Major combat operations have been paused for weeks but there has been little progress toward a wider peace agreement or reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route. Six months after U.S. and Israeli forces attacked Iran, killing its supreme leader and maiming his son and successor, the Iranian government is under economic siege, but it still holds power and has shown little urgency to negotiate.
Trump, facing political pressure at home over higher energy prices ahead of November congressional elections, has opted to focus on economic sanctions, but aggressively enforcing them would require taking measures against Iranian trade partners such as China and India.
Rezaei said the United States must take steps to meet Iran's conditions before Tehran moved to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Those conditions include an end to the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, compensation and removal of sanctions.
"We do not trust the United States; it has repeatedly betrayed diplomacy and negotiations," Rezaei said.
A June memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran collapsed in part over the future of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which about a fifth of global energy supplies passed before the war.
Iran has sought to exert control over the strait and charge fees to ships it authorizes, while Washington insists it should remain an open international waterway.
Al Thani said on X that he stressed the importance of freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. He and the Iranian foreign minister also discussed a proposal to establish a temporary joint Iranian-Omani shipping corridor through the strait and a joint project to clear mines, Qatar's foreign ministry said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that Iran and Oman had agreed in principle on administering traffic in the strait and sharing revenues, but a senior Iranian source later said the two countries were still working on the details of an agreement.
Iran is preparing a list of conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz after mediators asked Tehran to set them out, Rezaei said. Ships would use a designated central channel if the U.S. met Iran's conditions, he said through an interpreter in an Al Manar TV interview.
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