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 has given the US a proposal to open the Strait of Ormous and end the war, while Tehran proposes to postpone negotiations on its nuclear programme to a later date, as Axios writes with reference to sources.
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