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Iran has proposed a seven-day truce with the United States to pave the way for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming talks, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told media outlets in New York.
Araghchi, who is in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, said Hormuz could be reopened within seven days if certain conditions were met, after which negotiations would begin.
“If certain conditions are met, the strait will be open within seven days and talks will start,” Abbas Araghchi said.
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Japanese news agency Kyodo first reported the proposal on Tuesday, citing a senior Iranian official. Iranian media later rejected the report, while authorities in Tehran have yet to publicly clarify their position.
Araghchi also held talks on Tuesday with Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s envoy.
According to the latest proposal outlined by Araghchi, as quoted by the New York Times, the conditions include a seven-day halt to hostilities across the Middle East, including Lebanon.
Iran is also seeking the release of at least $12 billion in frozen assets, the lifting of sanctions on its oil exports and an end to the US naval blockade.
Under the proposal, Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz on the seventh day of the truce. Araghchi said he was awaiting a response from Washington and maintained that China supported the proposal.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting the United States this week for talks with Trump.
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Hossein Mohebi, a spokesman for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, also told AFP on Tuesday that an end to hostilities in Yemen was among Tehran’s conditions for ending the conflict. The latest proposal follows a memorandum of understanding signed by Iran and the United States in June aimed at ending the war, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and beginning negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme.
That agreement later collapsed after Iran fired on commercial vessels in the strait, accusing them of deviating from authorised routes.
Iran requires ships to obtain approval before passing through the waterway, citing security and sovereignty concerns. Vessels that fail to comply have been targeted, while the United States has carried out periodic strikes on Iranian coastal areas in response.
