By Parisa Hafezi<\/p>\n
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) \u2013 Iran can reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States eases \u200bmilitary pressure and lifts its blockade on \u200cIranian ports, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Iran\u2019s military central command said it was informed the US was preparing to restart military operations with the \u200csupport \u200bof regional countries, and warned \u2060this would lead to \u2060Tehran\u2019s retaliation \u201cwithout limitations and considerations\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US needs to announce that it wants to resolve the issue diplomatically, make that official, and then agree on \u200ba timeline for how the process will move forward\u201d, the senior Iranian official said, adding the \u2060Iranian delegation to the \u2060United Nations General Assembly is in New \u200bYork and has full authority to revive diplomacy with \u200bthe United States.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian, who left \u200cTehran for New York on Tuesday morning, will not meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters in New York, the official told \u2060Reuters.<\/p>\n
The Iranian official said details on an agreement to end hostilities with Washington can be discussed in New York \u2060via mediators, \u200cexplaining that Tehran\u2019s proposal was delivered \u2060to the US via mediators on September \u200b16.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe \u200cUN General Assembly is a golden \u200bopportunity for \u2060the US to return to diplomacy\u201d, the official said, adding that Tehran would welcome a revival of diplomacy if Washington takes tangible steps.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, writing by Dubai Newsroom, editing by Andrew Heavens \u200band Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Parisa Hafezi NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) \u2013 Iran can reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-856603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}