Iran sets 7 conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz, resuming talks: Official

Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz or return to negotiations until seven new conditions presented through intermediaries are met, said Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Anadolu reports. “We will not return to the diplomacy of the past, yet we are not abandoning diplomacy altogether,” Rezaei said in a statement carried by ISNA news agency, adding that Tehran was “no longer interested in agreements whose only guarantee was political good faith.” He said Iran’s preference was “de-escalation,” but “the longer the US prolonged the war, the stronger Iran would become, although this was not what Tehran wanted.” Rezaei also warned that if the war resumed, Iran would use new capabilities to target US assets in […]