Iran wants the U.S. blockade and sanctions to be lifted and Iran’s frozen funds to be released in the latest peace proposal to the United States, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.
“The Iranian proposal to end the war includes the country’s insistence on its right to uranium enrichment and peaceful nuclear activities, an end to conflicts across all fronts including Lebanon, the lifting of the US naval blockade, the release of Iranian assets, compensation by the United States for damage caused during the latest war to support reconstruction efforts, the removal of all unilateral sanctions and UN Security Council resolutions, and the withdrawal of US forces from areas surrounding the Islamic Republic,” the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
The news agency relayed the latest briefing of Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, to the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the Parliament.
A Pakistani source told Reuters that Pakistan had shared the latest proposal with the United States.
Both sides “keep changing their goalposts,” the source told Reuters and added “We don’t have much time.”
Oil prices dropped early on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had paused a planned military strike on Iran to allow negotiations to continue.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, President Trump said “There seems to be a very good chance that they can work something out. If we can do that without bombing the hell out of them, I would be very happy.”
On Monday, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the U.S. had accepted in its new proposal to waive Iran’s oil sanctions during the negotiation period.
However, an anonymous U.S. official who spoke to Reuters denied the U.S. had agreed to such a demand.
On Tuesday, the Iranian IRNA news agency reported that a top Iranian commander warned the United States and its allies against “repeating strategic mistakes or miscalculations regarding Iran.”
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