US EditionIran offers to end chokehold on Strait of Hormuz and asks US to end blockade
Pakistan-mediated talks would defer nuclear negotiations until the strait reopens and the U.S. blockade ends, officials said.
- On Monday, Iran offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program, provided the United States ends its blockade of the country.
- President Donald Trump canceled envoy travel to Islamabad this weekend, insisting any permanent ceasefire must include Iran's atomic program as part of an overall deal.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Russia on Monday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, having previously visited Islamabad and Muscat to coordinate diplomatic efforts.
- The U.S. military's Central Command has turned around 38 ships during the blockade, while President Trump told Fox News Channel on Sunday, "If they want to talk, they can come to us."
- Since the war began, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran and at least 2,509 in Lebanon, with 23 deaths in Israel and 13 U.S. service members also lost.
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Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if U.S. lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say
President Donald Trump seems unlikely to accept the offer, which was passed to the Americans by Pakistan and would leave unresolved the disagreements that led the U.S. and Israel to go to war on Feb. 28.
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The Latest: Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts blockade and war ends, officials say
Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program. Two officials with knowledge of the proposal said Monday that Iran also wants the United States to ends its blockade of the country…
Iran 'offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends'
Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the US lifting its blockade on the country and an end to the war, while proposing that discussions on the larger question of its nuclear program would come in a later phase, two regional officials say.US President Donald Trump seems unlikely to accept the offer, which was passed to the Americans by Pakistan and would leave unresolved the disagreements that led the US a…
Iran offers to end chokehold on Strait of Hormuz and asks U.S. to end blockade, officials say
Iranian sources on Monday disclosed Tehran's latest proposal to bridge gaps with the U.S. over worldwide shipping woes resulting from the war started two months earlier, which would push wider talks about Iran's nuclear program until later.
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