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President Trump said late Saturday that he is reviewing Iran’s latest proposal for ending the war as tensions with the Islamic Republic continue to mount.
“I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump made the post shortly after talking to reporters as he boarded Air Force One in Florida, and expressed skepticism about the possibility of a deal.
“I’ll let you know about it later,” he said, adding that “they’re going to give me the exact wording now.”
The announcement comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scheduled a meeting of his security cabinet for Sunday.
Trump told reporters in West Palm Beach earlier Saturday there was a chance the U.S. could restart strikes on the Islamic Republic.
“If they misbehave, if they do something bad — but right now, we’ll see. It’s a possibility that could happen, certainly,” Trump said.
Worries of renewed armed conflict have been mounting after President Trump said he wasn’t satisfied with an apparent earlier Iranian offer amid prolonged diplomatic talks over the country’s nuclear weapons program and closure of the Straight of Hormuz.
“They want to make a deal, I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House Friday.
He claimed that the Iranian government wanted to make a deal “so badly” but was too disjointed to make the concessions necessary to reach an agreement with the United States.
“They’re asking for things that I can’t agree to,” Trump said.
Iran has demanded the U.S. lift its blockade of the Straight of Hormuz before discussing the nuclear issue.
The U.S. blocked Iranian ships from using the maritime passageway after the Ayatollah regime cut off use of the straight for international commerce.
Iranian officials warned of a return to kinetic war after Trump suggested that the United States might be better off without a deal at an event in West Palm Beach also on Friday.
“Renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely,” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Officer Mohammad Jafar Asadi said.
Trump has voiced reluctance to return to war, but has threatened a massive response if the Islamic Republic refused to agree not to develop a nuclear weapon.
“There are the options: Do you want to go blast the hell out of ’em and finish them forever, or do we want to try and make a deal? I mean, those are the options,” he told reporters
As tensions in the region mount, CENTCOM Admiral Brad Cooper visited troops aboard the USS Tripoli in the Arabian Sea.
During the visit he “interacted with service members, recognized top performers, and toured various spaces throughout the amphibious assault ship, including the Combat Information Center,” CENTCOM posted on X.
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