Iran FM meets with US envoy on UN meeting’s sidelines at American side’s insistence: Report
At the insistence of the American side, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has met with the United States’ regional envoy Steve Witkoff on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s 81st meeting, a report says.
The news outlet affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Iran’s national broadcaster, carried the report on Tuesday, citing an exclusive IRIB source.
According to the source, “Iran agreed to Witkoff’s request for the meeting in order to convey Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iran’s “firm positions” were communicated to the US representative during the meeting, it noted.
Iran’s conditions
The source identified the conditions specified by the Islamic Republic during the meeting as the immediate lifting of the illegal naval blockade that the United States has imposed on Iranian ports and vessels, the immediate release of all of Iran’s frozen assets, and “an end to the war on all resistance fronts.”
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Iran closed the chokepoint following the launch of the latest round of unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the country on February 28.
The Islamic Republic and the United States agreed on a 60-day reopening period as part of a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding in June.
Iran devised the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), an authority tasked with managing legal transit through the strait, towards implementation of the understanding, but American violations forced the Islamic Republic to reestablish the closure.
As part of Iran’s efforts at enforcing the closure, the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces have been targeting the vessels trying to illegally cross the chokepoint under American escort.
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Tehran has, meanwhile, warned ship owners, charterers, and buyers against buying into Washington’s pledges of “protection” for the vessels seeking to illegally cross the waterway.
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