Tehran rejects ceasefire proposal, wants permanent end to war: State media

Tehran: Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Tehran has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a permanent end to the war.

The report comes shortly before US President Donald Trump’s deadline for Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz or see its power plants and bridges attacked.

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The news agency said Iran had conveyed its response to the US through Pakistan.

“We won’t merely accept a ceasefire,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told The Associated Press Monday. “We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again.”

On the Strait of Hormuz, Ferdousi Pour said Iranian and Omani officials were working on a mechanism for administrating the shipping chokepoint.