Iran has proposed a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks with the United States, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
Araghchi told US reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that Tehran had presented the proposal through a mediator, with the strait to reopen at the end of the seventh day if certain conditions were met.
He declined to disclose the conditions, saying they were “nothing more” than what the two countries agreed to in June.
Iranian state media reported that the conditions included the immediate lifting of the US naval blockade off Iran’s coast, the release of frozen Iranian assets and an end to the war on all fronts.
A White House official told CNN that the US was having “positive and constructive discussions through the mediators.”
Representatives of the US and Iran held talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, marking the first such negotiations between the two countries in months.
The Strait of Hormuz is a crucial route for global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments and remains a major point of dispute between Washington and Tehran.
