[Iran: Iran Will Not Bow First to Request Negotiations with the U.S.] Golden Finance reported on July 15 that on July 14 local time, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Gharibabadi stated in an interview that the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz is not important to the United States, and U.S. President Trump himself has admitted this. However, the U.S. does not want Iran to have actual sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Gharibabadi also mentioned that Iran has never left the negotiation table; it was the U.S. that tore up the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Iran will absolutely not bow first to request negotiations with the U.S. (CCTV International News)