{"id":635326,"date":"2026-05-10T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635326\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:14:18","slug":"iran-responds-to-u-s-proposal-for-ending-war-amid-ongoing-hostilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635326\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran responds to U.S. proposal for ending war amid ongoing hostilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran has responded to the United States\u2019 proposal to end the war, a senior foreign diplomat in Tehran linked to the peace negotiations told MS NOW Sunday.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear what Iran\u2019s response entailed. But it came one day after top Trump officials met in Miami <\/a>with Qatar\u2019s prime minister as the war entered its tenth week and more than a month after the Pakistani-brokered ceasefire agreement<\/a> between Washington and Tehran. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a positive step but any ending is still a long way down the road,\u201d the source said of Iran\u2019s response to the most recent proposal. \u201cMistrust needs to be seriously reduced and atmospherics need to be substantially improved.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump issued a statement<\/a> on Truth Social Sunday afternoon in which he said Iran \u201chas been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years.\u201d The president did not address an Iranian response or whether he or his administration officials were reviewing anything but he warned, \u201cThey will be laughing no longer!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly insisted the ceasefire remains intact despite the continued exchange of hostilities and mirroring naval blockades. The U.S. launched strikes against Iran last week in retaliation for an attack on U.S. Navy destroyers, with Trump initially dismissing it as just \u201ca love tap.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump, in a wide-ranging interview<\/a> that aired Sunday on \u201cFull Measure,\u201d said the U.S. has hit \u201cprobably 70 percent\u201d of its targets and that Iran has \u201cno leaders\u201d and \u201cno military.\u201d But he added that combat operations have not ended.<\/p>\n

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an X post Sunday<\/a>, \u201cWe will never bow our heads before the enemy, and if talk of dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat.\u201d And Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, warned that<\/a> \u201cany deployment and stationing of extra-regional destroyers around the Strait of Hormuz, under the pretext of \u2018protecting shipping,\u2019 is nothing but an escalation of the crisis, the militarization of a vital waterway, and an attempt to cover up the true root of insecurity in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said in a Sunday interview on ABC<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei \u201chas been severely injured\u201d and is \u201cdifficult to get a hold of.\u201d He acknowledged that negotiations are taking \u201clonger and slower, I think, than anyone would like\u201d but said \u201cthose negotiations and that diplomacy is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tErum Salam is a breaking news reporter for MS NOW, with a focus on how global events and foreign policy shape U.S. politics. She previously was a breaking news reporter for The Guardian.\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tInzamam Rashid is a MS NOW contributor and Monocle\u2019s Gulf Correspondent based in Dubai. He has previously reported for Sky News and the BBC\t\t<\/p>\n

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