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Vista elevada de un estrecho entre costas rocosas al amanecer, con cuatro buques petroleros navegando sobre aguas tranquilas y montañas brumosas al fondo.
Buques petroleros atraviesan un estrecho entre costas rocosas al amanecer, en una imagen alusiva a las negociaciones sobre Ormuz. · Imagen generada por EPM

Iran and the United States negotiate a two-day Hormuz reopening

Iran said on Sunday that indirect talks with the United States, mediated by Qatar, are continuing over a two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with no…

--- The context --- The Strait of Hormuz sits at the center of the dispute that keeps the eight-month war between Iran and the United States open. Its reopening is the central piece of a peace plan Tehran presented with a seven-day timeframe and now negotiates in two days, with Qatar as mediator. --- The facts --- Iran said on Sunday that indirect talks with the United States, mediated by Qatar, are continuing over a two-day plan to reopen the strait, although no concrete result has been reached yet after a week of intense diplomatic efforts. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on the sidelines of a parliamentary session, as reported by the Iranian parliamentary agency, that the outcome depends on the other side's answers to Iran's questions. An Iranian delegation led by a deputy foreign minister traveled to Qatar yesterday to continue talks with the Qatari mediators, who had visited Tehran before. --- The positions --- Araghchi said his country is doing everything possible through diplomacy and expressed hope that the other side would act rationally and give priority to diplomacy, while noting that Iran is prepared for any scenario. He clarified that the Qatar meetings included no plan for direct negotiation with Washington. President Donald Trump, who rejected the seven-day plan and keeps up the pressure through the naval blockade and sanctions, said yesterday that he will not attack before this Tuesday's midterm elections and that the negotiations are going well, although he warned that Washington still has pending military objectives. --- What remains unknown --- The proposal of September 25, presented by Araghchi in New York, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, called for a ceasefire in the Middle East, an end to the naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil and the release of frozen assets, in exchange for reopening Hormuz and negotiating a definitive agreement. Qatar proposed cutting that timeframe from seven to five days, and work is under way to bring it down to two, Araghchi explained yesterday to a Qatari channel. --- Unanswered questions --- What answers does Tehran expect from the other side in order to close the two-day plan? Would the brief reopening include any verification of transit, or would it rest entirely on mutual trust? Could a two-day agreement open the door to negotiating the oil sanctions and frozen assets? --- EPM analysis --- Shortening the timeframe, from seven days to two, suggests a search for a testable measure rather than a complete settlement. A Qatari delegation traveled to Iran at least twice this week, and senior defense officials from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey met on Monday in Tehran. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the fact that the timeframe has shrunk from seven days to two shows that the negotiation is moving through practical steps and that mediation is producing movement where pressure alone did not. The decisive fact is not yet an agreement, but the continuity of the indirect channel after an intense week of contacts. If the pending answers arrive before the midterm elections, the brief reopening could become the first verifiable de-escalation measure after eight months of war, provided both sides honor what is agreed.
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