Why Trump rejected Iran's seven-day Hormuz proposal: Analysis

Ross Harrison, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of Decoding Iran's Foreign Policy, says Iran likely expected President Donald Trump to reject its seven-day proposal, since it largely repackages the framework agreed by Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron in a June memorandum of understanding that Washington later tried to undermine. Harrison says Iran's goal was less about winning US approval than showing its own public, and the American public, a willingness to negotiate. He sees a possible concession in language suggesting the Strait of Hormuz could reopen without…

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