Claim and fact: Hormuz offer denied despite the Islamic Republic's ambassador's words

Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the IRGC, citing an "informed source", called reports of an Islamic Republic offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the US naval blockade "lies and fantasy". The denial was published even though Reza Amiri Moghadam, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, had confirmed this very offer in his own words at a seminar in Islamabad on Saturday, 24 October, a subject DIAR covered earlier in its report on the Islamic Republic's ambassador and the Strait of Hormuz.

The claim: no offer has been made

Tasnim's source said Tehran had made no new offer to the Pakistani mediators and that the Islamic Republic "fundamentally" does not accept an equation of the Strait of Hormuz for the blockade. According to this source, Tehran insists on the seven conditions it previously sent through the mediators, and insecurity will continue until all of the Islamic Republic's demands are met. The source also claimed the Islamic Republic will find a way around the blockade.

The fact: their own ambassador announced the offer

Amiri Moghadam said in Islamabad that during the visits of Asim Munir, Pakistan's army chief, to Tehran, Tehran told the Pakistani mediators that it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifted the blockade of Iran's ports. He accused Donald Trump of rejecting the offer by insisting on continuing the blockade and said the Islamic Republic remains committed to negotiating within the framework of the interim agreement reached in May–June with Pakistani and Qatari mediation.

Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, had also said earlier that the "seven-day" offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was still on the table. In other words, what Tasnim calls a "lie" is exactly what this same regime's ambassador and foreign minister have said. Tasnim's denial referred only to a report by Al Arabiya and said nothing about the ambassador's public remarks.

DIAR's verdict: misleading

The claim that "there is no offer" contradicts the recorded words of the Islamic Republic's own diplomats. The mixed messages from Tehran come as Donald Trump said on Saturday that he might strike "tomorrow" or reach a "big, beautiful deal", and, according to The Hill, US Central Command has prepared options for a new strike after the 3 November midterm elections.

The Islamic Republic's ambassador announced the Hormuz offer, and the IRGC's news agency called the same offer a lie.