Iran reply, Qatar mediation Iraq exit draws mixed views

Sep 29–30

DD India reports Iran receiving Washington's response to its latest ceasefire proposal and says the foreign minister presented the proposal to President Masoud Pezeshkian. Reports suggest broad agreement on steps but disagreement over sequencing; no settlement is reported. Majed Al Ansari says Qatar continues meetings and message exchanges, including contacts in New York, seeks common ground and supports Pakistani mediation. Trump says Iran is doing poorly and will eventually give up, without a timetable, and claims historically high oil transit through Hormuz while repeating his nuclear-weapons objective. The package reports remaining U.S. forces leaving Iraq, with targeted training and intelligence support continuing. Baghdad resident Ahmed Saleh welcomes the departure as an end to occupation; Erbil resident Azad Hassan fears an ISIS return and distrusts the authorities. The closing retains uncertainty about ceasefire sequencing and Iraqi security. The forecasts and oil-flow claims are attributed.

Oman TV cites media sources saying Abbas Araghchi received Washington's response in Doha and conveyed it to Masoud Pezeshkian on returning to Tehran. Disagreement remains over which confidence-building steps come first. Al Sharq editor Jaber Al Harmi describes the U.S. demand for reopening Hormuz before relief and Iran's demand for port-blockade and frozen-asset relief first, discussing Qatari proposals for simultaneous steps and regional mediation. He advocates diplomacy but cautions that seven days would be difficult and only begin confidence building. No accepted agreement or reopened strait is established. DD India's September 30 package likewise reports receipt of Washington's response, while saying the foreign minister presented the proposal to Pezeshkian. It says reports suggest broad agreement on steps but continued disagreement over their order, retaining uncertainty in its closing. This compatible update supplies no accepted terms or implemented ceasefire. In Oman TV's October 5 live discussion, Tehran correspondent Mohammad Javad says Iran is still studying the U.S. response received through Qatar to its seven-day plan. He describes Washington's focus on nuclear questions versus Tehran's demand for an end on all fronts, Hormuz conditions and return to the Islamabad memorandum before nuclear talks. This is a later assessment of the reported response and unresolved process; the passage does not establish that a distinct new reply has arrived or that either side accepted terms. In IRNA's October 4 recording, Baghaei recalls conveying Iranian positions to the mediator during a brief Doha stop on the return journey. He says the U.S. proposals largely repeat earlier positions specifically on nuclear matters, and that positions conveyed through the Qatari mediator were addressed at the same meeting. Some details still require review and supplementary Iranian points will be sent. This supplies a direct Iranian account of the relay without proving agreement on terms or sequencing or dating the stop more precisely. His current Hormuz/security and sanctions requirements form a separately indexed October 4 public statement.