Al Arabiya Sources: New Qatar-Pakistan Plan Would Let Iran Keep Enriching Uranium at 3.67% at Home, Free $6 Billion to $9 Billion in Frozen Assets, Bring Back IAEA Inspectors, Lift the U.S. Naval Blockade and Reopen Hormuz; Neither Washington Nor Tehran Has Confirmed
A new Qatar-Pakistan plan to end the standoff with Iran would let Tehran keep enriching uranium inside Iran at 3.67 percent, free between $6 billion and $9 billion in frozen Iranian assets, bring international inspectors back into the country, lift the U.S. naval blockade and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to sources who spoke to Al Arabiya. Neither Washington nor Tehran has officially confirmed the plan.
The sources said the framework would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift the American naval blockade on Iran's ports immediately. On the nuclear file, the plan points to a preliminary agreement to lower Iran's enrichment: Washington has demanded the level of Iran's 60 percent enriched uranium be brought down, and the two sides have discussed using a third country to help reduce Iran's highly enriched stockpile. Washington, the sources said, allowed enrichment inside Iran at 3.67 percent — and Tehran agreed to it.
The proposal also includes arrangements to discuss the return of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to Iran, though the scope of their work was not spelled out, and an American release of Iranian assets worth between $6 billion and $9 billion if an agreement is reached.
Tehran's public reaction has been hard-line. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, posted on X at dawn Tuesday accusing Washington of manufacturing the reports: "The war on Iran has already wrecked the US government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler. FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER. Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out." Al Arabiya reported that among those seven conditions are stopping the war on all fronts, lifting the blockade on Iran's ports, and releasing its frozen assets abroad. President Masoud Pezeshkian said a day earlier that Iran seeks dialogue and will not surrender in the face of force.
The reported plan comes as Qatar's Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has been working to bring the two sides closer — he met President Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on Monday, and Trump has said Tehran wants an agreement even if it does not admit that publicly. The White House, in its own post on the Qatar meeting, said Trump delivered an update on the naval blockade against Iran and that "at the conclusion of the military engagement, the American people and the people of the world will be far safer."
For Americans, what is on the table matters directly: reopening Hormuz and lifting the blockade would let oil and gas flow freely again and hold energy prices down, while the 3.67 percent cap is the line Washington has long used for civilian nuclear work — far below the 60 percent level Iran has reached, which is much closer to weapons grade. Whether the plan survives Tehran's public denials is now the question.
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