Here is a post from Tansim, translated:
An informed source told Tasnim News Agency that Iran’s response to the 15-point proposal from the United States was formally delivered last night via intermediaries, and Iran is awaiting the other side’s reply.
According to this source, Iran stated in its response that acts of aggression and assassination by the enemy must end; objective conditions must be created to ensure the war will not be repeated; compensation and war reparations must be guaranteed and clearly defined; and the end of the war across all fronts—including all resistance groups involved in the conflict throughout the region—must be implemented.
The source added that Iran’s assertion of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is its natural and legal right and must be recognized, along with guarantees that the other side’s commitments will be implemented. These conditions are in addition to the demands Iran presented during the second round of negotiations in Geneva (a few days before the U.S. and Israeli attack in the month of Esfand).
The source also emphasized that, for Iran, it is clear that the U.S. claim of negotiations is merely a “third deception project,” and that the Americans are pursuing several goals under the cover of negotiations:
misleading the world by presenting a seemingly peace-seeking image,
keeping global oil prices low, and
buying time to prepare for a new aggressive action in southern Iran via a ground incursion.
The source noted that even before the “12-day war,” Iran had doubts about the outcome of negotiations and U.S. adherence to agreements, but since that war, it has complete doubt about the U.S.’s willingness to negotiate at any stage. According to the source, the Americans initiated conflict both during the “12-day war” and during the Ramadan war while negotiations were ongoing, and are now again using negotiations as a cover to prepare for new aggression.
It does sound like there is a bit of a basis to go forward here as it does cite the Geneva negotiations just before the war. However the control of Hormuz is a tough starting point and would be a humiliating outcome for the US.
It’s not clear whether Trump had received this when he wrote this morning:
The Iranian negotiators are very different and “strange.” They are
“begging” us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have
been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet
they publicly state that they are only “looking at our proposal.”
WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because
once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!
President DJT
This is going to be a very tense weekend and I struggle to see how US stocks could hold firm ahead of Friday’s close without some material good news.
This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.