Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addressed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the main bloc of Muslim-majority states, in Baghdad on 17 October. He said Iran will talk only with "credible guarantees" against new attacks1. He said Iran "does not accept coercion, threats and intimidation". He pointed back to the Hormuz plan Qatar carried for Tehran. Washington's written answer came back through Doha on 29 September. Tehran has answered it so far only with this new condition.
Araghchi said Iran could help broker dialogue on Yemen, and met the Turkish and Egyptian foreign ministers, Hakan Fidan and Badr Abdelatty, on the sidelines23. In the same week Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to the Supreme Leader, called the war with Yemen "nothing but fratricide", state-affiliated Mehr reported4. Tehran is offering itself as a Yemen broker while a Leader's adviser calls the war fratricide.
Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei denied on 4 October that Iran had offered International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections for sanctions relief5. "Iran has not put forward any issue in exchange for sanctions relief," he said. Inspectors have reached only certain operations at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant since the 2025 strikes. The Wall Street Journal, citing officials it does not name, reports that Iran is strengthening defences around sensitive sites, nuclear ones included6.
