Iran ties Hormuz reopening to seven conditions as diplomacy continues

Iran’s foreign minister says the Strait of Hormuz could reopen within seven days if Washington accepts Tehran’s proposal. But its parliament speaker has delivered a firm message: the waterway will not open before seven Iranian conditions are fulfilled. The statements on Sunday, reported by Khaleej Times, put the terms of a diplomatic agreement at the centre of any reopening, with Tehran presenting both a possible timetable and a clear condition for moving ahead.

Parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf made his remarks a few days after Iran received the US response to its diplomatic proposal. Khaleej Times, citing Nournews’s account of his comments, reported that he linked reopening to seven conditions laid out in a June interim agreement with the United States. He identified the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding as the basis for those demands.

Seven conditions, one firm position

Ghalibaf said Washington had recently sent proposals through a mediator, while making different statements publicly. He accused the United States of prolonging the process and seeking to impose demands on its own terms. His message was that Tehran would no longer accept that approach. He described Iran’s position as clear and firm, with fulfilment of its conditions required before the strait could reopen.

Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until Iran’s seven conditions under the Islamabad memorandum were met, according to Nournews, as reported by Khaleej Times.

The report does not list the seven conditions or set out the contents of Washington’s reply. It also does not detail the proposals Ghalibaf said had arrived through a mediator. That leaves the public account focused on Iran’s stated threshold for reopening, rather than the specific commitments needed to reach it. The June agreement is the framework Ghalibaf cited for that position.

A seven-day possibility, not a reopening date

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered a separate account of the diplomatic route on Sunday. Addressing foreign ambassadors and diplomats in Tehran, he said Iran’s plan to resolve its dispute with Washington could allow the strait to reopen within seven days if accepted. That timetable was conditional on acceptance of the proposal; he did not announce an agreed date for reopening.

Araghchi said Tehran had clearly explained the conditions attached to reopening the strait. Those conditions, he added, were connected to commitments the United States would need to accept. His remarks placed the next step within the diplomatic process, rather than presenting reopening as a decision Iran had already agreed to carry out independently of an arrangement with Washington.

The foreign minister also said Iran hoped the United States would choose diplomacy. Alongside that appeal, he warned that Tehran was better prepared than before to respond if Washington returned to military action and would take the steps it considered necessary to defend itself.

What to watch next is whether the diplomatic exchange produces acceptance of Tehran’s proposal and fulfilment of the conditions Ghalibaf described. Araghchi’s seven-day possibility remains tied to that process, not a confirmed reopening schedule.