DUBAI: The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions set out \u200bin a June interim agreement with the US are met, Nournews reported Iran\u2019s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as saying on Sunday, a few days after Tehran received Washington\u2019s reply to its diplomatic proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Americans, who say something different in the media, have \u200crecently put \u200cforward proposals through \u200ba \u200cmediator. \u2060But they must \u200bunderstand that \u2060the period of dragging out the process and dictating one-sided demands is over,\u201d Qalibaf was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe position of the Islamic Republic of Iran is completely clear and firm, and the Strait of Hormuz \u2060will not be opened until our \u200cseven conditions, based \u200con the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, \u200bare met.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign \u200cMinister Abbas Araghchi said separately on Sunday \u200cthat a plan put forward by Tehran to resolve its dispute with Washington could lead to the Strait of Hormuz reopening within seven days \u200cif accepted.<\/p>\n
Speaking to foreign ambassadors and diplomats in Tehran, Araghchi said Iran \u2060had \u2060clearly explained its conditions for reopening the strait and that they were linked to commitments the United States would have to accept.<\/p>\n
He added that Tehran hoped Washington would choose diplomacy but warned that Iran was prepared to respond if the United States again chose military action.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they again move toward military solutions, we are more prepared \u200bthan before and \u200bwill take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves,\u201d Araghchi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI: The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions set out \u200bin a June interim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,157952,43,114994,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-635984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-mohammad-bagher-qalibaf","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635984","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=635984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}