Tehran will open a direct communication channel with Washington to report alleged breaches of the ceasefire memorandum of understanding, while insisting the Strait of Hormuz remains under Iranian control.
Iran said it will open a "communication channel" with Washington to report alleged violations of the ceasefire memorandum of understanding following talks in Qatar on Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said, following a visit to Qatar, that a direct communication channel would be established with the U.S. to report alleged breaches of the 60-day ceasefire memorandum of understanding signed on 17 July to end hostilities.
"It was decided that a direct communication channel for the monitoring group would be established on Thursday, and that shortcomings in the implementation of the MoU would be reported, discussed and decided upon in a formal and documented manner."
He made the statement after a one-day visit to Doha on Wednesday for talks with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding and the roadmap for implementing its provisions.
However, in a post on X, the senior diplomat denied there had been any mediated negotiations with U.S. officials while both Iranian and U.S. delegations were in Doha.
"The meetings of the Iranian delegation were held solely in trilateral formats with the Qatari and Pakistani delegations to follow up on the implementation of the provisions of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, particularly those concerning Lebanon, and the release of frozen assets," he wrote.
In Doha, Gharibabadi met Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and also held separate meetings with Qatari central bank officials to discuss the release of some of Iran's blocked funds, reportedly estimated at $3 billion out of a total of $12 billion.
In a separate development that underscored the challenges facing Tehran and Washington in securing a lasting peace agreement, the Iranian deputy foreign minister on Thursday strongly criticised a U.S. Central Command security meeting held in Manama.
Asserting that the Strait of Hormuz "is under Iran's authority, not CENTCOM's", he said the "military meeting in Bahrain cannot create legal order or security in the Persian Gulf".
"Regional security will be ensured by ending U.S. intervention and withdrawing from the region, respecting the sovereignty of countries, and accepting new geopolitical realities – not under the U.S. military umbrella," said Gharibabadi, who also leads the technical-level talks with Washington.
As Iran prepares for the week-long funeral of the former Supreme Leader, who was killed in the Israeli-U.S. attacks on 28 February, Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz, cast a shadow over Iran-U.S. de-escalation efforts.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Israel against threatening Iran's leadership or people, writing on X: "if US pets in Tel Aviv ignore their master, Iran will school them".
"The terms of the Islamabad MoU are crystal clear and public for all to use. POTUS has committed the US to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore their master, Iran will school them," he wrote.
"Any threat against our People and Leadership will receive Immediate Powerful Response," Iran's top diplomat added.
Asked about Iran's Supreme Leader, Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, Katz said he was "marked for death".
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, wrote to the Security Council warning that Israel's threat to target Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei was "neither isolated nor rhetorical".
According to the state IRNA news agency, he drew the Security Council's urgent attention to "the latest public threat issued by Israel Katz" against Iran's Supreme Leader.
"This threat is neither isolated nor rhetorical. It forms part of a deliberate and systematic policy of State-sponsored terrorism targeting senior Iranian State officials, pursued in the context of the Israeli regime's unlawful acts of aggression against Iran," the letter said.
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