Iran Offers Plan to Focus on Strait of Hormuz and Delay Nuclear Talks

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Iran Offers Plan to Focus on Strait of Hormuz and Delay Nuclear Talks

In its latest offer delivered on Sunday, Iran proposed opening the key waterway to shipping traffic and lifting the U.S. blockade, while postponing the thornier nuclear issue until later.

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April 27, 2026,

2:51 p.m. ET

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Iran has offered the United States a new proposal for negotiations that focuses on opening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the U.S. sea blockade on Iran as a way of ending the war and then tackling nuclear negotiations later, according to three Iranian officials.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, delivered this latest plan to Pakistan on Sunday, after an initial proposal from Iran a day earlier had been rejected by President Trump, according to the Iranian officials familiar with the details of negotiations who asked not to be named because they were discussing sensitive diplomacy.

Mr. Trump is holding a meeting this afternoon to review Iran’s latest proposal.

“They have achieved none of their goals, and this is why they are asking for negotiations; we are now considering it,” Mr. Araghchi said to a Russian reporter on Monday, according to a video of the interview. Mr. Araghchi was in Russia on Monday and met with President Vladimir V. Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The White House was mum on its response. “These are sensitive diplomatic discussions, and the U.S. will not negotiate through the press,” said Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman. “As the President has said, the United States holds the cards and will only make a deal that puts the American people first, never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

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Iran’s new proposal was delivered after weeks in which Tehran and Washington exchanged draft proposals but made no headway on the thorny issues surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. The United States has demanded that Iran suspend its

nuclear program for 20 years and hand over its 972 pound stockpile of highly enriched uranium

, which could quickly be turned into several bombs if Iran chose to militarize its program.

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