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Trump publicly rejects Iran's latest Hormuz proposal, calling it 'unacceptable'

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Saturday, Donald Trump publicly rejected Iran's latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, days after the Wall Street Journal reported he had turned down the seven-day plan.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 2 min read

Official White House portrait of US President Donald Trump
Photo: The White House via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Donald Trump has publicly rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, telling reporters at the White House on Saturday that the deal Tehran offered was “unacceptable”.

“I reject their proposal,” the president said when asked about Iran’s plan. “They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they’re losing so badly. They want to make a deal and I think that’s fine. I like making a deal too, but that deal would not be acceptable.”

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, announced earlier this week that Tehran had submitted a fresh offer that would see the critical waterway reopen and negotiations resume in exchange for the United States meeting several long-standing demands — “nothing more”, he said, than what was included in a US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed in June but which collapsed shortly afterwards amid renewed fighting. That agreement had covered sanctions relief, the release of frozen assets and a cessation of military operations, including in Lebanon.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Araghchi said the proposal would take effect “as soon as the United States accepts this plan”, adding: “If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, a normal maritime passage restored within seven days. The choice now rests with the United States.”

“You cannot bomb a country, threaten its annihilation, impose a maritime blockade, and coercive measures, and expect automatic restoration of security and navigation,” he added.

A White House official had previously told CNN the two sides were having “positive and constructive discussions through the mediators”, but that the US was “not in a rush”. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier in the week: “If there’s going to be a deal with Iran…it’s going to involve a lot of hard work over a period of time.”

The public rejection follows the Wall Street Journal’s report on Friday, citing US officials, that Trump had told staff he expected to resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections — a development Flip News covered in its earlier report.

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