IRAN has described the United States’ response to its proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as “insufficient”, with Tehran insisting that the strategic waterway will not be reopened to Washington until seven conditions are fulfilled.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Washington needed to clarify outstanding issues in its response, which was relayed through Qatari intermediaries.
“In their response, they have accepted some of our conditions, while others remain unclear,” Iranian state media quoted him saying on Sunday.
Rezaei said Iran was “no longer in the process of responding to the Americans”, adding that Tehran had made clear that neither the Strait of Hormuz would be opened to the US nor negotiations would take place until its conditions were met.
Iran presented the proposal during the United Nations General Assembly, offering to restore normal maritime passage through the strait within seven days if its conditions were fulfilled.
The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Tehran said in late September that it had received a US response to its latest proposal to revive the collapsed Gulf ceasefire, days after US President Donald Trump said he had rejected the proposal.
Qatar and other mediators have continued to relay messages between Washington and Tehran in efforts to end the conflict and reopen the strait, a vital shipping route that handled about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flows before the war began in late February with US and Israeli attacks on Iran. - October 12, 2026