File Photo: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gives a news conference in Tehran. AFP
The exact contents of the US plan, conveyed to Iran via Pakistan according to Pakistani officials, are not officially known.
"Iran's response to the 15 points proposed by the US was officially sent last night through intermediaries, and Iran is awaiting the other side's response," Tasnim reported, citing an informed source.
Citing an “informed source”, the news agency said Iran sent the response last night through intermediaries. In its response, Iran has stipulated its own conditions for an end to the conflict, which were also reported yesterday by other Iranian media outlets. Those conditions include:
- An end to “aggression and terror”.
- Guarantees preventing the recurrence of war against Iran.
- Compensation for war damage and reparations.
- End of war “on all fronts” and against “all resistance groups” across the Middle East.
- Recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, stating that it is Tehran’s “natural and legal right”.
Tasnim reported that these conditions are separate from the demands presented to the other side in the second round of talks in Geneva before the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran in February.
In further comments, translated from Persian below, the news agency said:
The informed source, however, stressed: "It is clear to Iran that the US claim of negotiation is merely a ‘third deception project’, and that the Americans are pursuing several objectives under the guise of their claim to negotiate: First, deceiving the world by presenting an apparently peace-loving image and a desire to end the war; second, keeping the price of oil low globally; and third, buying time to prepare for a new act of aggression in southern Iran via a ground invasion."
He noted: "If Iran had doubts about the outcome of the negotiations and America’s adherence to agreements before the 12-day war, since the 12-day war, it has had complete doubts about America’s very willingness to negotiate at any point. The Americans started the war during negotiations in both the 12-day war and the war of Ramadan, and this time too, under the guise of negotiations, they are seeking to lay the groundwork for a new crime."
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