Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Iran's response to US proposals will be presented through mediators, IRNA reports

Indirect negotiation through mediators has been the standard format for US-Iran exchanges across past cycles of escalation, and statements of this kind, conditions restated publicly while the substantive reply travels via intermediaries, have typically signalled that the back-channel remains open rather than that positions have converged. The operative distinction in prior episodes has been between rhetorical defiance for domestic consumption and actual movement in the mediated track, which historically only becomes visible through leaks from the intermediaries themselves or shifts in force posture. The reference to safe routes through the Strait and an Iran-Oman arrangement is the more concrete element: Hormuz transit risk prices through tanker rates, war-risk insurance premia, and the prompt end of the crude curve rather than the flat price alone, and formalised routing agreements have in past episodes compressed those premia before flat price followed. Worth observing are the identity of the mediators carrying the response, any accompanying change in shipping behaviour through the Strait, and whether the other side publicly acknowledges receipt, since in comparable sequences acknowledgment has been the tell that a de-escalation track is real. As a spokesperson statement, this is positioning rather than resolution.