Iran calls US reply "insufficient" – threatens data centres in the region
Tehran says Washington accepted some of its seven conditions for ending the war but calls the response insufficient. In Hormuz, the Revolutionary Guards report more mine strikes.
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Iran has described the latest US response to its proposals for ending the war as "insufficient". Mohsen Rezaei, head of the Supreme National Security Council, said according to the state news agency IRNA that Washington had accepted some of Tehran's seven conditions while others remained unclear. Iran would not respond for now, he said, and the US must first clarify certain issues. According to Iran International, Rezaei also said Iranian diplomacy had changed and there would be "no return to the status quo ante".
Rezaei threatened attacks on "cables, data centers, AI facilities and other sites in the region" if intense fighting resumes. The Revolutionary Guards' navy warned that any ship switching off its navigation and identification systems would be "identified as hostile". According to the Guards, a tanker carrying 750,000 barrels of crude hit a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and caught fire – the third such incident that day. This has not been independently confirmed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened security officials on Sunday evening amid concerns about an escalation with Iran, the Times of Israel reported. The two sides remain in contact through mediators; a memorandum signed in June collapsed days later. An Iranian proposal for a fast-tracked agreement made last month was rejected.