Iran has sent the United States a seven-day plan through Qatar under which the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened and normal shipping restored, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday.
“Through Qatar, we conveyed a specific seven-day plan and said that if the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened and normal maritime traffic can return within seven days. The choice is now with America,” Araghchi told the 52nd session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers in Baghdad, Türkiye Today reported.
Araghchi did not set out the conditions in his reported remarks.
He said Iran was ready for talks with Washington but wanted “credible guarantees” against new attacks first.
Araghchi said shipping through the strait had recovered to about 60% of prewar levels within two weeks of a memorandum of understanding signed in Islamabad on June 17. Pakistan mediated that agreement with support from Qatar. He said US military action then prevented its implementation.
Traffic through Hormuz remains about 70% below prewar levels, according to Türkiye Today.
Indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington are continuing through Qatar and Oman, Iranian lawmaker Yaqoub Rezazadeh told the ILNA news agency. “We have presented a set of conditions, and the other side has also presented a set of conditions,” he said.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Saturday that two tankers had hit mines in the strait. That claim has not been independently confirmed.
Brent crude settled at $109.86 a barrel on Friday, its highest close since May.
Iraq took over the rotating presidency of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers from Türkiye at the Baghdad meeting.
