Vehicles drive under billboards showing portraits of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, foreground, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to him, along a highway in Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2026.
| Photo Credit: AP Iran on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) dismissed a U.S. proposal to end the war and set out its own terms for peace, even as it continued trading fire with Israel. The U.S. proposal offered a ceasefire and sanctions relief in return for Tehran abandoning its nuclear programme and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to state-run Press TV, Iran has laid down five conditions to end the war, which the U.S. and Israel launched on February 28 with the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other leaders. Tehran is seeking: “a complete halt to aggression and assassinations; “concrete mechanisms” to prevent future attacks; payment of war damages and reparations; an end to fighting on “all fronts”; and recognition of its “exercise of sovereignty” over the Strait of Hormuz, which it calls its “natural and legal right”.
Published: March 25, 2026 4:29 pm
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