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Iran’s Abbas Araghchi Proposes Seven-Day Roadmap To End War With U.S., Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Iran proposes seven-day plan to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Plan aims to implement June memorandum conditions and seek lifting of sanctions and blockade.
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CNBC
“If certain conditions are met, the Strait of Hormuz will be open at the end of seven days, and talks will be restarted”Read the original ↗
Reuters
“US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war”Read the original ↗
CNBC stresses Iran’s conditional timetable; Reuters stresses an ongoing phased negotiation track.
Seven-day Hormuz roadmap
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi proposed a seven-day roadmap to end the war with the United States and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and he outlined the plan to reporters in New York on Thursday. Araghchi said the proposal seeks to implement conditions in the Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Washington and Tehran in June, including a halt to hostilities and the reopening of the strait. Araghchi told reporters, "If certain conditions are met, the Strait of Hormuz will be open at the end of seven days, and talks will be restarted," and he tied the timetable to U.S. acceptance of the plan.
The proposal also called for Washington to release Iran’s frozen assets, estimated at no less than $12bn, waive sanctions on Iranian oil, and lift its naval blockade, with the strait reopening on the final day. Iran’s plan also set hostilities ending on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, within seven days, and it said talks on Iran’s nuclear programme would start immediately.
Mediators and competing timelines
Iran said it conveyed the proposal to the United States through Qatari mediators this week, and it described the seven-day plan as a compressed version of a June ceasefire deal that subsequently collapsed. Araghchi told journalists and think tank experts at a meeting with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Thursday afternoon, "The conditions we have asked the U.S. to meet are nothing new, nothing more than what was already in the Islamabad MOU". Iran’s proposal also described a sequence in which the seven days would "begin the day after U.S. accepts this plan," and it said Iran was "waiting for their response and their reaction."
The Guardian reported that Iran said it was willing to open the strait of Hormuz in six days and to start talks on its nuclear program the day after, so long as the US lifted sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, ended the war on all fronts including in Lebanon, and released some of Iran’s frozen assets. The Guardian also quoted Araghchi saying, "We have introduced a plan to the US through the mediators that if certain conditions are met, the strait will be open within seven days and talks will start," while it described the nuclear talks under the MoU as not starting for 60 days.
What is at stake
Iran’s proposal framed the Strait of Hormuz as the key pressure point for ending the conflict, and it linked reopening to the impact of restrictions on maritime traffic on oil and gas exports and the global economy. The proposal also demanded that the United States lift its naval blockade, release frozen Iranian assets estimated at no less than $12bn, and waive sanctions on Iranian oil, while it said talks on Iran’s nuclear programme would start immediately. The Guardian reported that Araghchi was waiting to hear a response from the Americans and said he was not in a hurry, while it described Iranian officials as fearing Israel would use its influence to pull the U.S. president away from the proposal.
“We have introduced a plan to the US through the mediators that if certain conditions are met, the strait will be open within seven days and talks will start.”
The Guardian also said the UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband met Araghchi in New York and made clear that the UK was committed to freedom of navigation in the strait and wanted a diplomatic solution. Araghchi warned that the preconditions were not new and were contained in the Islamabad memorandum of understanding signed by Trump, and he said he would like the deal to go through before the midterm elections.