Iran Says It Is Discussing a Plan With Mediators to End the War and Reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Gulf News reported on 28 October that Tehran is discussing a plan with mediators. Officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian two days earlier.
Iran says it is discussing a plan with mediators to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to Gulf News live coverage on 28 October. The same coverage carried a statement from a senior United Arab Emirates official urging restraint, and a report that Iran said Qatar had offered no new proposal.
On 26 October, officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran and agreed to keep talking. Pakistan has been a central mediator throughout the conflict: it brokered the April ceasefire and hosted the Islamabad Talks.
The diplomatic track runs alongside heavy pressure. The United States continues to enforce its naval blockade of Iranian ports, and a separate report on 28 October described Iranian voices as split over the talks. Tehran has set out its own conditions for any negotiation with Washington, and says the United States is not serious about talks.
The mediation effort matters beyond the region: the Strait of Hormuz carries roughly one-fifth of the world's oil and gas in peacetime, and its closure has been a major driver of the price surge in global fuel markets this year.