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Iran would not give in to force or threats during talks with the United States, the spokesman for parliament’s national security committee said on Monday.

Ebrahim Rezaei said US threats should not be taken seriously and that time was no longer working in Washington’s favor.

“Do not believe the bluff of the defeated president. Time is working against the Americans,” he wrote in a post on X.

Tehran’s prosecutor said on Monday that more than €5 billion in foreign currency had been recovered from exporters who failed to meet their currency repatriation obligations on time.

Ali Salehi said more than €20 billion in export currency obligations had also been reviewed and settled through judicial follow-up, citing reports from Central Bank officials.

He did not name the exporters or specify where the funds had been held.

Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper, said on Monday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz would remove one of the main obstacles to renewed attacks on the country.

Shariatmadari said Iran’s closure of the strait and what he called Tehran’s legal sovereignty over the strategic waterway had been among the main tools that forced Iran’s adversaries to back down in the recent war.

“One of the main and most effective levers that brought the enemies of Islamic Iran to their knees in the recent war was closing the Strait of Hormuz and exercising the Islamic Republic’s legal sovereignty over this strategic waterway,” he wrote.

He also argued that control over the strait could bring Iran billions of dollars a year in transit fees from oil tankers and commercial vessels, while higher oil prices would increase Iran’s foreign currency income.

Iran executed a protester who took part in a nationwide uprising in January, over accusations of armed action in the central province of Isfahan, the judiciary’s Mizan News reported on Monday.

Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi had been convicted on charges including “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and collusion to commit crimes against internal security, according to the report.

The report accused him of being an armed leader during protests on January 8 and 9 and added that his sentence had been upheld by the Supreme Court before being carried out.

The report alleged that he took part in an attack on the governor’s office in the city of Naein and fired a handgun toward security forces.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington has presented what he called a “pretty solid” proposal to Iran involving the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Speaking to reporters during a visit to India, Rubio said the proposed framework would allow Iran to reopen the strategic waterway and enter “a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matters.”

Rubio said the proposal had strong backing from Persian Gulf states and broad international support.

“Every country that we’ve walked through it, understands it’s not just very reasonable but it’s the right thing for the world to get done,” he said.

At the same time, Rubio emphasized that President Donald Trump was not rushing toward an agreement and insisted Washington would reject any arrangement it viewed as weak.

“The president is not going to make a bad deal,” Rubio said.

Asked what was delaying a breakthrough, Rubio said the holdup was Iran’s response and suggested Tehran’s internal decision-making process was slowing communications.

“You’ve got to hear back, and it takes the Iranian system a little while longer to get back,” he said.

Rubio added that the administration would continue pursuing diplomacy before considering alternative options.

He also said that Washington would either reach a good agreement with Iran or deal with the country “another way,” adding that the United States would give diplomacy every chance before considering “alternatives.”