Iran says US response to its proposal to reopen Hormuz is ‘insufficient’

Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, has dismissed the United States' response to Tehran's proposal as insufficient, according to state media. Iran presented a seven-point proposal to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz during the UN General Assembly, stating that the waterway could be reopened within seven days if the conditions were met.

However, Rezaei, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Reuters that the US response was lacking. He emphasized that Iran presented the conditions, and the Strait would not reopen until they were addressed.

The White House has not yet provided a comment on the matter. Rezaei further stated that Iran is no longer engaged in ongoing negotiations with the Americans, and the US response has accepted some of Iran's conditions while leaving others unclear. In late September, Iran announced it had received a US response to its latest proposal to restart the faltering ceasefire in the Gulf, following US President Donald Trump's statement that he had rejected it.

Efforts to resolve the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical conduit for a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas, have been ongoing through messages exchanged between Qatar and the US and Iran.