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On Friday, a tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile while leaving the Strait of Hormuz, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency. The impact caused a small fire and a loss of electrical power aboard the vessel. The fire was later extinguished, and the tanker continued its voyage. The report did not identify the ship, the attacker, or the precise point in the strait, so the incident’s location and responsibility remain unspecified.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not avoid talks with the United States as Tehran considered Washington’s response to its latest proposal for reviving a ceasefire arrangement. Pezeshkian said Iran had not previously avoided negotiations and would not do so now, while criticizing previous US military actions against his country. His remarks came amid indirect diplomatic contacts concerning a proposal linking cessation of hostilities and sanctions-related measures with reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear negotiations.

Tehran announced that it had received the US response to an Iranian proposal aimed at halting the conflict and reopening the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if an agreement is reached. According to a source cited in the report, Qatari mediators presented the response to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during his stop in Doha. The source said the sides broadly agreed on the steps required but continued to disagree over the sequence in which those measures should be implemented.

The United States announced sanctions on Tuesday on 13 individuals and entities, some based in Russia, China, Hong Kong and Pakistan, accused of helping Iran obtain weapons and components. The Treasury and State departments announced the move, described as part of the Trump administration's campaign to squeeze Iran's economy and push it toward negotiations to end the war that began in February with US and Israeli attacks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would keep tracking and isolating such enablers.

An unnamed Iranian official told Sky News Arabia that Araghchi met Qatari mediators in Doha on Tuesday evening and received the US response to a seven-day confidence-building plan. Araghchi was to discuss it in Tehran on Wednesday. The official said the main dispute concerns the sequencing of the plan's steps, which aims to return to an enhanced version of a June memorandum of understanding between Washington and Iran. Trump said Tuesday that Iran would eventually surrender.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Qatari mediators in Doha on Tuesday evening and received the United States response regarding a seven-day confidence-building plan aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and halting hostilities. The primary point of contention involves the sequencing of steps in the plan, which seeks to return to an enhanced version of a June memorandum of understanding. Araghchi stated he would discuss the response in Tehran on Wednesday, while US President Donald Trump maintained that Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons and asserted that the conflict would end soon.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations disputed reports that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the Iranian delegation to leave New York. The mission said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s delegation departed Monday evening according to a schedule communicated to the U.S. State Department on September 17. Axios, citing a U.S. official and another informed source, reported instead that Rubio ordered the delegation to leave immediately after negotiations between Washington and Tehran reached an impasse.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian reporters in New York on Monday that Iran had conveyed a seven-point plan on conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz to the United States through Qatari mediators. He said he met a Qatari mediator again that day and expected an official US reply, possibly Tuesday. He strongly denied reports of Iranian flexibility on its nuclear file, saying current talks concern only Hormuz. His remarks were carried by IRNA, via CNN Arabic.

Iranian officials said an aircraft traveling toward Dushanbe, Tajikistan, was forced to turn back after Turkmenistan refused permission for it to cross Turkmen airspace. The incident reportedly occurred during the previous week amid broader disruption affecting Iranian aviation following tighter United States sanctions. The supplied article does not identify the airline, flight number or exact day of the incident. It therefore provides evidence of the airspace denial but does not support assigning a precise event date or exact geographic coordinates.

New United States sanctions covering Iran’s air transport sector severely disrupted international air travel, according to the supplied report. Iranian passengers with bookings to regional destinations including Iraq, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates and Oman faced cancellations after the measures took effect. The UAE, Georgia and Azerbaijan officially suspended flights, while a Tehran travel agent reported that services to Baghdad, Muscat and Qatar had also stopped. Some remaining flights to Türkiye continued, but seats were scarce and passengers faced a high risk of cancellation.

Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran had developed substantial military capabilities and deterrence, claiming its adversaries were being kept beyond the Arabian Sea because of Iranian strikes. In a statement marking Sacred Defense Week and the anniversary of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination, Khamenei said Iran had become stronger through two recent wars and external pressure. He also identified maintaining Iran’s position regarding the Strait of Hormuz among positions supported by Iranian society. These assertions represent Khamenei’s own assessment.

According to Sky News Arabia, US President Donald Trump rejected Iran's proposal on Saturday. The proposal, raised at the UN General Assembly the previous week, would start a seven-day countdown to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war. Araghchi said the next day that Washington had not formally communicated its rejection through mediators. Trump has repeatedly said Iran must not obtain a nuclear weapon and that the war will end soon.