Donald Trump slams Iran’s ‘piece of garbage’ ceasefire plan
Topics: Donald Trump, Iran, World News, Politics, News, US News
Madison Burgess
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Topics: Donald Trump, Iran, World News, Politics, News, US News
Donald Trump just worryingly declared that the month-long ceasefire between America and Iran is on ‘massive life support’.
It comes after the US President, 79, rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war, which reportedly included some concessions on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
The conflict began at the end of February when Trump joined together with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to drop drones across the Iranian capital.
This wiped out the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and sparked counterstrikes, with the conflict expanding throughout the Middle East and other countries getting pulled in.
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The war continued for more than five weeks before a two-week ceasefire was announced on 8 April, which was later indefinitely extended by Trump to facilitate talks to end the fighting.
However, despite the ceasefire mostly being observed in the past month, it looks like things could be going downhill again.
One major point of contention is that Iran has continued to block the Strait of Hormuz, which has prompted a rise in world oil prices, as normally, around 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas passes through the waterway, reports the BBC.
With Pakistan acting as a mediator, Iran laid out its demands to end the war and reopen the strait in a counteroffer sent to the US on Sunday (10 May).
But Trump rejected the country’s proposal, brutally calling it ‘totally unacceptable’ and a ‘piece of garbage’.
Speaking about the ceasefire in the Oval Office on Monday (11 May), he said: “I would call it the weakest, right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us - I didn’t even finish reading it.
“I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says: ‘Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.’”
He also wrote on Truth Social: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘representatives’. I don’t like it - totally unacceptable.”
It comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the conflict was ‘not over’, in a new interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes that aired on Sunday,
He said that a critical goal is getting the nuclear material out of Iran, and if that can’t be achieved with negotiations, Israel and the US agree ‘we can re-engage them militarily’.
Netanyahu also eerily said the current Iranian government’s ‘days are numbered - but it could take a lot of days’.
Meanwhile, Trump has also demanded that the nuclear material be removed completely, and is unlikely to accept other Iranian proposals for the formalisation of its control of the strait and for US reparations.
As reported by The Guardian, he said of the stockpile: “We’ll get that at some point … We have it surveilled. I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching that … If anybody got near the place, we will know about it - and we’ll blow them up.”