A ceasefire to the conflict entered its 34th day on Monday, after President Donald Trump said that Tehran’s latest response to a U.S. proposal to end the Iran War is “totally unacceptable.”
Trump made the statement in Truth Social post published late afternoon on Sunday, shortly after he said he had a “very nice” phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Details of Iran’s latest proposal, submitted to mediators over the weekend, emerged on Monday morning. Iran’s conditions to end the conflict, reported by Tasnim News Agency, include an immediate end to hostilities and guarantees against renewed aggression, the lifting of U.S. sanctions, Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz, an end to the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, and an end to the war “on all fronts,” including in Lebanon, where Israel has waged a deadly military campaign that has already displaced over 1.2 million and killed more than 2,800 people.
The Wall Street Journal had reported that Iran offered to transfer some of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to a third country, while rejecting the full dismantling of its nuclear facilities. Tasnim News Agency, citing an unnamed source close to the Revolutionary Guards, said those details were “not accurate.” Tasnim’s reporting aligns with recent statements made by Iranian officials such as foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who said that “Iran’s enriched uranium is not meant to go anywhere,” and that “just as Iran’s soil is sacred to us, this issue is equally important.”
In an interview with CBS News on Saturday, Netanyahu said the war with Iran is “not over” because
there’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it. But all that is still there, and there’s work to be done.
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Netanyahu also said that he wants to reframe U.S. military assistance to Israel as a bilateral “partnership” rather than foreign aid, proposing joint projects in intelligence, weapons, and missile defense. He added that Israel will begin fighting what he called the “eighth front,” of Israel’s wars: on social media. Netanyahu said hostile actors manipulate social media to turn Americans against Israel.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 23 people on Sunday while the IDF said that one Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah drone strike in southern Lebanon.
Gas prices remained elevated. AAA reported the national average price of gas at $4.52.
