Iran indicates it’s received an official US response to its latest offer on ending the war

Iranian officials indicated Wednesday they have received an official U.S. response to Tehran’s latest proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S. President Donald Trump had publicly rejected just days earlier.

The officials did not say what the response contained, and whether it was a rejection or not. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the U.S. response to President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told the state-run IRNA news agency.

“We will make every effort to bring the agreement to fruition and will firmly stand up for the rights of the Iranian people,” Pezeshkian said. “The agreement must now be based on a win-win strategy.” The Cabinet meeting follows Araghchi’s return to Iran after travelling to New York for the U.N. While there, officials held indirect talks with U.S.

officials and also met with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders. Araghchi briefed the Cabinet on his trip to New York and the meetings he held there, including Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which Mohajerani said had been conveyed through mediators. Araghchi last week said he floated the proposal to reopen the strait in a week if the U.S.

agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, release frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on Iranian oil sales, among other conditions. Trump swiftly rejected the proposal, saying Iran wanted to make a deal because it was “losing so badly” but that its offer “would not be acceptable.” Despite Trump’s public rebuffing, mediators continued working with Iran and the United States on trying to broker a deal to end the fighting and open the strait, according to officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Meawhile, the Trump administration says it is is pushing forward with economic warfare against Tehran as the prospects of the two sides coming to an agreement appears uncertain.

Treasury Department unveiled new sanctions on Tuesday targeting people and companies around the globe that it accuses of being financial facilitators or enablers of Iran’s military supply chain. administration is part of the administration’s “Operation Economic Outcast” campaign, aimed at severing “critical financial li… President Donald Trump had publicly rejected just days earlier.The officials did not say what the response contained, and whether it was a rejection or not.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the U.S.