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Iran says it is drawing up a list of conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and ending the wars across the Middle East is on it.

Getting into it: Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said mediators had pushed Tehran to lay out exactly what it wants. He told Al Manar TV that nothing gets signed with the US unless the fighting stops in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria, which means Israel pulling out of Lebanon and calling off its strikes on Syria. The strait, he said, cannot be separated from everything else happening in the region, and Washington has to prove it is serious before there is any trust to build on.

His comments came the same day Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met senior Iranian officials in Tehran, making Qatar the third country to send mediators in as many weeks, after Pakistan and Oman. Al Thani said on X that he stressed the importance of respecting freedom of navigation under international law. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said the meeting covered a short-term shipping corridor and a joint effort to pull the mines out of the water.

The IRGC, meanwhile, has stayed consistent on its demands for reopening the strait. They want the US to pay for war damages, drop every sanction, and lift the blockade on Iranian ports. On top of that, Iran has floated a ban on foreign military vessels using the corridor it is working out with Oman, with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi saying military ships would be shut out once the arrangement is finalized.

Fox News Digital asked the White House whether Trump would accept limits on US military vessels and got nothing back. CENTCOM was more blunt, saying, “Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. The strait is an international waterway that commercial vessels continue to transit with US military assistance.”