Autos drive beneath billboards displaying portraits of the late Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, foreground, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to him, alongside a freeway in Tehran, Iran, on March 24, 2026.
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Iran on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) dismissed a U.S. proposal to finish the conflict and set out its personal phrases for peace, even because it continued buying and selling fireplace with Israel.
The U.S. proposal supplied a ceasefire and sanctions reduction in return for Tehran abandoning its nuclear programme and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. In accordance with state-run Press TV, Iran has laid down 5 circumstances to finish the conflict, which the U.S. and Israel launched on February 28 with the assassination of Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other different leaders. Tehran is looking for: “an entire halt to aggression and assassinations; “concrete mechanisms” to forestall future assaults; fee of conflict damages and reparations; an finish to combating on “all fronts”; and recognition of its “train of sovereignty” over the Strait of Hormuz, which it calls its “pure and authorized proper”.
Iran-Israel conflict updates on March 25, 2026
“Iran will finish the conflict when it decides to take action and when its personal circumstances are met,” a senior safety official mentioned, in line with Press TV. The official, who will not be named within the report, mentioned Washington has put ahead proposals by means of varied diplomatic channels which might be “extreme” and “disconnected from actuality” on the battlefield.
The Related Press earlier cited two Pakistani officers as saying that Islamabad had delivered the U.S. plan to Tehran. The proposal addresses sanctions reduction, a rollback of Iran’s nuclear programme, limits on its missile programme, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restrictions on Iran’s assist for non-state militias in West Asia comparable to Hezbollah and Hamas, mentioned the officers.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Monday (March 23, 2026) backed off from an earlier menace to assault Iran’s energy infrastructure claiming that Washington and Tehran have been in talks, mentioned on Tuesday (March 24, 20260 on the Oval Workplace that Iran had given him “a really huge current value an incredible sum of money”, including that “we’re coping with the correct folks”. With out elaborating on the “current”, Mr. Trump, who had earlier claimed the U.S. had “productive talks” with Iran, mentioned: I feel we’re going to finish [the war].”
The feedback from Mr. Trump, who has postpone his threatened strikes till Friday, got here amid studies that the Pentagon was planning to deploy 1000’s of troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to West Asia.
“We’re intently monitoring all U.S. actions within the area, particularly troop deployments,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf mentioned on Wednesday in a social media publish. “What the generals have broke[n], the troopers can’t repair; as an alternative, they are going to fall sufferer to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s delusions. Don’t take a look at our resolve to defend our land,” he added.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Wednesday dismissed studies about talks between Washington and Tehran, including that the U.S. is looking its “defeat” an settlement. “If the self-proclaimed superpower of the world may have escaped this predicament, it will have executed so by now. Don’t name your defeat an settlement,” Central Headquarters spokesperson Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari mentioned in a video assertion. “Has the extent of your infighting reached the purpose of negotiating with yourselves?” he requested, sarcastically.
Whereas the U.S. and Iran issued contradicting claims about talks, Tehran and Tel Aviv continued to assault one another on Wednesday. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) mentioned that it focused Iran’s “sole facility” for the event of submarines, and different weapons manufacturing websites in Isfahan. The IDF additionally hit Iranian air defence methods, the navy added. For the reason that starting of the conflict, Israel has dropped greater than 15,000 bombs throughout Iran, in line with Defence Minister Israel Katz. Iran fired a minimum of 13 salvos of missiles at Israel on Tuesday (March 24, 2026), by which 9 folks have been wounded.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) that it launched missiles at central and northern Israel in addition to U.S. bases within the Persian Gulf area. “Strategic factors and navy facilities positioned within the northern occupied territories have been smashed beneath the heavy and sustained missile assaults of the IRGC’s Aerospace Pressure,” the Guards mentioned.
U.S. navy bases of Ali al-Salem and Arifjan in Kuwait, al-Azraq in Jordan, and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain, have been additionally struck with “liquid- and solid-fuel precision missiles and assault drones”, the IRGC claimed.
Printed – March 25, 2026 09:59 pm IST