{"id":429430,"date":"2026-05-07T04:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:50:15","slug":"live-updates-iran-expected-to-respond-thursday-to-us-proposal-for-ending-the-war-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429430\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran expected to respond Thursday to US proposal for ending the war, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92q1h00023b6taf1tk6kd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran\u2019s parliament and one of the negotiators in past talks with the US in Pakistan, warned Iranians of a hard road ahead in a series of audio messages posted by state media.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200043b6teid0mjgs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US seeks \u201cto destroy the country\u2019s unity in order to force us into surrender,\u201d Ghalibaf said. \u201cOf course, let me also say that we do not underestimate the possibility of military attacks, especially terrorist attacks.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200053b6t71dn4r40@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ghalibaf\u2019s statements come as President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran further if a final agreement isn\u2019t reached. Around the same time on Wednesday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IRIMFA_SPOX\/status\/2052031301960527895?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">appeared to suggest<\/a> in a social media post that the US is negotiating in bad faith.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200063b6tgdzrlaat@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Much of Ghalibaf\u2019s audio message focused on belt-tightening, saying that the US intends to break Iran through \u201ceconomic pressure,\u201d and requesting that Iranians practice thriftiness, calling frugality a \u201cmissile that people can fire into the heart of the enemy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200073b6ts0jdnrnb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cMy request to all people is that you yourselves practice saving and frugality, and also seriously encourage others to do the same,\u201d Ghalibaf said, calling all \u201cintellectuals and specialists\u201d to approach the government directly with ideas to \u201csolve the problems that arise because of the war.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200083b6tg3mn7hg6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The parliamentarian also noted that \u201cthe people of America are facing a serious challenge from rising living costs,\u201d favorably contrasting Iranians with their American counterparts.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou92rs200093b6tn3v0qs96@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cExperts specializing in Iran admit that no matter how much economic pressure the Iranian nation faces, because of their independence, the dignity of their homeland, and their faith and beliefs, they will endure these hardships,\u201d Ghalibaf said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran\u2019s parliament and one of the negotiators in past talks with the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,7788,21627,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-429430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hnk","tag-intl","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}