Ed Miliband meets Iran’s foreign minister as Tehran gives US ultimatum on strait of Hormuz
Senior Iranian officials say Washington has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has met his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for the first time in New York amid warnings from senior Iranian security officials that the US has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz. The…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in New York for the first time in a year. Iranian officials have given the US four to five days to respond to Tehran's conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the supreme national security council, stated during a TV interview that Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Araghchi had arrived in New York to convey Iran's preconditions, not to negotiate new ones.
The seven conditions include lifting US sanctions and ending conflict on all fronts. If the US fails to meet these conditions, Iran will decide its next step, though the details remain unclear. Brent crude was trading at $107 per barrel on Thursday. Araghchi discussed Iran's terms for reopening the strait and the US's response time with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
Rezaei warned that if the US does not fulfill the conditions, Iran would neither reopen the strait nor negotiate.
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