Qatar is advancing a mediation package that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz in stages if Iran allows United Nations nuclear inspectors back into facilities damaged in the war with the United States.

Under the draft outline described in public briefings, Tehran would not have to ship its highly enriched uranium abroad. Options on the table include visits by International Atomic Energy Agency teams to bombed sites and measures such as down blending to lower enrichment levels, building on an earlier understanding once discussed in Cairo.

In return, the United States would lift its naval blockade on Iran in the strait and release a portion of roughly eight billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets. Iran would open a negotiated shipping lane on the second day of implementation, using a route already discussed with Oman and intended for registration with the International Maritime Organisation.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, the emir of Qatar, spoke with President Donald Trump about the proposal on Friday. His office stressed continued dialogue and diplomacy to prevent further regional escalation without publishing the call’s details.

Tehran has set further conditions for a lasting reopening, including an end to fighting in Lebanon, a pullback of United States forces from Iran’s coastline, steps to ease economic sanctions and talk of war reparations. Sequencing those steps remains the core dispute in the talks.

Iranian officials have sounded wary of inspectors after the midterm shock in Washington, arguing that past monitoring failed to constrain strikes on nuclear sites and could feed targeting data. Oman’s foreign minister has continued contacts on how any temporary strait arrangement would work under the law of the sea, with fees limited to services rather than tolls.

Trump is still weighing another assault on Iranian nuclear sites, though Vice President JD Vance’s comments linking the war itself to Republican midterm losses have weakened the force of those threats inside Iran. A reconstruction fund figure near three hundred billion dollars has also circulated in mediation papers without a clear funding path.

Limited exemptions already allow some Chinese, Indian, Qatari and Iraqi shipping through the waterway, according to Iranian parliamentary comments, underscoring how incomplete any blockade has been while diplomacy continues.