Iran’s Foreign Minister Declared Hormuz Open. His Own Deputy Said No Temporary Ceasefire Is Acceptable. Both Spoke on the Same Day.

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The structural contradiction between Washington’s account of Iranian nuclear concessions and Tehran’s simultaneous denials — both reading from the same three-page document — is examined in why both sides can describe the same MOU in incompatible terms.

That same contradiction was sharpened hours later when Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf delivered a direct public rebuttal of every Trump claim: Ghalibaf’s seven-point refutation of Trump’s deal claims — and his simultaneous threat to close Hormuz if the US blockade continued — dismantled the diplomatic optimism Araghchi’s statement had briefly engineered.

The IRGC’s mechanism for executing that reversal — a formal joint command statement restoring “strict control” within hours of Araghchi’s announcement — is examined in IRGC Reversed Iran’s Own Foreign Minister on Hormuz Within Hours, Restoring ‘Strict Control’.