⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Despite President Donald Trump earlier rejecting the latest Iranian proposal conveyed to Washington during indirect talks in New York this week, a U.S. official said discussions between the two sides remain “positive and constructive,” including on nuclear issues — Axios.

➡️ U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held another round of indirect negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, with Qatari officials participating as intermediaries, according to sources cited by the outlet.

Araghchi presented Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear negotiations, proposing that both processes restart within a week if the United States lifts its naval blockade, removes sanctions on Iranian oil sales and reinstates a regional ceasefire. A source said U.S. negotiators responded that Iran does not control the strait and therefore cannot make demands concerning its reopening.

➡️ Separately, U.S. officials stated that dozens of oil tankers are transiting the Strait of Hormuz each day under U.S. protection, carrying millions of barrels to global markets, and claimed that around 60 million barrels had transited the strait over the preceding 72 hours, although flows remained below pre-war levels.

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