{"id":633312,"date":"2026-05-09T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:16:12","slug":"us-strikes-iranian-oil-tankers-while-awaiting-tehran-response-on-peace-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633312\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Iranian oil tankers while awaiting Tehran response on peace plan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent days have seen the U.S. and Iran exchange fire, despite a monthlong ceasefire which U.S. President Donald Trump maintains<\/a> is “still in effect.”<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said<\/a> the U.S. was anticipating an answer from Iran on a peace proposal. \u201cWe\u2019re expecting a response from them today at some point,” Rubio told reporters on Friday<\/a>. “I hope it\u2019s a serious offer, I really do. \u2026 The hope is it\u2019s something that can put us into a serious process of negotiation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Trump has warned<\/a> the U.S. would “knock [Iran] out a lot harder, and a lot more violently,” if Tehran does not accept a peace deal.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday accused<\/a> the U.S. of opting for a “reckless military adventure” every time a “diplomatic solution is on the table.”<\/p>\n

“Is it a crude pressure tactic? Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another quagmire?” he wrote on X<\/a>. “Whatever the causes, outcome is the same: Iranians never bow to pressure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent days have seen the U.S. and Iran exchange fire, despite a monthlong ceasefire which U.S. President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,6052,12,29313,801,643,10815,129,4379,7380,3,3310,15581,12795,21,19,22,20,25,24,1139,227793],"class_list":["post-633312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-enforcement","tag-iran","tag-marco-rubio","tag-media","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-oman","tag-ports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}