Iran Awaits Formal Response After Trump Rejects Hormuz Plan

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran remains open to diplomacy while prepared for renewed fighting with the United States, after President Donald Trump publicly rejected Iran’s proposed seven-day framework linking the Strait of Hormuz to a broader settlement. Araghchi said Iran was still awaiting a definitive response through mediators, leaving the proposal’s diplomatic status unresolved. Araghchi described the framework as an offer conveyed through intermediaries during the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York. In his account, Iran would reopen the strait and resume negotiations if Washington took steps including ending its blockade of Iranian ports and releasing frozen Iranian assets. He also said Tehran wanted to be able to sell its oil. The proposal’s terms have not been independently established in the information available, and no agreement is in effect. The seven-day period is a proposed timetable, not a schedule accepted by both governments. Accounts of the sequence differ: some describe the waterway reopening on the sixth day, while another says the seventh.