Pakistan, Sept. 27 -- Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said on Friday, but US President Donald Trump said he rejected the proposal.

The waterway, key to the world's oil supply, is central to the conflict between the United States and Iran, which is at a stalemate after nearly seven months. But new mediation efforts at the UN's gathering of world leaders in New York this week offered some optimism of progress toward a deal.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met for talks on Tuesday with Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, and previously set out conditions for ending the war and reopening the vital shipping channel.

"Iran has conveyed to the United States, through Qatar, a concrete seven-day plan. If the...