Iran has said Washington’s reply to its proposal for reopening the Strait of Hormuz does not adequately address its conditions, leaving differences unresolved over restoring maritime passage. In a Reuters report published by gCaptain, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei was cited by state media on Sunday, 11 October, as saying the US response fell short of Tehran’s requirements.
Iran put forward the proposal during the UN General Assembly. It envisaged reopening the strategic waterway and returning maritime transit to normal within seven days, provided seven conditions were fulfilled. Washington subsequently sent its response through Qatari intermediaries. The reported timetable was therefore conditional on meeting Tehran’s demands, rather than a fixed date for shipping to resume normal passage.
Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the US had agreed to some conditions but that other points still lacked clarity. He called on Washington to explain those unresolved matters and said Tehran was no longer preparing a response of its own. According to the account carried by gCaptain, he also maintained that Iran would neither open the strait to the Americans nor enter negotiations until its conditions had been satisfied.
The White House did not immediately provide a comment when approached by Reuters. The latest remarks followed Tehran’s announcement in late September that it had received an American reply to its most recent plan to revive the collapsed Gulf ceasefire. That announcement came several days after US President Donald Trump said he had turned the proposal down.
Qatar and other mediators have been relaying communications between the two sides in an attempt to bring the conflict to an end and reopen Hormuz. The route carried a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas before the war, according to the report. The conflict began at the end of February with US and Israeli attacks on Iran, placing the diplomatic effort in direct focus for maritime energy trade.