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Tehran, Iran While the United States is waiting for Tehran’s latest response contract text modified through mediators, Iranian officials and government-related media emphasize that they consider control over the Strait of Hormuz more important than ever.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters on Saturday that Iran was still evaluating Washington’s offer.
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“We do our jobs, we don’t pay attention to deadlines or time,” he said, referring to when US President Donald Trump is expected to respond to Iran.
Without taking any action, the Iranian authorities continue to show that they have a high position on their doctrine of the Strait, perhaps in opposition to the nuclear program that the country has been allowed for many years.
Iran’s religious and military establishment has “ignored the blessings” of the crisis for years, said Mohamad Mohkber, a top adviser to assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and first vice president under Ebrahim Raisi.
“Of course, it is possible on the level of an atomic bomb, because when you have the ability to affect the entire world economy with one thought, that is a great possibility,” he told the Mehr news agency on Friday.
Mokhber said the authorities will not give up control of “what we have gained in this war” and will try to “change the government” of the strait through international means or domestic laws passed by the parliament controlled by hardliners.
Mohammad Reza Aref, the current vice president, said that Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz will work against the sanctions that the US has suspended, including sanctions. the goal is to reduce fuel consumptionwhich is increasing every week.
“We will no longer face the so-called sanctions, because with the recent behavior of Trump and the enemies, our freedom and our views on the problem have been fixed, so I don’t think we will face any more problems,” he said on Thursday.
Aref said that “Iran’s control will ensure the safety of this road and benefit all countries in the region”.
‘Useless for us, useless for all’
State television drew some parallels to the early Muslims, and how they defeated the battle of Uhud near Medina nearly 1,400 years ago, when the archers left the right path despite the Prophet Muhammad’s advice, which allowed the horsemen to attack from the rear.
Hossein Hosseini, director of the port of Ofogh, told viewers on Saturday morning that the Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s Uhud channel, which, if abandoned, could lead to its defeat.
“The wise people of Iran are careful not to stop going to Uhud, not to take revenge. The conditions of the strait will not return to what they were before; the enemies should know this,” he said.
A series of messages written by Mojtaba Khamenei since he succeeded his father as supreme leader after the outbreak of war also emphasized the need to maintain control above the water.
But the administration wants to say that it has pondered and discussed the possible impact of the conflict in the south of Iran in the big water before the war with the US and Israel.
Several government sources on Friday released excerpts of a speech he gave decades ago to former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a senior cleric who died in 2017. Rafsanjani says Iran is not threatening to close the deal without reason, since this move also hurts Iran.
“We have always emphasized that we will close the Strait of Hormuz at a time when the Persian Gulf is not used for us. If the Persian Gulf is not used for us, we will make the Persian Gulf not used for others; this has been our policy,” he said in an unspecified statement to reporters gathered at the parliament.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and US warships have exchanged fire along the route in recent days, as Washington continues to block Iranian ports and consider further “Project Rights” work, while the ceasefire reached last month is said to be still in place.
Insider views on negotiations with the US
Various aspects of the talks between the US and Iran are being discussed daily by Iranian officials, who claim to have won the war.
Hardliners, who have to be stable because of the war, he strongly opposes any major concessions on Iran’s nuclear program, its weapons or any other issue. Some say that nuclear enrichment or the removal of heavy material buried under the debris of weapons detonated by the US and Israel should not be discussed at all.
Ali Khezrian, a Tehran representative who is a member of the National Security Commission of Parliament, told state media on Friday, citing unnamed officials, that Iran “has not participated in nuclear negotiations”.
He said the Trump administration is presenting a “lie” of a possible nuclear deal with the aim of “paying for defeat in war”.
Mahdi Kharratiyan, a foreign policy analyst, told state television that “it would be a dream and a delusion” to think that an agreement with Washington could lift all sanctions and allow Iran to develop through trade, so Tehran should move on from China.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in China for key meetings last week, but the ambassador has not been spared internal criticism for his role in trying to advance talks with the US.
Hardline lawmakers like Mahmoud Nabavian, who was in the group most of the participants in the discussion group participating in negotiations with the US in Pakistan in April, they went as far as to call for the removal of Araghchi from the process and the group leader Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
“It is appropriate for Mr. Ghalibaf to completely terminate the group of men of the JCPOA agreement,” said Nabavian on X, referring to the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers that stopped Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump undermined the deal in 2018.
