No talks until Iran’s conditions are met: SNSC chief
The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, has said that mixed signals from the US president should not distract anyone from the new realities around oil and the straits, adding that there will be no negotiations until Tehran’s conditions are met.
In a post on his official X account on Monday night, Rezaei wrote: “Don’t get distracted by the U.S. president’s mixed signals—from ‘no negotiations’ to ‘we’re ready to talk.’ The stakes around oil and the straits have changed. Damage control won’t stop what’s coming.”
“No talks until Iran’s conditions are met. Period!” he added.
The warning came hours after US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly,” while claiming he would “determine whether or not the USA will choose to engage,” adding that “the concept of which we are open to.”
That message contradicted Trump’s own earlier line. In August, he wrote that “there are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” insisted the naval blockade remained in force, and falsely claimed the Strait of Hormuz was “open and operating.” The same day, his son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner had said conversations with Iran were “probably more robust than it’s maybe ever been.”
Trump has also swung between threatening to “keep the oil like Venezuela,” saying Iran is “calling constantly” for talks, and asserting that the war will end after the US midterm elections.
Iranian officials have dismissed those claims as propaganda and an attempt to cover Washington’s failure to impose its will on the Persian Gulf.
Rezaei, a former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, has repeatedly made clear that the waterway remains closed and under Iranian control.
He has said any change depends on the United States ending the war and blockade, releasing Iran’s frozen assets, and agreeing to a region-wide ceasefire, including in Lebanon and Gaza.