Iran rejects US proposal, lays out five conditions for ending war

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/25/765835/iran-rejects-us-proposal-lays-out-five-conditions-ending-imposed-war-source

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BenderMar 26, 2026, 1:33 PM
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- A complete halt to "aggression and assassinations" by the enemy.

- The establishment of concrete mechanisms to ensure that the war is not reimposed on the Islamic Republic.

- Guaranteed and clearly defined payment of war damages and reparations.

- The end of the war across all fronts and for all resistance groups involved throughout the region

- Iran's exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is and will remain Iran's natural and legal right, and it constitutes a guarantee for the implementation of the other party's commitments, and must be recognized.

[1] - https://archive.is/v7F7d

jfengelMar 26, 2026, 3:51 PM
I cannot imagine what kind of concrete mechanisms will ensure this doesn't happen again. Perhaps guarantees by the rest of NATO to attack the US or Israel if they do?
ajewhereMar 27, 2026, 4:05 PM
For start, an immediate stop to anti Iran propaganda, and publicly recognising the right of 90 million people to govern themselves as they see fit.

It would also help to make it illegal to use "human rights violations" as a pretext for neocolonial wars. You are at bad faith here (to put it very mildly) at least since the civil war in Yugoslavia, organised by US and some other western states.

jfengelMar 27, 2026, 4:28 PM
Would Iran be willing to stop anti-US and anti-Israel propaganda?

Iran would surely point out that Israel isn't allowing Palestinians to govern themselves, and the US would point to the violent suppression of Iranian protests. (And then whatever the hell is going on in the US.) So it's not really clear if anybody is really being allowed to govern themselves.

I don't mean to both-sides this war; Israel and the US are clearly the aggressors and clearly in the wrong. But this is a very longstanding conflict and I don't think a one-sided promise to give up propaganda is going to help.

dyauspitrMar 26, 2026, 6:22 AM
I got to say, whatever my opinion of Iran, they’re really leveraging the few advantages they have very well. Between the Shahed drones, the threat to the desalination plants and essentially the complete shut off of oil and natural gas, there is nothing anyone can really do. You can’t defang Iran because those Shaheds are tiny and can be stored and launched from anywhere. You can’t send in an invasive ground force because that will result in tens of thousands of coalition deaths. You can’t bomb their cities because they don’t care about civilian deaths. This might end up actually solidifying the Islamic Republic then if you had just let events run their course.
jfengelMar 26, 2026, 3:53 PM
We appear to be planning to send a ground force. I suspect that the US has overwhelming force, as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it would also be a bloodbath; Iran is better prepared than either of the two previous opponents are.
3eb7988a1663Mar 26, 2026, 7:30 AM
"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." -Paul Atreides
beardywMar 26, 2026, 9:18 AM
A quote from fiction which should continue " ... at the point of destruction, after which there is nothing to control."
anovikovMar 26, 2026, 7:36 AM
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ZeroGravitasMar 26, 2026, 7:57 AM
Some thankless government employee is trying to talk Trump out of commiting this series of war crimes right as we speak.

I wonder if Iran forsaw that. They've been doing the tit-for-tat thing pretty well so far. What kind of mass scale civilian casualty war crimes could they retaliate with?

anovikovMar 26, 2026, 7:58 AM
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locallostMar 26, 2026, 8:18 AM
What was said was, you are advocating war crimes. There is a reason why even when these are committed, they are not communicated in this way, and there's a pretense of noble action. You don't want to live in a world where destruction of power plants, reducing societies to loosely connected tribes etc. is casually talked about. You are not that safe.
anovikovMar 26, 2026, 8:46 AM
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