Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday (25) that a certain degree of understanding had been reached with the United States on several issues, but an agreement was not imminent.
“There is no guarantee that the United States will fulfill its commitments,” Baghaei declared at a press conference in Tehran, the country’s capital.
The spokesman said it was not part of the discussions at this stage and reiterated Iran’s demand that the war end on all fronts, including Lebanon.
Iran seeks to delay negotiations on the details of its nuclear program until a formal end to the war is declared.
Baghaei said Tehran has witnessed constant changes in the Trump administration’s positions.
“Within a few hours, you are faced with completely different and, in many cases, contradictory positions,” he said, adding that this “creates problems for any negotiation process.”
He declined to describe Iran’s plan, characterizing it instead as fees for “services” to be provided, including navigation and environmental protection.
“Any responsible country would welcome the creation of a reliable and predictable mechanism to manage transit and navigation through the Strait of Hormuz,” the spokesperson added.
In addition to the Iranian authority, the , also minimized expectations of an imminent breakthrough towards the end of the war.
Rubio told reporters in New Delhi that the United States will give diplomacy every chance to succeed before exploring “alternatives,” after President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had instructed his officials not to rush into any deal with Iran.
“There is a very solid proposal regarding Iran’s ability to open the Strait, achieve the opening of the Strait, begin a real, meaningful and time-bound negotiation on the nuclear issue, and we hope that we can achieve it,” said the secretary.
Main points of the agreement
Trump raised expectations when he said Washington and Tehran had “largely negotiated” a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that Iran would not charge a toll for passage through the vital strait, but added that it was “normal for the services provided to have a price.”
Before the conflict, the strait was responsible for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments.
The two sides remain at odds over several complex issues, including Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel’s war in Lebanon against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, and Tehran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars in Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.
A senior Trump administration official outlined what he considered the latest contours of the issues under negotiation.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said Iran had agreed “in principle” to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the US naval blockade and to divest itself of Tehran’s highly enriched uranium.
The US understood that Iran’s supreme leader, the , endorsed the general outline of the agreement, he added.
The official dismissed suggestions that Iran would not have agreed to part with its stockpile of enriched uranium. “The question is how,” the official said.
A second senior government official said on Sunday that the proposed framework would give negotiators 60 days to reach a final agreement.
Iranian sources told Reuters that in future steps, “workable formulas” could be found to resolve the dispute over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, including diluting the material under the supervision of the UN nuclear agency.
