American and Israeli officials expect a bombing campaign of about a week against Iran after the US midterm elections if a Qatar-mediated nuclear offer, now headed to Mojtaba Khamenei, collapses.
American and Israeli officials expect a bombing campaign against Iran lasting about a week after the US midterm elections if a nuclear offer from Qatar-led mediators collapses. According to the report, Iran will present the offer to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in the coming days.
Axios also reported that the offer would give UN inspectors access to Iranian nuclear sites hit in bombing raids. In return, Tehran would receive limited sanctions relief and access to frozen funds.
As reported on October 28, Qatari mediators delivered a new draft agreement to Tehran on Sunday, October 25. An official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters that the draft rested on a seven-day timeline of daily confidence-building steps for both Iran and the United States, with several countries acting as guarantors. Tehran was expected to respond by the end of that week.
Publicly, Tehran took a harder line. On Wednesday, October 28, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Qatar had not presented a ceasefire draft with the United States, only a series of proposals, and that Tehran rejected those proposals.
"The only thing we received is a list of unacceptable ideas. We will not compromise on the nuclear issue," the official said.
Khamenei has also set conditions of his own. On October 27, his office said he had told Mohsen Rezaei that Iran's rights and interests must be guaranteed before Tehran ends the fighting and moves beyond what it called a state of "neither war nor peace."
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