The White House received a renewed offer from Iran for ending the war, a senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera on Saturday, putting the next move on President Donald Trump in a conflict that has sent global oil prices soaring.
Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that Tehran had communicated to the Trump administration via Qatari mediators its conditions for ending the war “on all fronts.”
“A response from President Trump is awaited,” Al Jazeera’s report reads.
As paraphrased by Al Jazeera, Tehran presented Trump with three conditions to end the conflict: a halt to hostilities “across the region,” an unfreezing of Iranian assets, and an end to the U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
Should Trump and his administration refuse Iran’s conditions, Rezaei warned, Tehran was well prepared for an extended conflict.
“It is in Washington’s interest to accept Iran’s conditions for exiting the war, [Rezaei] said. Trump’s threats will yield no results, and Iran is prepared for a decisive war. He said the US president’s assessments and calculations regarding Iran were flawed, and that the war was instigated by [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,” Al Jazeera’s report reads.
“Iran knows the US military’s vulnerabilities and is more prepared than ever to counter its air strikes, he said, adding that it recently tested an anti-ship missile near a US aircraft carrier. Iran is serious about defense, Rezaei said, and if attacked, will strike US bases and Washington’s interests in the region with greater force.”
Gas prices in the United States have reached unprecedented heights in recent weeks due to Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, with “the worst still to come,” per The Washington Post.