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Iran Offers to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz Within Seven Days as US Talks Resume

Tehran has floated conditions for restoring traffic through the chokepoint, and oil fell as American and Iranian officials completed a round of indirect talks at the United Nations.

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What happened

Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States takes initial steps to ease its military pressure firstpost.comnewsnationnow.com. Iranian officials called President Trump's threats a sign of strategic desperation while floating conditions for a reopening cnbc.com. Tehran's proposal could pave the way for restoring traffic through the strait, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic off-ramp cnbc.com.

The offer came alongside the first shuttle talks between the two sides in months reuters.com. Trump said US officials met for three hours with the Iranian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attending from the American side and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi from the Iranian side axios.com. Iranian state television said the meeting was requested by the United States and driven by the need to convey Iran's conditions for reopening the strait axios.com. Witkoff said the talks were held indirectly, through mediators shuttling between delegations, and that a round had been completed investinglive.combbc.com.

Why it matters to investors

The strait is the conduit for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas, on the measure used before the war reuters.com. Traffic through the corridor, which once carried more than 20 per cent of the world's oil trade, has collapsed by about 95 per cent thenationalnews.com. Trump's energy adviser has said Gulf producers must build new routes to bypass it thenationalnews.com.

Prices moved on the diplomacy. Oil fell below 99 dollars as the US and Iran talks and a Saudi pipeline revival eased supply fears newswav.com. Crude also eased after Witkoff confirmed a completed round of indirect talks investinglive.com.

What to watch

Vessel counts are the cleanest real-time test of whether anything has changed. Three commodity vessels transited the strait on Tuesday, down from four a day earlier and below the 10-day moving average of about 15 reuters.com. A reopening would have to show up there before it shows up in inventories.

The precedent is not encouraging: an earlier deal unravelled within weeks over shipping rules in the strait reuters.com. Watch whether the indirect format becomes direct, since the current round ran through mediators rather than face to face investinglive.combbc.com. Watch the specific conditions Tehran attaches, which state media tied to easing American pressure axios.comfirstpost.com. And watch the bypass-route push from Washington, which assumes the chokepoint stays unreliable regardless of this round thenationalnews.com.

Sources

  1. newsnationnow.com: Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz within days amid UN talks - NewsNation (2026-09-23)
  2. cnbc.com: Iran says Trump's threats a sign of 'strategic desperation,' floats conditions for Hormuz reopening (2026-09-23)
  3. firstpost.com: Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz within 7 days, oil prices crash - Firstpost (2026-09-23)
  4. reuters.com: Hope for progress after US, Iran hold first shuttle talks in months | Reuters (2026-09-23)
  5. reuters.com: Shipping traffic via Strait of Hormuz stays below 10-day average, data shows | Reuters (2026-09-23)
  6. thenationalnews.com: Trump's energy adviser says Gulf must build new oil routes to bypass Strait of Hormuz (2026-09-23)
  7. newswav.com: Oil falls below US$99 as US-Iran talks, Saudi pipeline revival ease supply fears - Newswav (2026-09-23)
  8. bbc.com: US and Iran hold first talks since June after Trump's 'annihilation' threat - BBC (2026-09-23)
  9. investinglive.com: Oil eases as Witkoff says indirect US-Iran talks at UN complete a round - investingLive (2026-09-23)
  10. axios.com: U.S. and Iran officials meet in New York to discuss ending the war (2026-09-22)