Iran has transmitted its response to the US proposal to end the war in the Middle East through Pakistan, state media reported on Sunday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran today sent (Sunday)via the Pakistani mediator, its response to the latest text proposed by the United States,” indicated the official Irna news agency.
This is centered on “the end of the war and maritime security”. “The main focus of Iran’s response to the American proposal concerns the end of the war and maritime security in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” Isna wrote on his Telegram account shortly after.
This Saturday, Iran questioned the seriousness of American diplomacy to end the conflict. A month after the entry into force of a truce, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, expressed this skepticism during a telephone interview with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, the day after new skirmishes in the waters of the Gulf.
Donald Trump expected a quick response
“The recent escalation of tensions by American forces and their multiple violations of the ceasefire reinforce suspicions about the motivation and seriousness of the American side on the path to diplomacy,” said Abbas Araghchi, quoted by the Iranian agency Isna.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Ismaïl Baghaï, quoted by state television, told him on Friday that Tehran was still studying the American proposal aimed at putting a lasting end to hostilities. Donald Trump expected to receive a response “very soon”, the LCI television channel reported on Saturday, after a brief interview with the American president. He had already said the day before that he expected to receive “a letter” in the evening.
Since the start of the war on February 28, triggered by an Israeli-American attack against Iran, Tehran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, to which Washington responded by imposing a blockade of Iranian ports on April 13.
The American army announced on Friday that it had “neutralized” by air two Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, the gateway to the strait, a strategic passage for the world trade in hydrocarbons. If the ships were not carrying cargo according to the army, the images broadcast by the American military command for the region (Centcom) showed thick columns of smoke escaping from the cockpits. Tehran had denounced to the UN a “flagrant violation” of the truce.
