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Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei delivered Tehran's six conditions to end the war with the US via Qatari mediators in an Al Jazeera interview, as escalating tanker attacks push oil prices past $100 and the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed.

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**Mohsen Rezaei** laid out Iran's six conditions to end the war with the US in a Saturday Al Jazeera interview, delivered via Qatari mediators after the June 17 60-day memorandum of understanding expired last month.

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**Iran's demands** include ending the war on all fronts (especially Lebanon), releasing billions in frozen funds, lifting the US naval blockade on Iranian ports, ending US interference in internal affairs, halting cooperation with "opponents of the revolution," and stopping all US attacks on Iranian territory.

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By Al Jazeera · Summarized & edited by Kapil Samant · 2026-09-20

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Mohsen Rezaei laid out Iran's six conditions to end the war with the US in a Saturday Al Jazeera interview, delivered via Qatari mediators after the June 17 60-day memorandum of understanding expired last month.
Iran's demands include ending the war on all fronts (especially Lebanon), releasing billions in frozen funds, lifting the US naval blockade on Iranian ports, ending US interference in internal affairs, halting cooperation with "opponents of the revolution," and stopping all US attacks on Iranian territory.
The conflict began in late February following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran; since the MoU lapsed, attacks have escalated around the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has in effect closed while the US maintains a blockade of Iran's southern ports.
Oil prices crossed $100 per barrel in recent weeks as attacks on tankers in Hormuz compounded with effective Houthi control of the Red Sea route Saudi Arabia uses to export crude.
Rezaei notably did not repeat Tehran's prior demand for war reparations — a concession analyst David Des Roches flagged as a sign of movement, even as he said Washington would likely view the overall terms as "surrender."
Rezaei said Iran could withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in the future but still abides by Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa banning nuclear weapons; he denied any Iranian role in Yemen and offered Tehran as a mediator between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.
The US has not formally responded, but on Saturday warned citizens in Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Jordan to exercise "heightened vigilance"; President Donald Trump cut his Camp David weekend short and returned to Washington without explanation.
Analyst Rob Geist Pinfold of King's College London said Trump "very much wants a deal to wind up the war before the midterms," though he noted "significant substantive gaps" make a comprehensive agreement unlikely soon.

Why it matters: Iran's conditions largely replicate what was on the table in the June MoU, but the omission of war reparations suggests Tehran is willing to negotiate — a signal that matters because Trump is publicly eager for a deal before November's midterms and oil prices have crossed $100 amid attacks on tankers in Hormuz. Adel Abdel Ghafar of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says Iran is "putting the ball in Trump's court," betting that war-weariness and the electoral calendar will shift Washington's calculus even as both sides remain at impasse over the naval blockade.