expired in August<\/a> as each side accused the other of violations, and there has been little sign since that they could return to the agreement, although Tehran has suggested it could happen.<\/p>\nUnder Iran\u2019s proposal, hostilities would end on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, within seven days, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
Washington would also release Iran\u2019s frozen assets, estimated at no less than $12bn, waive sanctions on Iranian oil and lift its naval blockade.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz would reopen on the final day of the period. Talks on Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, ostensibly the root cause of the conflict according to President Donald Trump, would start immediately.<\/p>\n
The proposal closely resembles the MoU, but sets out a hugely ambitious timetable. The Pakistani and Qatari-brokered deal signed on June 17 set a 60-day window for negotiations, but still unravelled within weeks.<\/p>\n
Vague wording led to disputes over who controlled shipping through the strait, and the two sides traded attacks before US President Donald Trump declared the deal \u201cover\u201d on July 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have introduced a plan to the United States through the intermediators,\u201d Araghchi told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u2018America must choose\u2019<\/p>\n
Separately, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a US television interview that it is for the the Trump administration to choose whether to end the war, as Tehran does not wish to continue fighting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we can resolve issues through dialogue, we shouldn\u2019t resort to killing one another. But with the instigations conducted by Israel, they have imposed this war on us,\u201d he said on Fox News\u2019 \u2018Special Report with Bret Baier\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we do not wish to continue. It\u2019s America that must choose whether it wants to end this or not,\u201d he said in remarks translated by the broadcaster that aired on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, telling the world that Iran would not \u201cbend at the knee\u201d to Washington \u2013 even as Trump acknowledged ongoing US-Iran talks.<\/p>\n
In the Fox interview, he said: \u201cIf the current American government, within international legal frameworks, wishes to reach an agreement, fine. If not, before the [US midterm] elections or after the elections, what difference does it make for us?\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Pezeshkian said Tehran would \u201cimmediately reciprocate\u201d if the US returned to its commitments under the MoU.<\/p>\n
Slow-moving diplomacy<\/p>\n
An unnamed White House official told CNN that the administration was having \u201cpositive and constructive discussions through the mediators\u201d. The New York Times quoted an official as saying that Washington would not rush into a deal.<\/p>\n
An Iranian security source told Al Jazeera there could be room for further diplomatic engagement if Washington met Iran\u2019s conditions and commitments.<\/p>\n
However, analysts said the proposal suggests that diplomatic efforts between the US and Iran are not advancing significantly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically nothing has really changed,\u201d Cyrus Schayegh, professor of international history and politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
Iran \u201ckeeps insisting that it wants to keep the additional power it gained during the war and that the June memorandum still is basically key to the roadmap moving forward,\u201d said the professor, while the US \u201ckeeps basically refusing to accept this roadmap debate\u201d.<\/p>\n
No significant movement towards ending the conflict is likely before the US mid-term elections in November, he asserted.<\/p>\n
Araghchi told reporters that \u201cit would be better\u201d to reach a deal before that vote. Pezeshkian said earlier that any agreements with the US would not be tied to the timing of the midterms, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
Qatar\u2019s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that top diplomat Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, one of the main mediators in the conflicts across the Middle East region, had spoken with Pezeshkian about de-escalation and conditions for dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has proposed a seven-day roadmap aimed at ending the war with the United States. Foreign Minister Abbas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,231941,24],"class_list":["post-860259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860259","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=860259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}