According to Mehr, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, has rejected the proposal to hold negotiations with the mediation of the United States. He claimed that the American side demanded too much. "The American side has announced that if this plan is rejected, the negotiations will be considered a failure and they will leave.
Finally, it happened. the American delegation left," Gharibabadi said. He emphasized that the Iranian delegation did not insist on the continuation of negotiations, calling this approach "the honorable diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran". The deputy foreign minister also said that the talks in Oman took place after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
He added that the other side insisted that the southern route remain open until the end of the Iran-Oman negotiations, but the Iranian delegation rejected this proposal. "We have clearly stated that regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, the fundamental policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been clear since the very beginning of the war, and such proposals will not be accepted," Gharibabadi explained.
