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US President Donald Trump said Washington had rejected Iran’s latest proposal conveyed during indirect negotiations in New York this week, according to US news outlet “Axios”.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Saturday, Trump said: “They have made a proposal and I rejected it.”
Despite the rejection, a US official said “positive and constructive” discussions between Washington and Tehran were continuing through regional mediators, including on nuclear issues, “Axios” reported.
What Iran proposed
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner held a new round of indirect talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York this week.
According to sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations, Qatari officials relayed messages between the two sides during the discussions.
Araghchi presented Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear negotiations. Tehran proposed reopening the strategic waterway and restarting nuclear talks within a week in exchange for Washington lifting its naval blockade, removing sanctions on Iranian oil sales and reinstating a ceasefire across the region.
US response to Tehran’s demands
US negotiators told their Iranian counterparts that Tehran did not control the Strait of Hormuz and therefore could not make demands concerning it, a source told “Axios”.
The negotiations took place as Türkiye, Qatar and other regional mediators sought to revive diplomacy between Washington and Tehran. Significant differences, however, remain over the central issues.
