Iran calls US response on Hormuz conditions inadequate

Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei said Sunday that the United States had accepted some of Iran’s seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz but had left other points unclear, prompting Tehran to call Washington’s response inadequate. His account of the US position has not been independently established in the reports, and he did not identify which conditions he said had been accepted. Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Iran had told Washington the strait would not be reopened to the United States and negotiations would not proceed until its conditions were met. He also said Tehran was no longer preparing a further response to Washington, which had already sent its reply. According to Rezaei, the US response was conveyed through Qatari intermediaries. Iran’s proposal, presented during the United Nations General Assembly, offered to restore normal passage through the strait within seven days if its conditions were met. The accounts provided do not detail the full proposal or specify which issues Washington allegedly accepted.