Iran has taken a hard line, demanding the lifting of sanctions and legal guarantees before a ceasefire can be agreed upon, stating that its 47-year confrontation with the United States "must come to an end."

According to Mars Finance, on March 24, Mohsen Rezaei, military advisor to Iran's new Supreme Leader, emphasized in an interview broadcast on Iranian state television on March 23 that Iran would not stop the war until it received all compensation, all economic sanctions were lifted, and it obtained international legal guarantees of non-interference in Iranian affairs by the United States. Rezaei also stressed that the dispute between Iran and the United States was not only about the current conflict or the US-Israeli attacks on Iran last June, but had lasted for 47 years since the victory of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, and must be "brought to a close." (Jinshi)