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

https://mins.news/en/video/75615

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-27 00:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwuTIfQ5Ww

> Ross Harrison, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy, says Iran probably expected President Donald Trump to reject its seven-day proposal. He argues that the plan largely repackaged a framework Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed in a June memorandum of understanding that Washington later tried to undermine. Iran’s aim, Harrison says, was less to win US approval than to show Iranian and American publics that it was willing to negotiate.

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