Iran says conveyed positions regarding U.S. response to proposed plan through Qatar -Xinhua
TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Sunday the country has conveyed its positions through the Qatari mediator regarding the U.S. response to its proposed plan to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran conveyed a proposed seven-day plan to the United States on Sept. 22 to cease hostilities and reopen the waterway to the United States, through mediators on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. "We conveyed our positions to the mediator during the brief stopover we made in Doha on our way back (from New York)," Baghaei said at a weekly press conference in Tehran. "The Americans' proposals are more or less in line with their previous positions, and specifically concern the nuclear issue...