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Javad Zarif, the former Iranian foreign minister, has proposed a peace plan in an article in the US publication Foreign Affairs.

Zarif, a professor at the University of Tehran who also served as vice-president, suggested Iran should “declare victory and make a deal that both ends this conflict and prevents the next one”.

Iran commit to never seeking nuclear weapons and “down-blend” its stock of enriched uranium below 3.67%, the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal Donald Trump pulled the US out of in 2018.

To include China and Russia in any deal to establish a single uranium enrichment site for the region, where Iran “would transfer all its enriched material and equipment to that space”.

The US and allies drop all sanctions against Iran and allow the country to fully participate in the global economy.

Reopen the strait of Hormuz, but the US must allow Tehran to use the key shipping route too.

Iran and the US sign a nonagression pact “in which both countries pledge to not strike each other in the future”.