{"id":33612,"date":"2026-08-09T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33612"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:21:53","slug":"iran-demands-u-s-correct-its-behavior-and-issues-sweeping-demands-in-exchange-for-opening-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33612","title":{"rendered":"Iran Demands U.S. \u2018Correct its Behavior\u2019 and Issues Sweeping Demands in Exchange for Opening Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5749489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5749489\" class=\"wp-image-5749489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/17.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump, Iranian official Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr Alex Brandon\/Vahid Salem\/AP Photos\" width=\"1250\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5749489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump, Iranian official Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr Alex Brandon\/Vahid Salem\/AP Photos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There won&#8217;t be a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz unless the United States &#8220;corrects its behavior,&#8221; Tehran declared in a statement Saturday while issuing half a dozen new demands &#8212; including that the U.S. must &#8220;never&#8221; threaten Iran again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/irans-supreme-national-security-council-issues-drastic-new-demands-of-the-us-as-conditions-for-reopening-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Times of Israel. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bold statement from <strong>Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr<\/strong>, the secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, came just hours after Vice President <strong>JD Vance<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/vance-tells-fox-news-u-s-is-in-the-middle-of-the-game-with-iran-day-after-report-claims-top-general-is-looking-for-an-off-ramp\/\">assured Fox News&#8217; <strong>Kayleigh McEnany <\/strong><\/a>that talks with Iran had been moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think that we\u2019ve made some progress over the last few days,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>IRGC Spokesman <strong>Hossein Mohebbi<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/ship-struck-in-strait-of-hormuz-as-tehran-says-u-s-must-accept-irans-conditions-to-reopen-key-waterway\/\">said earlier Saturday<\/a> Iran the Strait of Hormuz would reopen &#8220;whenever the United States accepts Iran\u2019s conditions,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-says-deal-strait-hormuz-is-close-will-not-open-waterway-by-itself-2026-08-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters reported, citing Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But hours later, any potential deal appeared to be on the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, issued via the state broadcaster, included a series of demands including a permanent end to the war with Iran and its proxies &#8212; including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, the Times of Israel reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran is also demanding an end to the United States&#8217; naval blockade of its ports and the withdrawal of the American military from the region &#8212; along with full compensation for damage from the war, which began Feb. 28 with joint airstrikes by Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is also demanding that all sanctions against it be lifted and want all of its frozen financial assets released.<\/p>\n<p>The war appeared to be over in June when both sides reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/read-updated-full-text-of-trumps-14-point-mou-with-iran\/\">a memorandum of understanding<\/a> which would have given 60 days to reach a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>Instead,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-tears-up-iran-ceasefire-trashes-scum-regime-leaders\/\"> hostilities quickly raged again<\/a> and the U.S. commenced nearly two straight weeks of airstrikes on Iran that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/breaking-two-u-s-troops-killed-and-one-missing-after-iran-strikes-base-in-jordan\/\">saw the deaths of several American soldiers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted a deal was &#8220;imminent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/iran-demands-u-s-correct-its-behavior-and-issues-sweeping-demands-in-exchange-for-opening-strait-of-hormuz\/\">Iran Demands U.S. \u2018Correct its Behavior\u2019 and Issues Sweeping Demands in Exchange for Opening Strait of Hormuz<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump, Iranian official Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr Alex Brandon\/Vahid Salem\/AP Photos There won&#8217;t be a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz unless the United States &#8220;corrects its behavior,&#8221; Tehran declared in a statement Saturday while issuing half a dozen new demands &#8212; including that the U.S. must &#8220;never&#8221; threaten Iran again, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/17.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}