Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament, said on Sunday, 20 September 2026, that the Strait of Hormuz would not be reopened until Iran's seven conditions were met. The same Sunday line added that Tehran must pursue both military action and negotiations. [E1]
A Tehran-dated dispatch on Monday, 21 September, attributed a different formulation to Iran's top negotiator, unnamed in that copy: Tehran had conveyed to Washington through mediators its conditions for ending its blockade of the strait. [E2]
The Sunday speaker statement names Ghalibaf and a seven-condition threshold for reopening. The Monday mediator line names no person and frames the issue as ending a blockade rather than listing the seven terms. The two fragments do not identify the Monday negotiator as the Sunday speaker.
What stands in order is a public conditions-first speech on Sunday and, the next day, an unnamed negotiator's claim that conditions for ending the blockade had already been passed to Washington through mediators. [E1] [E2]