Iran handed US envoys a 60-day ceasefire road map in New York Sep 23 — phased Hormuz…

UNGA’s High-Level Week produced its most concrete Iran movement yet. Hours after President Pezeshkian told the General Assembly that Iran seeks nuclear technology ‘for progress, not to threaten societies’ and would ‘not bow’ to Trump’s ‘wipe out’ threat, Iranian officials handed US envoys Witkoff and Kushner a detailed road map in New York proposing up to 60 days of regionwide ceasefire, a phased reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a full lift of US sanctions and a halt to strikes on Iran’s Arab neighbors, mediated by Qatar, Pakistan and Egypt. Trump rejected immediate sanctions relief, insisting Iran first show ‘sufficient goodwill’ before any blockade lift, though a second round of talks was expected later the same day and a follow-up meeting in Oman is possible later this month — The National, Business Recorder. EU foreign-policy chief Kaja Kallas separately met FM Araghchi and said transit through Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab must be ‘free and unimpeded’ and toll-free once the war ends. In Ukraine, Russia followed Sep 22’s deadly four-city barrage with a smaller overnight strike Sep 22–23 — 161 drones, 119 intercepted — hitting Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Izium and Poltava; Ukraine’s General Staff put cumulative Russian losses at 1,522,440 (+1,560), with 12,367 tanks, 50,216 artillery systems and 530,560 drones destroyed. Zelensky continues his roughly 20 planned UNGA meetings in New York.