Iran says its offer to restart ceasefire talks within two days is 'the most logical'

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had issued an order to “end the state of no war, no peace.”

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a statement commenting on recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding American public opinion toward Israel, said that the peoples of the region are as weary of Israeli deception as American citizens are, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA.

The Iranian foreign minister wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday morning: “The U.S. president has clearly recognized that the overwhelming majority of the American people deeply hate Israel.”

Araghchi added, “The noteworthy point is that the latter apparently has not yet grasped the reason for this issue, noting that it is clear Americans have grown tired of Israel’s deception of U.S. governments and its pushing them into endless wars, and they can no longer tolerate it. The same applies to our region.”

It is worth noting that U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview with CBS on Friday that voter discontent over the war with Iran, rising gasoline prices, and widespread opposition to Israel were factors in the Republicans’ defeat in the midterm elections.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei, during a weekly press conference in response to Rubio’s comments, asked: “Is it unreasonable for Iran to demand the lifting of illegal U.S. sanctions and the naval blockade imposed on it before negotiations begin, and for the war to end on all fronts?”

Iran has offered to shorten the time required to resume talks from a previous proposal that called for them to begin within seven days, and it includes a demand that Washington first fulfill conditions including halting hostilities, lifting the blockade, and canceling sanctions.