Iran International

On Tuesday, Iranian media reported that Rezaei briefed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and an official statement said Khamenei called for ensuring that Iran's conditions for ending the war were met.

Iran International reported that Rezaei also met a Houthi representative, Ibrahim al-Dailami, in Tehran and praised Houthi operations against Israel.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bekiah had said Monday that the American side was not serious about negotiations.

Pozeshkin spent Tuesday in Moscow at the Gassik Sporting Countries Forum Summit.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant added the economic front.

In an interview with Iran International, he predicted that Iran's economy would contract by more than 25% between March of this year and March of next year, a decline he compared with the Soviet Union's after its collapse.

He said there had been no oil loadings at Karg Island and that the next eight weeks of pressure would be more intense than the last eight.

The figures and forecasts belong to an American official and none of them has been independently verified.

A more alarming strand came from the parliament.

A senior lawmaker who chairs one of its committees, Mohammad Saleh Joker, was reported by Iran International to have called last Thursday for the authorities to permit the use of deterrent weapons, including nuclear weapons, in the event of an American attack, and for Iran to suspend its cooperation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

He also warned that any country allowing American forces to use its territory or airspace would pay a heavy price.

Two cautions apply.

Iran International is an outlet opposed to the Iranian government.

And the remarks were relayed by others rather than independently confirmed here.

And Joker is one voice.

Tehran's own messaging was combative on Saturday.

Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ali Abdullahi said, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency as relayed by Iran International, that Iran would not allow American military vessels to enter the Persian Gulf under any circumstances.

That followed a threat from the guards earlier in the week to hit American bases if the United States kept escorting commercial ships.

Iran's army chief separately said the country was fully prepared for asymmetric warfare, according to Diznim as cited by CNBC.

I mean, I was pleasantly surprised to see at least a couple of non-Persian media pick it up, because I think that the Persian media, you can almost always, honestly, rely on the Persian media to pick up what we write about, almost always, which is great.

But I think that for us to have an impact outside of Iranian media, the Iranian speaking world and diaspora I think is perhaps sometimes more impactful in changing perspectives and raising awareness and so for example the Free Press published a piece about the confiscation or the perhaps the threat of eviction I think it was at the time and then Iran International so I know that that's it is Persian speaking but it was the English language podcast that Negar Mottahedi if I pronounce it correctly hosts And so they did a feature on it as well, and interviewed Mansour Bourji, our director as well.

So I was really pleased to see it getting some mainstream attention, and I'm sure that your contribution has helped in that.

And just getting back to what you mentioned regarding the communication that was made public, or rather the response that was made public, i remember that one uh and i remember the the sort of uh the wording although i don't have it in front of me but regarding security security charges and things like that earlier i was i was looking back at article 18 of the international covenant on civil and political rights and also universal declaration of human rights and that's obviously what we we are named after and it's the bit as you well know regarding freedom of religion or belief but i i noticed that it has the the element of um i forget the wording exactly but it's regarding uh you can only there are national security grounds out there for limiting that freedom.

In an interview with News Nation, he was asked whether negotiations with Iran were still going on.

By the account carried by Iran International, he said they were a little, and then said the United States would have something one way or the other fairly soon.

He added that most people seemed to think it would come after the election.

Later, at a rally in South Carolina, he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would turn the United States into a tinderbox, and he said the country was doing very well against Iran, militarily and financially.

On social media, Arachi said Iran was prepared to give diplomacy another chance if it saw sincere American intent and warned that a choice of war would end in an even greater strategic failure.

The message from Galibaf, who has led Iran's negotiating team, was harder.

According to Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadith, as relayed by Iran International, Galibaf told Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, in Tehran that Iran had nothing new to discuss with America and that Washington could regain Iranian trust only by implementing Tehran's seven conditions.

The same report said Mounir met the security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, sought to reduce escalation, raise the Houthis, and said Pakistan regarded Saudi Arabia as of great importance.

That account rested entirely on those sources.

The Financial Times, as relayed by Iran International, described a related episode.

According to three people familiar with the plans, Netanyahu urged the Israeli military earlier this month to prepare a major multi-day offensive, including strikes on nuclear facilities, for the weekend of October 10.

The operation did not go ahead, the sources said, because President Trump opposed restarting the conflict before the midterms.

President Trump has issued sharp warnings before without proportionate follow-through, a pattern that sources described to the Wall Street Journal in late September.

And on the Iranian side, officials told Reuters on Tuesday that Tehran still expected bombing to restart sooner or later.

Reuters, as relayed by Iran International, also cited senior Iranian officials saying Iran was deliberately prolonging talks past the midterms while preparing for possible renewed strikes.

Preparations continued in the background.