US-Iran war | Tehran: Must end port blockade, oil sanctions and regional attacks

Moving on, Iran has told Pakistan's army chief that there would be no talks with Washington until Tehran's demands were met, underscoring its hardening stance despite mediation efforts by Pakistan. Well, Muneer was in Tehran as part of a renewed push to broker a peace deal between Iran and the United States. Well, this is General Muneer's fifth trip to Iran following the April truce between Tehran and Washington. Now, according to Iran's official news outlet, IRNA, Interior Minister Mohsen Naqvi was accompanying the Pakistani army chief. Both held a series of meetings with senior Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei. During his meeting with Muneer, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected the idea of negotiations under U.S. threats. He said Washington must first remove the threats and sanctions in order to begin a dialogue. Pezeshkian said he believes U.S. could attack in the midst of negotiations. According to an Iranian readout of the meeting between Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Asim Munir, Ghalibaf said that Washington could not regain Tehran's trust until it fulfilled the seven conditions that Iran set out last month for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the demands included ending a U.S. blockade on its ports, the lifting of sanctions on its oil exports, as well as ending hostilities on all regional fronts. Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei delivered a similar message during a separate meeting with Muneer that Tehran would not allow nuclear material to leave the country. He added that such materials constituted a major asset and were a national wealth for the Iranian people intended for use within the country. Tehran had previously maintained that it would not hand over its nuclear materials enriched to 60%, which is close to the atomic bomb threshold of 90% to any country, but had hinted at the possibility of diluting them within Iran's borders. On Tuesday, Iranian Revolutionary Guards said that their naval mines halted three tankers attempting to travel the Strait of Hormuz via routes considered illegal by Tehran. The guards later said in a statement that all three oil tankers exploded and caught fire after striking a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz. The West Asia war has sparked in late February by the United States and Israel. when they launched a wave of surprise attacks on Iran while Washington and Tehran were in the midst of negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. The warring parties agreed a memorandum of understanding in June mediated by Pakistan and that was expected to create a framework for a permanent resolution to the conflict. But the deal did not last long.