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Iran connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) dismissed a U.S. connection to extremity the warfare and acceptable retired its ain presumption for peace, adjacent arsenic it continued trading occurrence with Israel.
The U.S. connection offered a ceasefire and sanctions alleviation successful instrumentality for Tehran abandoning its atomic programme and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to state-run Press TV, Iran has laid down 5 conditions to extremity the war, which the U.S. and Israel launched connected February 28 with the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and respective different leaders. Tehran is seeking: “a implicit halt to aggression and assassinations; “concrete mechanisms” to forestall aboriginal attacks; outgo of warfare damages and reparations; an extremity to warring connected “all fronts”; and designation of its “exercise of sovereignty” implicit the Strait of Hormuz, which it calls its “natural and ineligible right”.
Iran-Israel war updates connected March 25, 2026
“Iran volition extremity the warfare erstwhile it decides to bash truthful and erstwhile its ain conditions are met,” a elder information authoritative said, according to Press TV. The official, who is not named successful the report, said Washington has enactment guardant proposals done assorted diplomatic channels that are “excessive” and “disconnected from reality” connected the battlefield.
The Associated Press earlier cited 2 Pakistani officials arsenic saying that Islamabad had delivered the U.S. program to Tehran. The connection addresses sanctions relief, a rollback of Iran’s atomic programme, limits connected its rocket programme, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restrictions connected Iran’s enactment for non-state militias successful West Asia specified arsenic Hezbollah and Hamas, said the officials.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who connected Monday (March 23, 2026) backed disconnected from an earlier menace to onslaught Iran’s powerfulness infrastructure claiming that Washington and Tehran were successful talks, said connected Tuesday (March 24, 20260 astatine the Oval Office that Iran had fixed him “a precise large contiguous worthy a tremendous magnitude of money”, adding that “we are dealing with the close people”. Without elaborating connected the “present”, Mr. Trump, who had earlier claimed the U.S. had “productive talks” with Iran, said: I deliberation we’re going to extremity [the war].”
The comments from Mr. Trump, who has enactment disconnected his threatened strikes until Friday, came amid reports that the Pentagon was readying to deploy thousands of troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to West Asia.
“We are intimately monitoring each U.S. movements successful the region, particularly unit deployments,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said connected Wednesday successful a societal media post. “What the generals person broke[n], the soldiers can’t fix; instead, they volition autumn unfortunate to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s delusions. Do not trial our resoluteness to support our land,” helium added.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters connected Wednesday dismissed reports astir talks betwixt Washington and Tehran, adding that the U.S. is calling its “defeat” an agreement. “If the self-proclaimed superpower of the satellite could person escaped this predicament, it would person done truthful by now. Do not telephone your decision an agreement,” Central Headquarters spokesperson Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari said successful a video statement. “Has the level of your infighting reached the constituent of negotiating with yourselves?” helium asked, sarcastically.
While the U.S. and Iran issued contradicting claims astir talks, Tehran and Tel Aviv continued to onslaught each different connected Wednesday. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it targeted Iran’s “sole facility” for the improvement of submarines, and different weapons manufacturing sites successful Isfahan. The IDF besides deed Iranian aerial defence systems, the subject added. Since the opening of the war, Israel has dropped much than 15,000 bombs crossed Iran, according to Defence Minister Israel Katz. Iran fired astatine slightest 13 salvos of missiles astatine Israel connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026), successful which 9 radical were wounded.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said successful a connection connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) that it launched missiles astatine cardinal and bluish Israel arsenic good arsenic U.S. bases successful the Persian Gulf region. “Strategic points and subject centers located successful the bluish occupied territories were smashed nether the dense and sustained rocket attacks of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force,” the Guards said.
U.S. subject bases of Ali al-Salem and Arifjan successful Kuwait, al-Azraq successful Jordan, and Sheikh Isa successful Bahrain, were besides struck with “liquid- and solid-fuel precision missiles and onslaught drones”, the IRGC claimed.
