Iran rejects U.S. ceasefire offer, demands sovereignty over Strait of Hormuz

WED, MAR 25 2026 (1/2)

KEY POINTS

• Iran will not accept a ceasefire offer from the U.S., Iranian state media reported.

• The FARS News Agency state media outlet said there have been increased U.S. efforts to put a ceasefire into effect and begin indirect talks with Iran.

• The Associated Press reported that Iran has received President Donald Trump’s 15-point peace plan.

Iran rejected a U.S. ceasefire offer and has laid out its own list of conditions for ending the war, Iranian state media reported Wednesday.

State broadcaster Press TV, citing a senior political-security official with knowledge of the details of the proposal, reported that Iran’s five-point counteroffer would give Tehran control over the Strait of Hormuz.

That may be a nonstarter for the U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday floated the possibility that the crucial oil-shipping route could be controlled jointly by “me and the ayatollah.”

Iran also seeks war-related reparations, the official told the state news outlet.

Here is Iran’s complete list of conditions, according to Press TV:

•A complete halt to “aggression and assassinations” by the enemy.

• The establishment of concrete mechanisms toensure that the war is not reimposed on the Islamic Republic.

• Guaranteed and clearly defined payment ofwar damages and reparations.

• The conclusion of the war across all fronts and for all resistance groups involved throughout the region.

•Iran’s exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is and will remain Iran’s natural and legal right, and it constitutes a guarantee for the implementation of the other party’s commitments, and must be recognized.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/iran-war-us-trump.html

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Earlier Wednesday, the Fars News Agency, another state media outlet, citing what it called an informed source, said there have been increased U.S. efforts to enact a ceasefire and start indirect talks with Iran to end the war.

• “Iran does not accept a ceasefire,” that source told FARS, according to a translation of the news site’s Telegram page that reported the interview.

•“Basically, it is not logical to enter into such a process with those who violate the agreement,”the source said.

The source also told Fars that Iran intends to realize its strategic goals in the war,and that only when that happens will there be a possibility of ending the conflict, the outlet reported. (Little do the know Trump might unleash the dogs of Israel with Bibi leading them with glee.)

The conflict began Feb. 28 with strikes by the U.S. and Israel against the Islamic Republic.

Earlier Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Iran has received Trump’s 15-point peace plan.

Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. and Iran are currently in negotiations. Iran has denied there are any direct negotiations.

(This is where they got Trump and it, all wrong, they seemingly think Trump’s always a nice person.They really haven’t experienced the real Anger of Revenge!When Trump was asked. the question on an interview;

Interviewer; “who is the tank?”

Trump responds:I’m the tank!”

Trump is literally the tank in the Iran War! And the idiots in Iran haven’t seen nothing yet!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/iran-war-us-trump.html

Why Mohammad Ghalibaf Could Be A Critical Cog In Trump's Iran Project(1/2)

The world is now 26 days into a war it did not want and cannot afford - one that has devoured over 3,000 lives across the Middle East, burned through hundreds of billions of dollars, and shocked global energy markets into a crisis underlined by benchmark Brent crude holding above the US$100 red line for 12 consecutive days.

It has also triggered a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing over four million people across the region.

On Monday Donald Trump teased an end to the US-led war. "Nobody knows who to talk to, but we're actually talking to the right people… they want to make a deal so badly" he said,throwing another curveball into a wartime narrative that has zigged as often as it has zagged.

He would not reveal the identity of Washington's potential partner, or even future head of state,in this, another of the US' barely-disguised regime change operations. But such information rarely stays a secret.

Reports =named Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf – the 64-year-old who reportedly called Trump a "filthy criminal==" in a televised statement and vowed to make him "beg for mercy" – as the President's 'right person' in Tehran.

Trump told CNN's Kaitlan Collins his 'partner' is a "very reasonable, respected" person.

Ghalibaf has personally denied any talks with Washington.

On X he said, "No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped."

Screenshot from X post by @mb_ghalibaf

But then again he would say that, forto admit to a power grab that displaces the current tegime paints a bright red bullseye on his back.

Who is Mohd Ghalibaf?

Born to Kurdish-Persian parents in 1961 near Mashhad, a Shiite pilgrim hub in Iran's northeast,Ghalibaf is an expert in human and political geography. He married Zahra Sadat Moshir in 1982 – their wedding officiated by Khomenei - and has three children.

CNN describedhim as a 'war veteran with a record of suppressing dissent', marking him out straight away as a choice at odds with Trump's professed support for civilians targeted by the Iranian regime in the December-January protests.

But his standing for presidential elections five times between 2005 and 2024 indicates he is looking for a position of power, and could, therefore, be open to cutting a deal with Washington.

The choice, though, may have been driven by necessity rather than idealism, having assassinated a clutch of senior Iranian leaders over the past 26 days, beginning with Khamenei and his right-hand man, national security chief Ali Larijani.

Multiple Middle East experts have said Ghalibaf has connections across various power centres, including the IRGC thatmany believe is waging war on autopilot, functioning off a decentralised playbookestablished by Khamenei, and a political base at the Parliament."He is the guy running the show," Hamidrez Azizi from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs told CNN.

The war hero + mayor past

A battle-hardened combat pilot and military intelligence operative,Ghalibaf fits the ;conservative Iranian' stereotype– wartime past, served in the Revolutionary Guards Corps, and loyal to Khamenei.But he is also seen as a pragmatist and a technocrat.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-iran-war-donald-trump-ghalibaf-iran-war-peace-talks-regime-change-11264325

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Three degrees, including a doctorate in political geography, and a past role as Mayor of Tehran for 12 years, indicating familiarity with governance and administrative issues.

His time as Mayor saw positive progress on the city's infrastructure and housing fronts, improving and expanding urban transportation and building entire residential neighbourhoods.

But it was also marred by corruption scandals that dented his 'competent manager' image.

He is a "quintessential insider: ambitious..yet fundamentally committed to the preservation of Iran's Islamist order", Ali Vaez, a senior analyst at Brussels-based International Crisis Group told Politico.

But that simultaneously makes him an unlikely option for Washington, andcertainly not if Trump expects to extract concessionsaround Iran's nuclear programme and/or the Strait of Hormuz. On March 17 he told an Iranian TV channel theStrait of Hormuz “cannot return to its previous legal and operational conditions”.

His is a "security first" approach, Azizi said, pointing toviolent putdown of student-led, pro-reform protestsin 1999 and again in 2003.

And even if Ghalibaf would want to deal with the US over Hormuz,he would almost definitely be held back by Tehran power centres that have become even more deeply distrustful of the Americans since Feb 28.

The Trump-Ghalibaf fit

For Trump,Ghalibaf is a critical cog in his Iran project, the pivot from prolonged military aggressionthat is drawing heat back home to a point where the US could potentially walk away from the Middle East after another 'successful' regime change operation.

Ghalibaf,a Trump administration official told Politico,could also be the President's Delcy Rodriguez in Tehran. Rodriguez was installed by Washington as the Venezuela President after US forces captured Nicolas Maduro.

"It's all about installing someone like a Delcy Rodríguez. … we say, 'We're going to keep you there. We're going to not take you out. You're going to work with us.You're going to give us a good deal, a first deal on the oil,'” the official said.

Trump wants Ghalibaf to be Iran's Delcy Rodriguez, officials claimed (File)

Could that work? Maybe.

But Ghalibaf would certainly not be as pliable in Washington's hands as Rodriguez appears to be. And that assumes Trump can make good on any promise to install Ghalibaf as the new Iranian leader, particularly with the IRGC and the regime's hackles raised.

There have also been suggestions Ghalibaf may be a smokescreen, a way for Trump and the US to buy time to get oil prices down and get some of the domestic and international pressure off the White House's back.

"He's definitely buying time…" a Gulf official told Politico,"What's harder to knowis if he's serious about an off-ramp or if he's putting unrealistic demands out there so that Iran will say no."

In any event,Ghalibaf may not be the only 'right person' Washington is talking to.

The New York Times, citing unnamed officials, alsosaid there had held "direct communication" betweenIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff"in recent days" – although neither side has confirmed this.

Both the Foreign Minister and the Speaker have reportedly been offered 'immunity' by the US during the five-day pause in hostilities.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-iran-war-donald-trump-ghalibaf-iran-war-peace-talks-regime-change-11264325

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