Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the strategic shipping route will stay blockaded until Washington accepts terms relayed via mediators. The conditions for reopening the waterway, a critical corridor for global oil and gas, were conveyed Sunday as part of efforts to end the Middle East war. Ghalibaf, who is serving as the chief negotiator, stated that a return to an open strait is impossible until the US fulfills commitments under a peace deal signed in June.

Tehran has outlined seven specific demands to resume talks, while advocating for a strategy of simultaneous military action and diplomacy. General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces, rejected a US Central Command claim that over 1 billion barrels of oil passed through the strait over the past two months, describing it as a failed psychological operation. President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly in New York.