Trump says he has rejected Iranian proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Trump made the comments as he boarded Marine One on the White House lawn. He framed Iran's request as a sign of weakness.

"I rejected their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they're losing so badly," Trump told reporters. He added that Iran wanted the strait open "immediately" because, in his words, they're "dying."

The Strait of Hormuz sits at the center of global oil shipping routes. Any disruption there ripples through energy markets worldwide. Iranian officials had indicated shipping through the strait could resume within days if the two sides reached an agreement, according to the report. Trump's rejection means that path stays closed for now, leaving the standoff between Washington and Tehran unresolved even as diplomats talked face to face in New York this week.

Neither side has detailed what a future deal might require. Trump's public framing of the talks, as Iran "losing so badly," raises the question of how close the two countries actually got to an agreement before he walked away from it.