Naqvi due in Iran for talks as Hormuz terms conveyed

TEHRAN: With Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi due in Iran for talks on Sunday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that terms for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz have been clearly conveyed to the United States through mediators.

“Our messages and the explanation of our conditions have been clearly conveyed to the other party through mediators,” said Iran’s chi­ef negotiator in talks to end the war.

“As long as the conditions are not met… and the US commitments are not honoured, it will be impossible to return to the situation from before the negotiations and to an open strait,” he added.

In a post on X, Mr Ghalibaf wrote, “It’s Schrödinger: the em­­pire is in the SOH [Strait of Hor­muz] cabinet with falling plates, projecting hegemony but fully exposed, trying to suffocate Iran without blowback (impossible).”

“This endgame cannot be modelled. It will be opened, and Iran’s hand is already on the lever,” he said, sharing a recent note by JPMorgan wherein analysts said they “simply don’t know how to model the endgame” to the oil market crisis.

Also, Mohsen Rezaei, the head of supreme national security council, earlier said Iran had conveyed its conditions to the US via mediator Qatar. “Our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,” he said, in an interview with Al Jazeera.

He warned that the US would face an Iran that was better prepared than at the start of the war.

The Iranian security chief said Iran had increased the speed of its hypersonic missiles from Mach-6 to Mach-10, improved air defences and developed electronic warfare systems. “Therefore should war break out again, US ships, unless they withdraw from the Indian Ocean, will be subject to attack.”

Also, Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya central military command warned that if the US made a mistake in dealing with Iran, all of its bases and interests in the region would become the target of continuous, effective and painful attacks, without any limit or restraint.

Published in Dawn, September 21st, 2026