United States’ response to Iran’s seven-day peace plan was formally delivered to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday may include resequencing of the original plan.Earlier, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani stated that foreign minister Abbas Araghchi was informed of the response through Qatari mediators, IRNA news agency reported.The proposal was delivered to Pezeshkian during a cabinet meeting in Iran. No details of the US response were publicised.Mohajerani said the US failed to isolate Iran politically, stating that numerous meetings were held with European, Arab and other countries.“Despite the enemy’s attempts to isolate Iran politically, the Iranian delegation’s presence in New York was a major focus of attention”, Mohajerani said, adding that diplomatic efforts were “being pursued diligently” to find solutions to the crisis.Last week, US President Donald Trump had rejected the peace proposal and told aides he could resume bombing Iran after the November midterms. WSJ reported.On Sunday, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, said that the US rejected the proposal to reopen Hormuz because Tehran was looking for sanctions relief and access to “billions in frozen assets” before talks on its nuclear programme.“They were asking for everything up front, with a promise that they would then talk,” Waltz told CNN.Waltz called Iran’s proposal “a pretty cynical attempt to put something on the table that they knew was unacceptable”, as he spoke to the NBC News.
Change in the proposed sequence?
While the details of the American haven’t been publicised yet, experts told Al Jazeera that the response could include altering the timeline of the original seven-day plan.Lucciano Zaccara, an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, said it means the United States does not dispute “what they are going to discuss, but how they are going to implement the sequence of the aspects of this agreement”.“I think both sides are trying to get out of this war, saving face at the same time”, he said.
