The US attacked Iran again. At night, American forces attacked the island of Kish in the Strait of Hormuz.
In response, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araji, recalled the defeat of the Republicans in the mid-term elections in the United States and said that now the decision should be made by the White House. "American voters have made their choice. Now it's time for the White House to do their part," he wrote in X.
Argachi said Tehran's offer to end the war remains valid. The US must meet Iranian demands, including the cessation of hostilities on all fronts. Otherwise, he threatened to continue the military conflict.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that negotiations with Tehran have made little progress. He called the Iranian demands "unacceptable" and some of them. "scandalous" and "absurd".
The former foreign minister, Antony Blinken, believes that it will not be possible to reach an agreement with Iran without concessions. He pointed out that Tehran is able to maintain a threat to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz as long as it wants: all it takes is to damage one ship for insurance rates on shipping to rise sharply again.
According to Blinken, the agreement may oblige the United States to ease sanctions or compromise the regime in order to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.