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Iran has submitted a caller 14-point connection to the U.S. done Pakistan, aimed astatine ending the warfare amid a diplomatic impasse and fears of renewed hostilities, adjacent arsenic President Masoud Pezeshkian said the state “will not bow to immoderate power”.
On April 10, Iran had sent its effect to an American plan, which President Donald Trump dismissed arsenic “totally unacceptable”. According to Iranian officials, Tehran projected negotiations to absorption connected ending the war, portion deferring talks connected the atomic record to a aboriginal stage. The U.S. subsequently sent a ceremonial reply to Iran’s proposal, with Tehran’s latest 14-point program constituting its effect to the American text.
“In enactment with the caller signifier of exchanging messages, Iran has besides erstwhile again submitted its substance successful 14 points done the Pakistani mediator aft making amendments,” an Iranian authoritative said, according to the Tasnim quality agency.
Tasnim quoted different Iranian authoritative arsenic saying that the U.S. has agreed to waive sanctions connected Iran during the dialog period. Iran has insisted that removal of each sanctions connected the state should beryllium portion of a last agreement. “The United States has projected a waiver of OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions until a last knowing is reached,” the bureau reported.
The U.S., which on with Israel launched the warfare connected February 28, announced a ceasefire connected April 8, citing advancement successful negotiations. Iranian and American officials held 1 circular of nonstop talks successful Islamabad connected April 11 but failed to scope immoderate breakthrough. Immediately aft the talks failed, Mr. Trump announced a blockade of Iran’s ports. Iran, which took power of the Strait of Hormuz aft the warfare broke out, has demanded the U.S. extremity the blockade arsenic a assurance gathering measurement to instrumentality talks forward. Meanwhile, some sides person exchanged their proposals done Pakistan.
“We volition not bow. I volition ne'er bow earlier immoderate power. We volition not sacrifice the country’s dignity for the involvement of comfort-seeking and our ain worldly desires, but we indispensable negociate the state with prudence and wisdom,” Mr. Pezeshkian said connected Monday (May 18, 2026) astir the negotiations, according to Press TV.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters successful Tehran connected Monday (May 18, 2026) that the diplomatic process continues done Pakistan contempt the tensions. Tehran received “a acceptable of corrective points and considerations” from the U.S. “[O]ur points of presumption were presented to the American broadside successful return. Therefore, the process continues done Pakistan,” helium said.
One of the cardinal sticking points, too the atomic programme, is Iran’s power of the Strait of Hormuz done which astir one-fifth of the world’s lipid passed earlier the war. Since the war, Tehran has declared sovereignty implicit the strait and asked ships to coordinate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
On Sunday (May 17, 2026), Iran unveiled a caller body, the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PSGA), to power the Strait. According to the caller mechanism, each ships seeking to transit the Strait should get a confirmation message, astir “ruled and regulations” from the PGSA.
