Trump earlier rejected the proposal when speaking to the press, but Iran had been awaiting an official response via Qatari mediators.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the U.S. response to President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, a government spokesperson told the state-run IRNA news agency.

Iranian officials say they have received an official U.S. response to Tehran's own proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S. President Donald Trump rejected days earlier.

Iran threatened to attack energy infrastructure across the Middle East if its security isn't guaranteed as it ratcheted up its rhetoric while waiting for the United States to officially respond to a plan Tehran says would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.