U.S. President Donald Trump today rejected Iran’s response to the latest United States proposal aimed at ending the war in the Middle East, in a statement posted on his Truth Social platform.
“I have just read the response from the so-called ‘representatives’ of Iran. I don’t like it at all — IT IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he wrote on his social network, without providing further details regarding the refusal. The U.S. head of state returned to his frequent use of all-caps to emphasize his message.
In another message posted two hours earlier, Trump accused Iran of “laughing at the U.S. for decades” and promised that such a situation would not continue much longer. He further criticized former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for having supported and economically benefited Iran.
“Iran has been cheating the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years. They mock our country, which has now regained its greatness, but they won’t be laughing much longer!” he stated. Trump listed several grievances: “The Iranians have been misleading us, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, crushing protests, and recently exterminating 42,000 innocent and unarmed protesters, and laughing at our country,” he wrote.
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He added that Barack Obama “was not only benevolent toward the Iranians, he was fantastic, effectively moving to their side, abandoning Israel and all other allies, and giving Iran a significant and very powerful new lease on life.”
“Hundreds of billions of dollars and $1.7 billion in cold hard cash, flown to Tehran, were handed to them on a silver platter. Every bank in Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied — it was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like that, and they never will again,” Donald Trump stated in the message.
Iranian state media reported today that Iran transmitted its response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war via Pakistan, which is acting as a mediator. According to a source close to the negotiations cited by the IRNA agency, “according to the proposed plan, the current phase of negotiations is focused exclusively on the cessation of hostilities in the region.”
ISNA, another Iranian news agency, later reported that the Iranian response focuses on “the end of the war and maritime security.” “The main axis of Iran’s response to the U.S. proposal is ‘the end of the war and maritime security’ in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” ISNA wrote on its Telegram account.
The American proposals were a counter-response to a previous 14-point proposal presented by Iran last week. Tehran had previously insisted that negotiations should focus, in the first phase, on a peace agreement and the end of the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, postponing any negotiation regarding its nuclear program to a later stage.
