Iran has rejected a US proposal that was due to form the basis for negotiations later this week aimed at ending the war, according to Iranian state news agency Press TV.
An unnamed senior security official told the outlet that the US proposal was both "excessive" in its demands and "deceptive", drawing parallels with two previous rounds of talks in which Israel and the US attacked Iran mid-negotiation.
In both cases, the US had "no genuine intention" of engaging in meaningful dialogue, the official said, referring to talks in June 2025 and February 2026.
The US proposal was delivered to Tehran by a friendly regional intermediary, Press TV said. This followed US president Donald Trump's claim on Monday that his administration had held positive conversations with unidentified Iranians.
A day later, Trump said those same Iranians had sent him a "significant prize" related to "oil and gas" and to flows through the strait of Hormuz.
Several Iranian officials have since denied that any negotiations have taken place with Washington since the war began on 28 February.
Iran's foreign ministry also denied that talks had occurred, but confirmed that Tehran had received messages "from some friendly countries regarding the US demand for negotiations to end the war".
The war will end "when Iran decides to do so, and when its own conditions are met", the Iranian security official told Press TV. Iran will continue to inflict "heavy blows" on its enemies until those demands are met, they said.
Press TV gave no detail on what the US "excessive" demands involved, but listed five Iranian conditions for ending the war. These include a "complete halt to aggression and assassinations by the enemy", the creation of "concrete mechanisms" to prevent conflict being reimposed on Iran, and a "guaranteed and clearly defined" structure for paying war damages and reparations.
Iran also called for the cessation of attacks on all "resistance groups" in the region — including Lebanon's Hezbollah, Gaza-based Hamas and Yemen's Houthi movement — and for acceptance of Iran's continued sovereignty over the strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire is contingent on Washington accepting all of Iran's conditions, the official said. "No negotiations will be held prior to that. The end of the war will occur when Iran decides it should end, not when Trump envisions its conclusion."
