TEHRAN — Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz or enter negotiations with the United States until Washington implements Tehran’s conditions, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said, laying out a new diplomatic approach built around guarantees, distrust of Washington and Iran’s leverage over the strategic waterway.

“If the Americans do not first implement our conditions, neither will the Strait of Hormuz open nor will we negotiate,” Rezaei said in an interview with Iranian national television, stressing that Iran’s position has not weakened and that its conditions are now fundamentally different from those previously discussed.

“Our conditions are completely different from the past,” Rezaei said, adding that Iran has seven conditions and that Pakistan, Qatar and Iraq are aware of them after asking Tehran to set out its requirements in writing following requests from the Americans.

He said Iran had agreed in a meeting with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to communicate its conditions to the United States, emphasizing that there is no new or additional condition being introduced but rather that Tehran is formally conveying the requirements it has already established.

“Until our conditions are fulfilled, the Strait of Hormuz will not open and we will not negotiate,” Rezaei said, explaining that the reason for the new phase is straightforward because “the Americans are not trustworthy,” while insisting that Iran is pursuing a new form of diplomacy rather than abandoning diplomacy altogether.

“The conditions of Iran must be implemented, and if they are not implemented, the Strait of Hormuz will not open,” he said, adding that Iran had previously made clear that actions by the United States were contributing to circumstances in which the strategic waterways became closed.

Rezaei said Iran does not seek war and rejected the suggestion that Tehran is directing Yemen’s actions, describing the Yemeni side as independent while stressing that Iran does not want a war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

“We are not warmongers,” he said, while maintaining that Iran’s demand for its conditions to be implemented before the reopening of the Strait remains unchanged and that the United States will first have to establish trust.

Rezaei identified guarantees as a second central element of what he called Iran’s new diplomacy, while describing control over the Strait of Hormuz as an instrument of national power through which Iran could pursue what he called the rights of its people.

“We have the Strait of Hormuz, and we have that power and instrument for achieving Iran’s rights for its people,” he said.

The remarks came alongside a broader attack on U.S. President Donald Trump’s conduct and his speech at the United Nations, with Rezaei saying Iran as has emerged stronger from the war and stating that Trump’s focus on Iran demonstrates the importance Washington attaches to Tehran.

“This is the first American president whose entire speech revolves around Iran, and this shows that Iran has become Trump’s biggest problem and Iran has become the biggest problem of American policy,” Rezaei said, adding that Iran’s strength is the reason for that focus.

Rezaei also rejected Trump’s characterization of Iran and defended Tehran’s military response, saying Iran has not attacked another country since the Islamic Revolution and has acted in self-defense.

“Trump and Netanyahu have created the most severe terrorism in the world,” he said, referring to the deaths of children and contrasting those deaths with Iranian children killed at school, while insisting that Iran’s own military posture is defensive.

Rezaei said Iran has emerged from the war in a stronger position and stressed that the country has not been pushed back to what Trump had threatened would be the Stone Age.

“Today the Islamic Republic exists powerfully, and Iran is standing powerfully,” he said, adding that Iran has reached a high point and that “today’s Iran is not the Iran before the war.”

He also said Iran has achieved significant military successes during the war, including striking advanced U.S. aircraft, damaging American military infrastructure, detonating a missile above the USS George Washington and capturing a valuable American submarine for subsequent reverse engineering.

Rezaei further warned regional states against becoming involved in an American adventure, saying that Iran expects neighboring countries to help prevent the war from expanding rather than aligning themselves with Washington.

“We tell all the countries of the region and ask them not to enter America’s adventure,” he said, warning that restrictions on Iranian aircraft could have consequences for regional aviation and urging neighboring states not to join what he characterized as an American campaign.

“You are our friends, but you should not join America’s side,” Rezaei said, calling on regional countries instead to help prevent the expansion of the war.

His central message remained that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz constitutes a major source of leverage in its dealings with Washington, and that Tehran will retain that leverage until its conditions are implemented and the guarantees it seeks are provided.

“Before the Strait of Hormuz opens, Iran’s conditions must be implemented,” Rezaei said, reiterating that the waterway will remain closed and negotiations will not proceed until Tehran’s requirements have been met.