The IRGC reveals Washington's 5 conditions in the negotiations

Iran's Fars News Agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), revealed details of what it said was the official US response to Iranian proposals in the ongoing negotiations between the two sides, noting that Washington has presented five basic conditions for agreeing to any potential agreement.

According to the agency, the U.S. conditions included refusing to pay any fines or compensation to Iran, handing over 400 kilograms of Iranian uranium to the United States, and maintaining only one nuclear facility inside Iran. The U.S. response also included not returning 25 percent of Iran's frozen assets, and linking a cessation of war on all fronts once negotiations began, without making any prior commitment to end military operations.

According to Fars, Washington informed the Iranian side that the threat of US and Israeli military aggression will remain even if Tehran accepts these conditions, which reflects, according to the agency, a US hardening approach to the nuclear file and related regional files.

Iranian conditions

On the other hand, the agency spoke of five corresponding Iranian conditions that Tehran considered necessary to build confidence before entering into any agreement. These conditions include a cessation of the war on all fronts, especially in Lebanon, a full lifting of US sanctions, the release of all frozen Iranian assets, compensation for losses resulting from the war, and Washington's recognition of Iran's full right to sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

These leaks come in light of the escalation of regional tension and the overlap of military, political and economic files, which makes the course of negotiations contingent, according to observers, on the ability of the two parties to overcome the wide gap between their mutual conditions.