U.S President Donald Trump dismissed Iran’s peace plan to end the ongoing conflict between the two countries, calling the proposal “totally unacceptable”.
Trump reacted to Tehran’s renewed conditions through a post on his Truth Social.
He wrote, “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”
The Trump administration has been under mounting domestic and international pressure to end the two-month war in West Asia.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Tehran had laid out terms to have a portion of its enriched uranium diluted, and the rest transferred to a third country. The Islamic Republic also demanded a guarantee that the transferred uranium would be returned if negotiations failed or the United States stray away from the agreement. The WSJ’s sources said Iran delivered the counterproposal through mediator Pakistan.
The American President spoke to journalist Sharyl Attkisson, claiming the United States was “closely monitoring” Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and threated to “blow them up” if anyone approached the site.
“We’ll get that at some point. Whenever we want. We have it surveilled. I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching that… If anybody got near the place, we will know about it — and we’ll blow them up,” he said, adding “If somebody walked in, they (Space Force) can tell you his name, address, his badge number.”
Iran responded to Trump’s comments, warning him of retaliation against new U.S strikes or deployment of foreign warships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state television listed Tehran’s strict conditions of “war reparations by the US, full Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, an end to sanctions, and the release of seized Iranian assets” in its peace proposal.
According to the reports of state broadcaster IRIB, Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei “issued new and decisive directives for the continuation of operations and the powerful confrontation with the enemies” in a meeting with the head of the joint military command.
