The statements by top Iranian officials on Saturday contrasted with those of US President Donald Trump, who praised the state of talks between Washington and Tehran.
In a statement in Persian on Platform X, Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said that “Trump's policies are a mixture of delusion and contradictory rhetoric, and his tweets (his social media messages, no) are worthless.”
“Our response, however, is not in words, but in 'battlefield glory'; the breaking of the alleged maritime siege and a two- to three-fold increase in oil exports in this very period are signs of Iran's decisive victory,” Mohammad Reza Aref said.
“The authority of this nation will not be tainted by delusions,” he concluded, in the message delivered around the same time as Trump's press conference, according to CBS News.
New proposals from the US, says Iran
The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, issued an update on the status of the negotiations, saying Tehran had received new proposals from the United States through Pakistani intermediaries and was reviewing them.
He reiterated that Tehran should “maintain surveillance and control” over the Strait of Hormuz and collect from ships “the payment of relevant fees for services related to security, safety and environmental protection, along the routes designated by Iran.”
“Furthermore, as long as the enemy tries to disrupt maritime traffic and use measures such as a naval blockade, the Islamic Republic of Iran will consider this a violation of the ceasefire and prevent the conditional and limited opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” the secretary of Iran's main national security body also said.
What Donald Trump said
Also on Saturday, the US president said there were “very good conversations going on” between Washington and Tehran.
“They don't have a navy, they don't have an air force, they don't have leaders, they don't have anything,” Trump added in the press conference held in the Oval Office of the White House.
The US leader's remarks came as Iran announced on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is once again “under the strict control” of its armed forces and will remain so until the United States ends its blockade of Iranian ports.
President Trump had said that Iranian ports would be targeted by the US naval blockade until an agreement was reached to end the war.
