{"id":7090,"date":"2026-05-23T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:17:00","slug":"trump-50-50-chance-of-a-deal-or-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7090","title":{"rendered":"Trump: 50-50 chance of a deal or war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-50 chance of a deal or war with <b>Iran<\/b>. That&#8217;s what <b>Donald Trump <\/b>is leaking while still keeping his cards close to his chest. <\/p>\n<p>In Washington, D.C., where he is, <b>US President Donald Trump<\/b> is meeting with his negotiating team in Washington on whether to go to deal or war with <b>Iran<\/b>. &#8220;<b>I think one of two things will happen: either I&#8217;ll hit them harder than they&#8217;ve ever been hit, or we&#8217;ll sign a good deal<\/b>,&#8221; Donald Trump told the Axios news network. <\/p>\n<p>He said earlier today that he would meet with his negotiators, <b>Stiv Whitcoff<\/b> and <b>Jarrett Kushner<\/b>, and U.S. Vice President <b>J.D. Vance<\/b> later in the day to discuss Iran&#8217;s latest proposal. He also said he <b>probably will decide by Sunday whether to restart the war.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>What Iran and Pakistan discussed<\/h3>\n<p>However, Iran is preparing its new negotiating proposal, which will be sent to the US via <b>Pakistan<\/b>. Earlier today, Pakistan Army Chief, <b>Asim Munir<\/b> was in Tehran for negotiations with senior Iranian government officials. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, <b>Mohammad Bayr Galibaf<\/b> asserted to the US: &#8220;<b>We will not compromise on the rights of our people with a party that is neither honest nor trustworthy<\/b>.&#8221; &#8220;Just as we defended our country in battle, we seek to safeguard our rights through diplomacy,&#8221; <b>Mohammad Bayr Galibaf<\/b> stressed to conclude: &#8220;If Trump commits a folly and returns to war, our response will be fiercer and more destructive.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>In the same vein, Fida Hossein Maleki, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the Shura Council, said: &#8220;<b>The Iranian and Pakistani sides agreed that these challenges and the situation of uncertainty are coming from the United States<\/b>.&#8221; &#8220;In this meeting it was confirmed that the Americans have accepted many issues, but there are still stages ahead that will be made clear in the next meetings,&#8221; Fida Hossein Maleki stressed. <\/p>\n<h3>Non-negotiable nuclear program<\/h3>\n<p>In any case, for Iran, the <b>nuclear issue<\/b> is non-negotiable. Iran has announced that it will not participate in negotiations on the nuclear issue during this period. &#8220;<b>Discussions on nuclear issues will be held in the next round only if the opposing side implements confidence-building measures<\/b>,&#8221; Tehran conveyed in its message.  <\/p>\n<h3>Iran: There is a trend towards rapprochement with the US<\/h3>\n<p>With the conclusion of the Iran-Pakistan consultations, Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir was quick to say that &#8220;encouraging progress has been made towards a final understanding&#8221;. For his part, Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Bakaee told state-run Irib television network, &#8220;After several weeks of bilateral negotiations, we are seeing a trend of rapprochement.&#8221; He referred to a 14-point plan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we are in the phase of finalizing these memoranda of understanding,&#8221; Esmail Bakai said. Of course, on free passage through the <b>Seaway of Hormuz<\/b>, he said &#8220;it will have to be agreed between Iran, Oman and the countries bordering the sea route.&#8221; &#8220;The US has nothing to do with it,&#8221; Esmail Bakai stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-50 chance of a deal or war with Iran. That&#8217;s what Donald Trump is leaking while still holding his cards close to his chest.<br \/>\nIn the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}