Iran

Tehran, September 27, 2026. The rejection of the Iranian plan in seven days by Donald Trump comes as no surprise to the Iranian press, which has been documenting for several days the precautions taken by the country's diplomacy to frame its proposal. According to Mehr News, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi explained that the central axis of his talks in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, was to present conditions "approved by the Supreme National Security Council" for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, transmitted in full to the mediators and then relayed to the American side. A first reaction from the American president followed, he specified, "but nothing has yet been received from the mediators." Before Iranian journalists, Araghchi denounced "contradictory" statements from Washington and said he was waiting for a "definitive" position before making any decision.

The YJC website, citing the Wall Street Journal, reports that Trump rejected the proposal for a seven-day ceasefire at the end of which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened and talks would be initiated, in exchange for the lifting of the American naval blockade. For analyst Seyed Mohammad Marandi, quoted by YJC, the pressure from Netanyahu and his allies may have weighed on this refusal; he warns that an Israeli prime minister fearing electoral defeat may seek to delay the vote through escalation.

President Massoud Pezeshkian, in an interview with Al Jazeera relayed by Asr Iran, rejected any responsibility for the closure of the passage: "It was not us who started closing the route. It is America that is closing it, and it is Israel that is setting the region on fire." He believes the file can be resolved "through dialogue, not coercion".

On the military front, the spokesman for the armed forces, General Chekartchi, warned that any American intervention in the strait "will receive a slap", while Tabnak reports on an American MQ-1 drone claimed to have been shot down by the Revolutionary Guards — an assertion whose technical details, the site itself notes, remain unverified independently.