Iran engaged with the United States through a Qatari mediator in New York and conveyed conditions including an end to the war on all fronts and a halt to what Tehran called US "acts of aggression," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told state news agency IRNA.
Baghaei said Iran's conditions also included an end to the naval blockade and economic warfare, and the release of Iranian assets, IRNA reported.
Shipping traffic via Strait of Hormuz stays below 10-day average, data shows
Three commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, down from four a day earlier and below the 10-day moving average of about 15, preliminary shipping data showed on Wednesday.
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The figures may change as some ships typically switch off their transponders during the voyage.
All three vessels, including one Panamax tanker, were exiting the strait, the data from ship tracker Kpler showed at 0700 PKT.
One ballast liquefied natural gas tanker, Al Mafyar, however, reappeared inside the strait on Tuesday, after being last seen outside of the waterway on September 19, according to both Kpler and LSEG data.
The Strait of Hormuz carried a fifth of the world's oil and gas before the US-Iran conflict.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he could annihilate Iran if there is no deal to end the war, but also suggested an agreement could come soon amid a diplomatic push at the United Nations.
Meanwhile, 22 commodity vessels transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, another maritime chokepoint on the southwest tip of Yemen and a vital trade route for oil between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The data showed 14 vessels heading towards the Red Sea and 8 towards the Gulf of Aden. They included five Panamax tankers, six Supramax vessels, four Aframax tankers, a Suezmax tanker and a very large crude carrier.
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The number is compared with an average of around 26 ships using the strait in the past 10 days.
Explosion heard near Iran's Qeshm Island in Strait of Hormuz
An explosion was heard near Qeshm Island in southern Iran's Hormozgan province, state media reported.
The official news agency IRNA said the noise originated from the direction of the sea rather than land.
The agency said that no rockets or missiles struck the island, while local authorities have not issued a formal statement explaining the exact source or nature of the blast.
Qeshm Island, situated within the strategic Strait of Hormuz, is the largest island in the Gulf.
The incident coincides with persistent maritime and military friction in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital energy transit chokepoint that has served as a central theatre throughout the Iran war.
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