TehranIran’s leader, unseen since March, backed Tehran’s war conditions.
Iran demands an end to the US blockade first, while Washington demands it drop nuclear ambitions.
State media said Mojtaba Khamenei and security council secretary Mohsen Rezaei also discussed keeping control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Qatar’s foreign ministry media director Ibrahim al-Hashmi called the region’s “no war and no peace” state “unacceptable.”
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 2 November a 6% chance, down 8 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- Mehr News Agency leans favorable
- relays the Supreme Leader's conditions for ending the war as state-media framing, stressing 'neither peace nor war' and Iran's rights
- Investing.com
- notes Khamenei's first public appearance since his father's killing in March and ties the talks to Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani visits
- TRT World
- places the Qatar–Iran meeting in Moscow on the GECF sidelines, linking Doha's mediation to energy supply talks
Sources: Mehr News Agency, Investing.com, TRT World