Mohsen Rezaee

[news jingle plays] In Iran, a senior official has reiterated his country will not negotiate with the United States until its conditions are met.

Mohsen Rezaei is Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

He wrote in a social media post on Tuesday, "People should not get distracted by the US president's mixed signals." He added, "The stakes around oil and the straits have changed." This comes amid reports that Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have seized control of key areas around the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

This is a vital waterway at the mouth of the Red Sea, serving as an alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, the senior Iranian official has reiterated his country will not negotiate with the US until its conditions are met.

Mohsen Rezaei is Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

He said in a social media post on Tuesday, people should not get distracted by the US president's mixed signals.

He also said the stakes around oil and the straits have changed.

Meanwhile, a senior Iranian official has reiterated his country will not negotiate with the US until its conditions are met.

Mohsen Rezaei is secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

He said in a social media post on Tuesday, people should not get distracted by the US president's mixed signals.

He also said the stakes around oil and the straits have changed.

The U.N. Security Council has called for freedom of navigation, but a declaration alone cannot reopen the route.

Iran has ruled out any negotiations with the United States until its conditions are met, with Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei warning Washington that the strategic equations surrounding oil and regional waterways have changed, and that attempts to contain the consequences of the conflict will not alter what lies ahead.

Mohsen Rezaei is Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, so this is a senior Iranian body laying out its position.

No U.S. talks until Tehran's conditions are met.

And those conditions start with ending U.S. attacks and lifting the port blockade.

What are officials in Iran saying at this hour?

Yeah, we have heard from a representative of Iran's supreme leader who's posted on X to say there will be no talks until Iran's conditions are met, period, Mohsen Rezaei saying.

Don't get distracted by the US president's mixed signals from no negotiations to we're ready to talk.

He also says the stakes around oil and the straits have changed.

But as Jude Russo reports, a diplomatic resolution still looks distant.

Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran's National Security Council, dismissed President Trump's suggestion that talks could be imminent, writing that there would be no talks until Iran's conditions are met.

The Pentagon's Inspector General has released its first report to Congress on the war, covering April through June.

The report found that munitions expenditure in Operation Epic Fury has, in its words, "resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply." It also flagged difficulties in securing naval basing in the Persian Gulf and the strain of relying on Diego Garcia for logistics.

Of course,

Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Brigadier General, he said 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 and that includes things like full american withdrawal from the middle east restitution being paid war damages and all sorts of other things so of course israel needs to withdraw from lebanon none of these things have occurred so That's why we're in this current state with tankers continuing to be struck, America trying to downplay things, trying to kind of lie about how much oil is really making it through.

And meanwhile, the Iranians are doing minimal besides just targeting the few tankers that try to make it through.

They've targeted the U.S. blockade of the ships, and the U.S. has been afraid to respond.

Iran is hardening its negotiating position as commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz falls to a fraction of normal levels.

Planned Oman-hosted talks involving Iran and Gulf States have been postponed, while Iranian security official Mohsen Rezaei says negotiations with Washington will not resume until Tehran's conditions are met.

Preliminary tracking recorded only four commodity vessel transits through Hormuz on Monday, compared with roughly one hundred and twenty-five large commercial vessels daily before the war.

Although untracked vessels may make the true figure higher.