Iran has proposed transferring its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent to a third party as part of its latest plan to break the diplomatic deadlock with the US, sources familiar with Tehran's position told The National.On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that his country conveyed to the US through Qatar a concrete seven-day plan aimed at resolving the stand-off over the Strait of Hormuz, with the waterway expected to reopen on the sixth day if the agreed steps are implemented.The seven-day timetable would begin as soon as Washington accepts the plan, he said at the UN. “If the necessary conditions are met, the strait could be reopened," adding that “the choice now is with the US”.The proposal, one source said, envisages a phased process in which the stockpile would first be diluted before being transferred out of Iran under mechanisms recognised by the International Atomic Energy Agency.The third-party transfer goes beyond Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's public comments this week that Tehran was prepared to dilute its 60 per cent enriched uranium and submit the process to verification.The mechanism revives and expands an idea discussed during earlier negotiations mediated by Oman and, the source said, shortly before the war began on February 28.The offer forms part of a broader Iranian road map presented to Washington in New York that seeks to...
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