Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pledged during a cabinet meeting Oct. 28 that his administration will use all its capacities to implement Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s directives aimed at fulfilling Iran’s conditions for ending the current state of “neither war nor peace,” reported Tasnim. Pezeshkian referred to the Leader’s recent directive to Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei to pursue the fulfillment of conditions set by Iranian officials to move beyond the “no war, no peace” situation. Describing the directive as conveying “a great and important message” and outlining the country’s future prospects, the president stressed that the entire government would work with full capacity to realize the specified objectives and measures.

Meanwhile, Qatari mediators have presented Iran with a new draft deal to end the war with the US and Israel, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. The proposal presented by Qatar reportedly sets a seven-day timeline addressing both Tehran’s and Washington’s concerns, laying out daily confidence-building steps that each side must take, the official briefed on the negotiations said.

Shortly afterwards, a senior Iranian official involved in the talks said Qatar had presented only “unacceptable ideas and not an offer,” and that Tehran’s policy on showing no flexibility over the nuclear issue remained unchanged.