Trump rejects Iranian proposal linking truce to reopening Hormuz

US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal that Tehran said could restore normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. Trump told reporters outside the White House that Iran had made a proposal but that he had rejected it. He said Tehran wanted an agreement to reopen the waterway because it was losing the conflict, while adding that he was not opposed to making a deal in principle.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the proposal had been prepared in coordination with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, according to an interview excerpt shared by Iranian media. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the plan called for an end to hostilities in the Middle East, including in Lebanon. Araghchi said the proposal reflected conditions in an earlier memorandum of understanding with the United States.

Those conditions included releasing frozen Iranian assets, lifting sanctions on Iranian oil and ending the US naval blockade. Under the plan, Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz on the seventh day after a truce. Pezeshkian said the process would begin as soon as the United States accepted the proposal.

Araghchi said Iran had delivered a concrete seven-day plan through Qatar and that the waterway could then be reopened and ordinary maritime passage restored. At the United Nations, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said the international community had failed to protect the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab. He said Saudi Arabia opposed the use of strategic waterways as instruments of pressure or threats.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was ready to help stabilise the region. Iranian officials said Tehran remained open to talks but no longer trusted Washington. A Revolutionary Guards spokesman said Iran would continue targeting the United States until its conditions were met.

The report also said Trump had signalled scepticism about whether Iran would satisfy US demands.