Rezaei: Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until our seven conditions are met

• Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei says Tehran will not return to negotiations or reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its seven conditions are met.
• Rezaei says the strait is part of the guarantees needed to enforce any agreement, while Iran is discussing a regional security framework with Gulf countries.

Iran will not return to negotiations or reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its seven conditions are met, Mohsen Rezaei, a member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council and former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has said.

Rezaei said the previous memorandum of understanding failed because the obligations were scheduled for implementation in the wrong order, arguing that Iran’s conditions must be fulfilled first in any future agreement.

“This time, the order of things is clear, and our conditions must be implemented first,” he said.

Rezaei stressed that the Strait of Hormuz is not merely an issue to be addressed in negotiations but also a mechanism for ensuring that any agreement is implemented.

He said Tehran was no longer interested in agreements whose only guarantee was political goodwill, adding that a path toward reopening the strait would be possible if Washington honored its commitments.

“If Washington adheres to its commitments, there will be a path toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz,” Rezaei said.

Rezaei also said Iran was holding discussions with Gulf countries about establishing a regional security framework aimed at preventing the region from becoming an arena for confrontation.

He distinguished between Iran’s decisions concerning the Strait of Hormuz and those of Yemen’s Houthi movement concerning the Bab al-Mandab Strait, saying each was responsible for its own decisions.

The remarks underscore Tehran’s position that control over strategic waterways is central to negotiations and any future security arrangement. Rezaei did not specify the seven conditions in the statements provided.