Iran's Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Rezaei informed Pakistan's Munir of Iran's explicit rejection of the American demands, reports Al Hadath

• Rezaei informed Munir that Tehran is aware of Trump and Netanyahu's plans to launch a new strike on Iran.
• Rezaei stipulated that Tehran's seven conditions must be accepted before negotiations on the nuclear issue can begin.
• Munir's meeting with Rezaei aimed to de-escalate tensions and open a new path for negotiations.

Episodes in which Tehran routes messages through third-party intermediaries rather than engaging Washington directly are an established feature of its negotiating form, with intermediaries typically carrying de-escalatory intent while Tehran simultaneously raises its public price. The pairing here fits that pattern: a mediation visit framed as de-escalation, coupled with published preconditions that function as a negotiating floor rather than a genuine entry requirement, and the leaking of strike-plan claims, a familiar lever to rally domestic opinion and deterrence rhetoric. The actor set is telling: Rezaei carries the Supreme National Security Council brief, which is the channel through which the Supreme Leader's office speaks on security matters, so the rejection signals institutional position rather than one official's view. Pakistan's army chief playing courier is also within precedent, as Islamabad has previously offered itself as an intermediary between Washington and Tehran given its border and ties to both. The distinction worth drawing is between preconditions that block talks outright and those that price the table; historically the gap between the two has been bridged through back-channels before any public climbdown. The follow-ons are whether the intermediary channel survives the public rejection, any movement on the stated conditions, and how Washington characterises the outreach, since official silence versus rebuttal has tended to indicate whether quiet contact continues.