Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz plan, asserts US has imposed 'greatest blockade in military history'

Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz plan, asserts US has imposed 'greatest blockade in military history'.

Key points

• Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran remarked on Friday, but US President Donald Trump stated he rejected the proposal.
• Trump additionally posted an image to his Truth Social platform of a map showing the Strait of Hormuz circled and labelled "Trump Strait."
• Hossein Mohebi, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards, informed AFP in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that ending hostilities in Yemen was additionally among Tehran's demands.
• Nevertheless, Trump stated to journalists at the White House that "They (Iran) made a proposal, but I rejected it."
• Earlier today, The Wall Street Journal documented Trump had rejected the proposal, citing US office-holders familiar with the matter.

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Meanwhile, the waterway, key to the world's oil supply, is central to the conflict between the United States and Iran. It is at a stalemate after almost seven months. But new mediation efforts at the UN's gathering of world leaders in New York this week offered some optimism of progress toward a accord.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met for discussions on Tuesday with Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, and previously set out conditions for ending the war and reopening the vital shipping channel.

"Iran has conveyed to the United States, through Qatar, a concrete seven-day plan. If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime passage restored within seven days, " Araghchi remarked at the UN.

"The choice now rests with the United States. Iran does not accept coercion, threats, or intimidation, and Iran will not surrender its sovereign rights under pressure."

"They want to make a deal where they open the Strait immediately because they're losing so badly, " he continued. "They want to create a agreement and I think that's fine. I like making a accord too."

Trump continued that Tehran was facing financial pressure, claiming that they produced the proposal since they are dying – the capital isn't coming in.

"They obtained themselves into a bind; we have established the greatest blockade in military history – it's a wall of steel. And now they have no funds as they wanted to close the strait, " he continued.

According to the report, the 80-year-old president was sceptical Tehran would meet his demands and went on he sees a renewed bombing campaign as probable.

Earlier media reports suggested the new plan calls for a cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East for seven days, including in Lebanon.

As well as the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil and an end to the US naval blockade of Iran, it additionally reportedly calls for the release of frozen Iranian assets estimated to be worth at least $12 billion. On the seventh day of the truce, Iran would reopen Hormuz.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian remarked in an interview with broadcaster CBS that the ceasefire "process will begin from the very day they accept it."

"We had previously reached an agreement based on the MOU that was signed in Pakistan. If the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before, " he continued.

Notably, the US and Iran signed a Pakistani-mediated memorandum of understanding in June that aimed to end the war, reopen the strait and launch discussions on Iran's nuclear programme.

But the accord broke down shortly afterwards when Iran fired on commercial ships in Hormuz that it accused of deviating from its approved route through the waterway.

Iran requires ships to obtain authorisation before passage, citing security and sovereignty reasons.

While the United States sporadically bombs Iranian coastal areas in retaliation, ships that refuse to comply are regularly targeted.

Taken together, the developments around trump rejects Iran' s Hormuz plan, asserts US has imposed ' greatest blockade in point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.