Iran awaits US response on Hormuz reopening proposal
Tehran says reopening the Strait of Hormuz depends on a regional ceasefire and other conditions. No US response or agreement has been confirmed.
Iran expects a formal US response on Tuesday to its proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, according to France 24.
Araghchi said Qatari intermediaries had discussed Iran’s ideas and would raise them with Washington again before conveying the US response. He said Qatar hoped this would happen by Tuesday.
Iran says reopening the strait is conditional on a regional ceasefire, lifting sanctions on its oil sector, unfreezing Iranian assets abroad and ending the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. These are Tehran’s stated demands; the supplied account does not establish Washington’s position.
France 24 reports that Iran imposed a blockade on the strait after the conflict began, prompting a US blockade on Iranian ports. The route carried about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas before the war.
Araghchi met US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in New York last week, France 24 reported. The expected timing of a US response remains an expectation attributed to Araghchi and Qatari intermediaries.
