“Iran’s counterproposal is unacceptable,” Donald Trump told Israel’s Channel 12 today, stressing that he rejects it.
According to journalist Nathan Gutman, US President Donald Trump said: “Iran’s latest proposal to resolve the regional conflict is unacceptable.”It is not acceptable to me. It is not acceptable to me. I have studied it all. The proposal is not acceptable,” Guttman is quoted as saying Trump said in a brief phone conversation, in a post on X.
In further comments carried by the Kan network in Hebrew, he said that “the Iranians want to make a deal, but I am not satisfied with what they have offered,” adding that “there are things I can’t agree with.”
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump, speaking on Israel’s Channel 12, again addressed the issue of pardoning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “He is a prime minister of a time of war. The Israel would not exist if it weren’t for me and Bibi, in that order, you need a prime minister who can focus on war and not on nonsense,” he said.
Note that as early as Friday Donald Trump had indicated that he would not easily accept Tehran’s proposals. “The Iranians want to make a deal, but I’m not happy with what they offered,” he had told reporters about what the Iranians had proposed.
Tehran announced today that the US had responded to the 14-point Iranian proposal, submitted through the mediator (i.e. Pakistan), and the Iranian side is considering Washington’s response, state media reported.
“At this stage, we are not conducting negotiations on the nuclear program,” an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to state media.
Earlier, it was reported that Tehran submitted a 14-point response to a similar US proposal to end the war through a Pakistani mediator.
The Iranian proposal responds to Washington’s nine-point draft and focuses on a complete end (rather than a “freeze”) of hostilities, rejecting the US proposal for a two-month ceasefire and calling for a resolution of key issues within 30 days. Tehran stresses that the priority should be ending the war, not extending a temporary truce.
