Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the blockade is lifted, and Trump reportedly rejects it

According to the French press, the proposal had initially circulated discreetly: the Japanese agency Kyodo revealed it as early as Tuesday, before Iranian media denied it, without official clarification from Tehran until Friday.

The text reproduces, almost word for word, the agreement protocol signed in June between Donald Trump and Massoud Pezeshkian, which remained a dead letter, the French press emphasizes. According to VG and Aftenposten, Abbas Araghchi himself specified that these conditions implied nothing significantly more than what the two countries had agreed on in June. YLE Uutiset recalls that this agreement had collapsed after Iranian attacks on merchant ships accused of having deviated from their route.

In New York, Iranian diplomacy keeps several channels open in parallel: Abbas Araghchi also met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, with both ministers stating that "there is no alternative to a diplomatic solution", according to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as quoted by Sputnik.

The rejection of the plan attributed to Donald Trump is based, in several perspectives in the corpus, solely on the Wall Street Journal: seven of the eighteen national covers gathered here - Brazilian, Finnish, French, Malaysian, Nepalese, Portuguese, and Romanian - relay this information without official confirmation from the White House; this count measures the circulation of information in the press, not its accuracy.

The Norwegian and Qatari perspectives, on the other hand, only report exchanges described as "positive and constructive" by American officials, without mentioning any rejection: VG and Aftenposten quote a White House official to this effect, and Al Jazeera reports that State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott assured on Saturday that the door to diplomacy remained open.

Before the General Assembly, Donald Trump summarized his dilemma without making a decision: he had, according to CBS News, "a big decision to make", between an agreement with Iran or "annihilating" the country.

Doha highlights its role as a channel: according to Gulf Times, it was through Qatar that Iran transmitted its plan to Washington, without either party announcing a breakthrough at this stage.

Islamabad claims an earlier role: before the UN, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stated that he had brought Washington and Tehran "under one roof" in Islamabad, ahead of a memorandum of understanding that he described as a "historic step", praising the efforts of Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir.

Seoul, on its part, is conducting a two-pronged diplomacy: according to Korea Pro, on September 24, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met with Abbas Araghchi to demand a guaranteed passage for all ships, without engaging his country in the conflict; the two ministers signed a treaty on the transfer of convicted prisoners between their two countries on the same day.

On the markets, the announcement had an immediate effect on Friday: the Dow Jones gained 0.93%, report El Financiero and RTP Notícias, while the US reference barrel, West Texas Intermediate, fell by 1.91%, to $92.80, according to El Financiero.

Saudi Arabia has already reorganized its crude sales: Riyadh increased its exports to 6 million barrels per day in September, an increase of nearly 80% compared to August, bypassing the strait, according to CNBC.

The UN warns on another front: Deputy Secretary-General Jorge Moreira da Silva warned that at least 45 million people in developing countries risk food shortages if the supply of fertilizers through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of global trade passes, remains disrupted, according to TASS.

Regional tensions are not easing: Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani recalled the death of an Indian national in an attack on a ship off the coast of Oman, while Houthi missile strikes targeted Saudi targets on Friday, according to Nepalese and American press.