Why is Pezeshkian urging an end to Iran’s ‘no war, no peace’ status?

The Iranian president calls for an end to deadlock with the US, declaring it the right moment for a lasting agreement. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to what he describes as a state of “neither war nor peace” with the United States as negotiators seek an agreement to end the war. Pezeshkian said on Saturday that Iran was in a position of strength and he believed it was the right time to reach an agreement with the US. The president’s remarks came as Iran and Oman pursue an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway through which about one-fifth of global oil shipments transited in peacetime. Tehran has de facto imposed a blockade of the strait since the US and Israel began a war on Iran on February 28, which has killed more than 3,400 people.

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