Iran has reportedly rejected US president Donald Trump’s peace plan and has laid out five conditions to end the war.The news comes as the two countries continue to tell very different stories about whether peace negotiations are actually happening.According to Trump, they are having ‘very good and productive conversations’, with Iran even gifting him ‘a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money’.But if you listen to Iran, they have accused Trump of ‘negotiating with himself’ and sending ‘backstabbing’ emissaries.Now, the United States has issued its first outline of a 15-point plan to end the war in the Middle East, according to two regional sources and a US official.
Trump confirmed the 15 points earlier this week and previously expressed optimism about the two nations reaching an agreement.”They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. That’s number one. That’s number one, two and three,” Trump said on Monday (23 March), adding that Iran had agreed to that point. “They will never have a nuclear weapon.”Other elements of the proposed peace plan, as reported by Al Jazeera, include a 30-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, limits on the range and number of Iran’s missiles, Iran ending its support for regional proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and a commitment for Iran to let the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitor its nuclear infrastructure.But Iran’s state broadcaster Press TV reports, citing a ‘senior political-security official’, that Tehran has rejected a US proposal to end the current war, calling the conditions ‘excessive’.The official with knowledge of the details of the proposal, speaking exclusively to Press TV, said Iran will not allow US President Donald Trump to dictate the timing of the war’s end,” the outlet reported earlier today (25 March).