Iran sees only unacceptable ideas in latest mediation to end war, official says
Qatari mediators have presented Iran with a new draft deal to end the war with the US, an official briefed on the negotiations says, but a senior Iranian official says Doha only put forward unacceptable ideas that did not amount to an offer.
The official briefed on the negotiations, who is not from Iran, says a new draft peace proposal for the eight-month-old conflict was presented on Sunday and was being considered by Tehran, with a response expected by the end of the week.
Qatar, along with Pakistan, has led mediation to end the war, which has disrupted global shipping and oil supplies and recently spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
The proposal presented by Qatar sets a seven-day timeline addressing both Tehran’s and Washington’s concerns, laying out daily confidence-building steps that each side must take, the official briefed on the negotiations says. The timeline could begin early next week and several countries would act as guarantors of the deal, the official adds.
Shortly afterwards, a senior Iranian official involved in the talks says Qatar had presented only “unacceptable ideas and not an offer,” and that Tehran’s policy on showing no flexibility over the nuclear issue remained unchanged.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article closes on a senior Iranian official saying Tehran will show no flexibility on the nuclear issue, but never reports Iran's stated conditions: an end to the US blockade of Iranian ports and the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil exports, nor that Washington wants the nuclear programme negotiated first and that Iran rejects claims its programme is military. Without this a reader takes Iran's rejection as simple refusal rather than a dispute over sequencing and terms.
How we know
- Al-Monitor reported“Washington wants Iran's decades-long nuclear programme to be part of negotiations to end the war from the outset, while Iran says its conditions”Iran sees only unacceptable ideas in latest mediation to end war, official says (opens in a new tab)
- Al-Monitor reported“Iran rejects Western concerns that its nuclear programme is military in nature.”Iran sees only unacceptable ideas in latest mediation to end war, official says (opens in a new tab)
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