Iran offers a seven-day Hormuz plan as reports point to Trump’s rejection

Tehran promotes its proposal

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s offer to reopen Hormuz within seven days was reported by AFP and relayed by Faytuks Network. Pleitgen also described Araghchi setting out a seven-day timeframe for a return to diplomacy, while President Masoud Pezeshkian discussed Iran’s proposal for full negotiations in a CBS interview. Neither account establishes that Washington accepted the plan or that a reopening had begun. Araghchi’s offer · Pezeshkian interview

The reported American response was markedly less encouraging. Steve Lookner quoted the Wall Street Journal as saying, on the authority of U.S. officials, that Trump rejected a seven-day ceasefire and told aides he expected to resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections. Pleitgen stressed the absence of an official White House statement. The reported expectation is not an announced operational timetable. WSJ, via Lookner · Pleitgen’s qualification

Earlier, an informed source speaking to IRGC-affiliated Fars denied reports of another round of Iran–U.S. negotiations and rejected a claim that Iranian technical experts had gone to New York. Faytuks Network relayed the source’s allegation that those reports were designed to manage oil prices. That denial concerns reported talks; it does not, by itself, disprove the later public description of an Iranian proposal. Fars account

A strained shipping route, not an empty one

Maritime commentator Sal Mercogliano described continuing damage to commercial shipping, sharply higher tanker costs and pressure on fuel supplies. In an outline of his latest discussion, he said traffic through Hormuz remained roughly 75 percent below pre-conflict levels and that very large crude carrier rates on Persian Gulf–China routes had exceeded $1.2 million a day. He also discussed a strike on the MV Cape Dao and crew casualties, without giving a casualty count in the post. Those are his stated assessments, rather than independently checked shipping figures. Mercogliano’s account

A separate Rory Johnston post, shared by Mercogliano, described more than 13.5 million barrels a day clearing Hormuz on a seven-day moving average. The excerpt ends before its qualification is complete. An oil-volume estimate and a measure of overall traffic are not interchangeable, so these posts do not establish either a full recovery or a complete halt to shipping. Oil-flow estimate

Tanker seizures remained another source of pressure. TankerTrackers shared a gCaptain report that seized Iranian oil tankers were heading towards the United States with cargo valued at $600 million. The short post does not identify the vessels or set out the legal basis for their seizure. Tanker report

Saudi defences report an interception near Riyadh

A coalition spokesperson said air defences intercepted and destroyed two drones launched by the Houthis towards the Riyadh region. The Arabic-language statement, shared by Lookner, did not report casualties or damage. It adds a concrete military claim to a morning otherwise dominated by diplomacy and maritime disruption. Coalition statement

There was also a report of a revision to U.S. wartime casualty figures. Jim Sciutto shared a Washington Post item saying the Pentagon’s public count of troops wounded during the Iran war had increased by 37. The excerpt supplies neither the revised total nor the explanation for the increase, and cannot establish when those injuries occurred. Washington Post, via Sciutto