Iran Threatens to Target Ships in the Indian Ocean

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday that “there will be no return to the previous negotiating terms, nor will passage through the Strait of Hormuz be opened, as long as our conditions are not met, our rights are not recognized, and the United States does not honor its commitments.”

His remarks followed a statement by Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who wrote on X that Iran had presented the U.S. administration with seven conditions for opening negotiations.

Ghalibaf added that “war must be conducted rationally and with strength, and negotiations must be conducted at the right time, with power, strength, and rationality. The narrow waters of Hormuz will not be opened unless Iran’s conditions are fulfilled.”

Rezaei also addressed the issue: “If the war with the United States resumes, Tehran will expand the range of its attacks. American ships, unless they leave the Indian Ocean, will be targets wherever they are found.”

Yesterday, Rezaei told Al Jazeera that his country had conveyed a proposal to the United States to end the war. Rezaei said: “We are in contact with Qatar, which conveyed our conditions for stopping the war to Washington, and we are awaiting a response from President Trump.” According to him, “our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds, and the lifting of the naval blockade.”

In addition, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council said that “the actions of the United States and Israel give us grounds to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Such a decision has not yet been made. If we are attacked, we will strike American bases and Washington’s interests in the region with greater force.”