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MapAbbas Araghchi Says Iran Reviews Plan to Reopen Strait of Hormuz Within Days
“Iran continues to give diplomacy a chance to succeed”
“Qatar urged Iran on Tuesday to ‘show goodwill’ by stopping threats”
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Iran in close contact with mediators to implement a seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz. Iran could reopen the Strait within days if conditions are accepted, per mediation talks.
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7-Day Plan, Faster Talk
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran was in “close and ongoing contact with intermediaries” as it reviewed ideas to implement its 7-Day Plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in “even less than a week.” Araghchi said Iran was “fully prepared to defend the Homeland,” while it continued to “give diplomacy a chance to succeed” through intermediaries mediating between Tehran and Washington.
Iran proposed a seven-day plan in September that it conveyed to the United States through Qatar, and it described Hormuz reopening within seven days if “necessary conditions” including a ceasefire across the Middle East were met. PressTV said Araghchi suggested Iran could expedite reopening “within days” if its conditions were accepted, and it described a sequence in which Iran would reopen Hormuz on the sixth day and resume talks on the seventh day for a final deal.
Qatar Mediation, US Sequence
Qatar’s mediation efforts centered on a proposal in which Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz for commercial shipping in exchange for the United States lifting its naval blockade of Iranian ports, while the main obstacle remained “disagreement over the sequence of concessions.” نورنیوز said Washington sought to impose nuclear restrictions at the initial stage, while Tehran resisted that demand, and it added that CIA confidential assessments were cited to say Iran had “satellites and sufficient reserves of food and fuel.”
Iran demanded the unfreezing of its assets abroad, the lifting of sanctions on its oil sector, and an end to the US naval blockade, and regional mediators led by Qatar were pushing for “a diplomatic deal” to restart US-Iran talks. Haaretz reported that a senior Iranian official said a Qatari proposal offered “unacceptable ideas,” as Tehran continued to discuss proposals that could implement a seven-day peace plan.
New Conditions, UN Inspectors
Iran added a $24 billion reserves precondition to its demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, raising the threshold for any deal “just six days before the United States midterm elections on November 3,” according to https. The same source said the seven-day reopening clock would not begin until Washington unfreezes Iranian assets and lifts container clearance restrictions at Bandar Abbas, and it described a two-stage process in which the seven-day countdown begins only after those steps.
ميدل ايست اونلاين said the dispute remained over whether the return of IAEA inspectors and access to damaged nuclear facilities would be prerequisites for progress, and it said Iran was willing to discuss the nuclear program at a high level but had not agreed to inspectors’ return. Iran’s plan was conveyed to the United States through Qatar and mediators were trying to convince Iran to allow UN inspectors to visit its bombed nuclear sites “in return for some sanctions relief from the US.”