Mohsen Rezaei, top adviser to Iran's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN that U.S.-Iran peace talks
are deadlocked until Trump releases $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets and
ends the naval blockade on Iranian ports.
The warning came during a fragile ceasefire in
the 2026 war, sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in
late February, followed by Iranian missile attacks and the U.S. blockade from
April 13.
Rezaei threatened to expand fighting to the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean, plus more U.S. bases, while ruling out a Trump-Khamenei meeting and putting the onus on America.