Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days remains available to the United States.
Mr Araghchi said that if the US met Iran's conditions, the strait would reopen on the sixth day and negotiations would resume on the seventh, according to CBS News and Xinhua.
Xinhua quoted him as saying: "Iran's plan is still on the table." Reuters, in a report from Dubai, said he made the remarks to Iranian media outlets.
The reports differ on which agency carried the comments. CBS News said he spoke to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, while Xinhua said he spoke to the official news agency IRNA.
According to CBS News, the plan calls for an end to the US naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil, and a ceasefire on all fronts. The full list of seven conditions was not available.
Gulf News gave a similar list: lifting the blockade of Iranian ports, removing sanctions on oil exports, and ending hostilities on all regional fronts. It said the offer was a conditional Iranian proposal, not an agreed reopening date.
Mr Araghchi said the US had shared comments on the proposal and that Iran was reviewing them. Xinhua said he spoke on the sidelines of the 52nd Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baghdad.
Xinhua reported that he described the conditions as completely clear and said they were the same commitments the US had made in a peace memorandum of understanding. It also reported that he said Iran would not bow to threats and remained ready for diplomacy.
No response from the US government to his latest statement had been reported. The claim that the conditions match earlier US commitments comes from the Iranian side only.
Reuters reported that US Vice President JD Vance said earlier in October that Iran must make a "meaningful" reduction in its uranium enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the eight-month war.
Reuters said Iran presented its seven-day plan in mid-September, after an interim ceasefire collapsed. It said Iran's security chief, who was not named in the report extracts, said the previous week that negotiations had stalled because Washington had not addressed all seven conditions.
Xinhua said the two countries had been scheduled to hold negotiations within 60 days under a peace memorandum of understanding, which ended on 17 August. The aim was to reach a final agreement on Iran's nuclear programme and the removal of sanctions. Xinhua said the sides failed to make sufficient progress.
The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic shipping route. CBS News refers to an American naval blockade of Iranian ports, and the conditions Iran has set include sanctions relief on its oil exports.
Iran says it is reviewing the US comments and that the strait could reopen within days if its conditions are met. The US position, as reported by Reuters, is that Iran must reduce its enrichment capacity. No date for new talks had been set.
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