The final version of Iran’s proposal for an interim ceasefire agreement with the United States is still under review and has not been returned to mediators, Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday (2), citing an unnamed “informed source.”
According to the source, “the final version of the Iran deal is still under discussion in Tehran and no official response has been given so far,” the Mehr news agency reported, adding that “the United States’ record of breaking commitments, coupled with long-standing mistrust, has led Iran to approach the issue with extreme caution.”
Iran seeks “real and tangible benefits” from any possible deal, the Mehr news agency said.
This comes a day after state news agency Tasnim said it was due to Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
US President Donald Trump later said that the .
A regional source with knowledge of the negotiations told CNN on Monday night (1st) that talks resumed.
Since mid-March, Trump has repeatedly said he is close to signing a peace deal, but has not yet done so. Despite the ceasefire, Iran and the US several times in the last week.
Meanwhile, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, Esmaeil Qaani, threatened to expand the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to the , another chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea.
Tehran has already blocked maritime traffic in the Persian Gulf, a region that before the war supplied a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas, drastically raising prices.
Remember how the war in Iran began
On February 28, United States President Donald Trump announced a “large-scale” attack on Iran, stating that the country’s main objective was “to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
According to him, these threats included Tehran’s nuclear program – a recurring point of friction that has also hampered the most recent negotiations to end the fighting.
The joint attacks by the US and Israel against the — which resulted in the death of the then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — caused thousands of deaths across the country and damage to dozens of museums, historic buildings and cultural sites, according to Iranian media outlets and authorities.
In response, Iran launched a series of retaliatory attacks across the Middle East and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which about 20% of the world’s oil passes.
Weeks before the start of the war, the Trump administration carried out the biggest in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, triggering warnings about escalating regional violence if a conflict erupted.
At the same time, US envoys held regular talks with Iran about a possible new nuclear deal. But theses were unable to prevent military action, with Trump accusing Iran at the time of rejecting “all opportunities to renounce its nuclear ambitions.”
The outbreak of war in February also followed mass anti-regime protests in Iran the previous month, fueled by economic discontent amid skyrocketing costs.
