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Iran Mulls US Proposal to End War as China Calls for Peace

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Oil sank as Iran weighed a fresh US peace proposal that may offer Donald Trump an off-ramp from a conflict that has spiked energy prices and hurt his political standing. The deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift the American naval blockade, a person familiar said. Nuclear talks would come later.