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🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s State TV confirms Iran’s FM Araghchi held a meeting with Witkoff on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York.
Their meeting was focused on communication of Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormoz.
Iran conveyed its positions during the meeting.
Iran’s conditions, according to IRIB:
• Immediate lifting of the maritime blockade
• Immediate payment of all frozen Iranian assets
• An end to the war on all fronts of the resistance (including Gaza and Lebanon)
These are among Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormoz.
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This is worthless and imo another egregious example of the reformists trying to subvert the policy of the Islamic Republic. Its genuinely a near treasonous action.
Seems like Araghchi is sticking to the script. I dunno what you are so upset about.
At this point, Iranian leadership should no longer be meeting with US officials to “negotiate”. They have the MoU. If the US wants the strait to be opened, they simply need to implement the MoU. This should be emphasized each and every time the US asks to have or talks about having “negotiations”. Actively continuing to negotiate at this time only serves to delegitimize the MoU. This is just my perspective. I’m certainly no expert lol
My issue is that by signaling openness to negotiate only serves to aid the US in their circus show of tryng to control oil prices. Especially when Iranian officials travel to the US, it allows the US to pretend as if they have some kind of leverage when they don’t. The fuel shortage is a material constraint on the imperial core and sooner or later, regardless of the market manipulation, the US will have to confront that reality. Not to mention that within Iran itself, their popular will opposed to negotiating unless Iran has removed the imperialists from the region.
Why help Trump’s attempt to manipulate the oil market, when Iran has a better position for negotiating when the oil market isn’t able to cope with Trump’s circus? The other issue for ms is that Araghchi’s actions appear similiar to when the MOU was pushed forward without explicit comment from Mojtaba Khamenei.
Araghchi and Pezeshkian represent the west-obsesses section of the Iranian bourgeoisie. It’s why they put sanctions relief and unfreezing of assets over things like a US exit from west Asia.
And as another comrade said, why bring this up as a new thing when previously Iran has pointed to the MOU for the US to follow through on.
This talk of negotiations doesn’t help Iran’s position, and in fact, strengthens the US’ position. It appears as if things like the new wave of sanctions are actually having a crippling effect. Whereas, Iran could right now make changes that help alleviate a lot of the economic stress on its citizens if it properly targeted the oligarchs these reformists represent.
I see this as less that Araghchi is trying to advance upon the gains Iran has made through its victory, and more like he’s following edicts from Iranian oligarchs, who fear that the people will force them to stop being such parasites.
This isn’t “negotiations.” They had a meeting and Araghchi reiterated the demands they have been saying since the MoU. Araghchi is the Foreign minister its literally his job to go tell people what Iran’s official position is.
Don’t get me wrong the reformers are bougie pricks that should face the wall but even they have figured out that usa is not agreement capable and there is no enrichment to come from betraying their country.
That’s reasonable though. As materialists we should know that no matter what they try to do to keep the fuel prices low, when the reserves finally run out there will be nothing that the empire can do to keep the veneer of normalcy we still have. At that point higher prices might be the least of their concerns.