Iran's Tasnim news agency reiterates Tehran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US lifts its naval blockade.
Tasnim news agency provided the official statement rejecting the ceasefire extension and linking the Strait's reopening solely to the blockade being lifted.
The statement now explicitly includes the threat to break the blockade by force, escalating the rhetoric from a refusal to reopen the strait.
The new statement escalates Iran's position by explicitly threatening to use force to break the US naval blockade.
The Tasnim report adds the specific phrasing that continuation of the blockade 'amounts to continued hostility' and explicitly ties the threat of force to breaking the blockade, not just closing the strait.
Iranian officials explicitly stated they did not ask for the ceasefire extension, reinforcing the blockade as their sole condition for talks.
