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Ali Abdollahi Sets Five Conditions for Iran’s Roadmap to Lasting Security
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End to hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon and Gaza, as security roadmap baseline. Conditions link reopening the Strait of Hormuz to resuming Iran-U.S. talks amid mediation.
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Five conditions, new strikes
Iran’s chief of staff, Major-General Ali Abdollahi, laid out five conditions for what he called a roadmap to lasting security, including an end to hostilities on all fronts and the complete lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of Iranian assets, as Qatar said it was “hopeful” about a deal between Tehran and Washington. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Majed al-Ansari said a Qatari delegation met Iranian officials in Tehran for more than three hours on Monday before returning to Doha that evening, and he warned that any escalation, whether attacks on Iranian territory or on shipping, “will have an impact on the negotiations”. Mediators aimed to avert a new round of fighting, and Resul Serdar Atas said “The main issue is the mistrust between the two parties.”
IRNA reported five explosions on Qeshm Island and more blasts heard in Bandar Lengeh, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it downed two US MQM-170 reconnaissance drones south of Qeshm and destroyed an MQ-9 drone east of the strait. President Trump told voters that a deal with Iran to end the still “could happen,” as American forces were near the strait on Monday in response to an apparent Iranian attack targeting a US aircraft.
Qatar mediation, Iran doubts
Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, cast doubt on diplomatic efforts by saying the U.S. response to “Iran's rights and demands was not convincing,” and he insisted Washington must “fully and explicitly address Iran’s seven conditions”.
Esmail Baqaei told reporters that Iran was “not afraid of diplomacy,” while he also said Iran would participate in any diplomatic process only if it was used to “safeguard the interests of the Iranian nation and prevent the escalation of insecurity in the region.”
President Donald Trump signalled progress in talks with Iran and wrote on Truth Social that a deal “could happen,” while Vice President JD Vance said, “We've certainly made some progress. We'll see if we can make some more,”.
Iran’s foreign ministry said Iran was prepared to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in two days if the United States agreed to a set of demands, and a Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on Monday evening to meet with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Qatar’s al-Ansari reiterated that freedom of navigation in Hormuz was nonnegotiable, and Doha condemned the targeting of the Qatari tanker Al-Mayda as the negotiations continued.
What must happen next
Iran’s roadmap tied any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to concrete steps, with Al Jazeera describing Abdollahi’s plan as calling for recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and a guarantee against future aggression under a regional security framework for West Asia. Gulf state officials were “braced for the worst” as they waited for Washington’s response to an Iranian proposal that could reopen the strait before the US midterm elections on Tuesday, and Anwar Gargash said, “We are also, as we have shown before, braced for the worst.” Qatar’s mediation focused on compressing the process by which the US lifts sanctions and then Iran reopens the strait of Hormuz and starts nuclear talks, and Iran agreed to cut the timetable from seven to two days.
Iran’s demands included lifting sanctions and releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, while Trump’s campaign rally warning said at “some point we're going to have to give them the hammer” if no deal was reached. Qatar’s al-Ansari reiterated that freedom of navigation in Hormuz was nonnegotiable, and Doha condemned the targeting of the Qatari tanker Al-Mayda as the negotiations continued.