美國中央司令部發言人：伊朗並不控制霍爾木茲海峽。

Axios reported a U.S. official said U.S. special envoy Witkoff is en route to Switzerland and that Kushner is already there. People familiar said Iran foreign minister Araghchi plans to travel to Switzerland on Saturday but the plan could change. Araghchi told several foreign ministers a Lebanon ceasefire is vital to Iran and decisive for U.S.-Iran talks; Iran wants to see a ceasefire implemented before traveling. The source said negotiations therefore may not begin before Monday, though the timetable remains tentative.

The Wall Street Journal reports the US and Qatar are drafting a plan to let Iran access part of roughly $100bn in frozen cash, starting with a $6bn tranche held by Qatar for humanitarian purchases. The proposal, not final, would allow Iran’s central bank to use extracted frozen assets—chiefly oil-export proceeds held abroad—to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods; the mechanism could be a template for other frozen cash pools and could serve as the first disbursement toward about $24bn Tehran is seeking to unfreeze under a recently signed end-of-war agreement.