p>\n

“The world will understand Iran\u2019s true capabilities,” said Razaei. “Our land power is many times greater than our missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He framed the recent war as an Iranian victory, describing it as “the first time Iran has emerged victorious in wars.”<\/p>\n

“In previous wars, Iran has always been defeated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Rezaei further told CNN that he was not interested in meeting Trump, accusing the US President of bringing the talks “to a standstill.”<\/p>\n

He doubted the possibility of reaching a nuclear agreement with the US due to what he called Trump’s “ambiguity” strategy and his withdrawal from the 2015 deal during his first term.<\/p>\n

He also emphasized that Iran and Oman maintain sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, describing the regime’s demand for ships to pay a passage toll as a “maintenance fee.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations between the United States and Iran “are at a deadlock,” Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s military advisor to Supreme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,141303,159370,43,40,38,41,39,2586,2201],"class_list":["post-478134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-negotiations","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}