Aya Batraoui

Iranian media report there are various interim proposals being discussed in Tehran, including one backed by China.

The key issue is Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war three months ago.

Iran established a new authority to approve and collect tolls from ships that want to transit the strategic waterway.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters a toll system can't happen.

The Trump administration wants Iran to store its enriched uranium abroad and pause its nuclear program.

Iran has signaled those are red lines and insists on a permanent ceasefire that lifts U.S.

sanctions.

Aya Baltarawi, NPR News, Dubai.

They have borne the brunt of Iran's counterattacks in this war, and countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to see this war end.

But Trump has also been speaking regularly with Israel's prime minister, and just this week they had a tense and contentious call.

A person familiar with the matter, not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR Benjamin Netanyahu railed against a deal to end the war, and that Trump told him he would continue to pursue a deal that prevents Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but that Iran needs to show flexibility.

So there are new demands that didn't exist before this war.

And those include, for example, an end to Israel's war on the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel controls a huge part of the south of Lebanon and where people are being killed daily in Lebanon.

And also some of these demands now include war reparations, a total lifting of a U.S.

naval blockade out at sea that's keeping Iran from freely being able to export its oil.

Kuwait's Interior Ministry says a group of six men landed on its Bubian Island on May 1st with a rented fishing boat to, quote, carry out a mission that included hostile acts against the state of Kuwait.

It named all six and listed their rank in Iran's navy.

The statement says Kuwaiti forces exchanged fire with the group and that a member of Kuwait's armed forces was wounded in the clashes.

Kuwait says two of the men fled, while the other four were arrested and confessed during interrogation to belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Iran has attacked Gulf Arab states with missiles and drones throughout the U.S.-Israeli war on it.