Trump Rejects Iran’s Seven-Day Hormuz Proposal

President Donald Trump said September 26 that he had rejected Iran’s conditional proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear negotiations, leaving the status of any further diplomatic talks uncertain. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the plan offered to restore normal passage within seven days if Washington met Tehran’s conditions. Trump called the proposal unacceptable in remarks to reporters outside the White House. Araghchi said Iran had conveyed the seven-day plan through Qatar, which has served as a mediator. Under the terms he described, the United States would lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports, ease sanctions on Iranian oil sales and accept a ceasefire covering the region, including Lebanon. Iran would then reopen the strait and resume talks on its nuclear program within a week. The proposal’s full text has not been made public, and its terms are known through Iranian officials’ accounts. The rejection followed indirect discussions between Iranian officials and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. A U.S. official described the mediated discussions as positive and constructive.