Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day roadmap to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Tehran had submitted a proposal via Qatar to reopen the strait and resume nuclear talks within a week if Washington agreed.United States President Donald Trump has rejected a roadmap submitted by Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz within a week.“I reject their proposal,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday, before departing for Tennessee by helicopter.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Pezeshkian says Iran ‘no longer trusts talks with Washington’list 2 of 3US official claims Trump holds all the cards in Iran talkslist 3 of 3Trump ‘rejects’ Iran’s seven-day ceasefire proposal. What’s next?end of listIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that Tehran formally submitted a seven-day roadmap to the US via mediator Qatar, and was awaiting Washington’s response.“It appears as though the proposal is dead in the water,” said Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC.Late on Friday, US media reports indicated Trump would reject the proposal.Trump was “privately sceptical” that Tehran would meet his demands, and reportedly told aides that he expects a renewed bombing campaign on Iran after the November US midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reported, quoting unnamed US officials.“President Trump has vacillated between extreme optimism, saying that ‘talks are going well’ to ‘I want to annihilate Iran’,” Hanna said about the recent diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.“There is no consistency in terms of the [Trump] administration’s reaction,” he said.But “the one thing that has been made clear by President Trump is that he is content to stay in the status of limbo”, Hanna added, despite concerns from much of the American public that the Iran-conflict" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="44272" data-entity-type="event">Iran conflict is turning into another “never-ending war”.The Strait of Hormuz, a waterway key to the world’s oil supply, is central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which is at an impasse after nearly seven months, though new mediation efforts took place this week.