Financial Times: Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday in a last-ditch effort to broker an interim deal between Iran and the Trump administration before next week’s US midterm elections and to prevent an intense new round of war.
…Under the proposal, Iran would allow shipping to move freely through the Strait of Hormuz if the US lifts its blockade on Iranian ports, allows Tehran to export oil and grants it access to some of its frozen assets held overseas.
The parties would then restart negotiations on a final deal. But there have been few signs of progress as Washington and Tehran, which harbour deep distrust of each other, haggle over the sequencing and the fate of Iran’s 440kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium…