Rezaei says U.S. response to Iran's war conditions falls short
Iran's IRGC says a third supertanker has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz in two days, as mediation efforts continue without a signed deal.
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Map: The Gulf and Hormuz, marking Strait of Hormuz
Major General Rezaei said the U.S. response to Iran's conditions for ending the war is inadequate, and that Iran will not return to the way it conducted diplomacy in the past.
The comment comes as Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported a third supertanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz in roughly two days. The Guard said the vessel had switched off its navigation system and ignored warnings while trying to leave the strait. The strikes come despite President Trump's earlier claim that flows through Hormuz were running at record highs.
Tension has widened beyond the tankers. UK Prime Minister Burnham said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is almost certainly behind the Fairford incident. Foreign Minister Araghchi has said he offered Saudi mediation after Houthi strikes, though Riyadh's own account of the call made no mention of any mediation offer. Trump has repeated that the situation will end soon and that prices will fall once the war is over, without adding new terms on talks, sanctions or military timing.
Rezaei's statement extends a sequencing standoff that has defined this cycle for weeks, with Tehran again rejecting Washington's terms rather than softening them. Mediators are still working the Qatari channel, and repeated deadlines have slipped without a signed deal, so the statement reads as a continuation of the stalemate rather than a new escalation. Because similar hardline statements have often been followed by renewed mediation rather than a breakdown, the practical effect is to leave the Hormuz-linked risk premium in crude unresolved rather than clearly higher or lower.