Iran Says Mediators Have Not Officially Relayed a US Rejection

Iran’s proposal envisaged a pause in regional fighting and a seven-day process leading to the Strait of Hormuz reopening. President Donald Trump said Saturday he had rejected it; on Sunday, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said mediators had not officially relayed a US rejection and that Iran was awaiting definitive views.

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Kaieteur News carried a Reuters report on the sequence surrounding Iran’s proposal. Tehran announced the plan earlier in the week at the UN General Assembly and said it had been sent to the United States through Qatari mediators. On Friday, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the proposal would start a seven-day process toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz alongside a pause in regional fighting. If the United States agreed, wider talks could follow on mutually agreed subjects.

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump publicly said he had rejected the plan. On Sunday, Araqchi said mediators had not officially relayed a US rejection and that Iran was waiting for them to convey definitive views before deciding what to do. His account concerns what had been formally communicated through mediators; it does not erase Trump’s public statement. Araqchi also said reopening the strait depended on Iran’s conditions being met.

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