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A ceasefire was set up for peace talks between Iran and the US – but with Trump rejecting Iran’s response on Sunday there are fears fighting could resume
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President Donald Trump<\/a> has warned that a US-Iran<\/a> ceasefire is now \u201con life support\u201d<\/a> as negotiations between the countries appear to have hit a deadlock.
The US leader said on Monday the agreement is now \u201cunbelievably weak\u201d, adding that it\u2019s \u201cthe weakest right now after reading a piece of garbage they sent us.\u201d
He added that he \u201cdidn\u2019t even finish reading\u201d Tehran<\/a>\u2019s latest proposal. \u201cAm I going to waste my time reading it? I would say it’s one of the weakest right now. It’s on life support … I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support.\u201d
Iran hit back earlier after previous comments by Trump<\/a> calling their suggestions \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran\u2019s proposals had been \u201cgenerous\u201d and \u201clegitimate\u201d in a news conference on Monday.
Iran is \u201cdemanding an end to the war, lifting the (US) blockade and piracy, and releasing Iranian assets that have been unjustly frozen in banks due to US pressure,” Mr Baghaei said.
Iran also issued<\/a> a threat to the UK and France, warning that any warships in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> \u201cwill be met with decisive response\u201d.
Tommy Pigott, a spokesperson for the US State Department, has said that Donald Trump will make a \u201cgood deal\u201d with Iran.
\u201cPresident Trump is going to make a good deal for the American people that protects the United States, the world and future generations\u201d, Pigott told Fox News.
Pigott said the Trump administration has been clear that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, a sticking point during negotiations.
Donald Trump has hosted a dinner at the White House with law enforcement officials.
The US president told his guests Monday night, local time, that he \u201cset aside the Iranians for an evening\u201d to join them.
The US Treasury Department has ramped up economic pressure on Iran’s oil operations.
The agency announced Monday that it was sanctioning 12 individuals and entities \u201cfor their roles enabling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 (IRGC) sale and shipment of Iranian oil\u201d to China.
It comes a day before US President Donald Trump departs for his state visit to China.
\u201cAs Iran\u2019s military desperately tries to regroup, Economic Fury will continue to deprive the regime of funding for its weapons programs, terrorist proxies, and nuclear ambitions\u201d, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote<\/a> on X.
\u201cTreasury will continue to cut the Iranian regime off from the financial networks it uses to carry out terrorist acts and to destabilize the global economy\u201d.
The war that U President Donald Trump unilaterally started with Iran<\/a> is sending oil prices through the stratosphere with no end in sight \u2014 and Americans are paying record-high gasoline prices just as the summer travel season comes into view. Unsurprisingly, his approval ratings are lower than they\u2019ve ever been, and the giant ballroom that is Trump\u2019s passion project is deeply unpopular.
So what is the leader of the free world up to this week? He\u2019s jetting off to Beijing<\/a> to be feted in a lavish state visit<\/a> \u2014 including a sumptuous banquet in a golden ballroom that dwarfs the controversial monstrosity he\u2019s building where the White House\u2019s East Wing stood before he, wait for it, unilaterally demolished it.
Trump\u2019s two-day sojourn in China<\/a> \u2014 he actually leaves Tuesday and arrives late Wednesday before returning Friday \u2014 comes as the president and his administration remain locked in the economic malaise brought on by his own decision to launch a war against Iran without regard for decades of strategic analyses which had calculated that Tehran would retaliate by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, wreaking havoc on global markets by choking off a key maritime route for approximately a fifth of the world\u2019s petroleum supply.
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Pakistan allowed Iranian military aircraft to park on its airfields, US officials told CBS News<\/a>.
Shortly after US President Donald Trump announced a fragile ceasefire with Iran last month, Iran sent multiple aircraft to Pakistan Air Force Base Nur Khan, according to the officials.
Pakistan has played an important role in mediating communications between the US and Iran amid the war.
A senior Pakistani official denied that it was parking Iranian aircraft at Nur Khan Air Base, just outside of Rawalpindi.
\u201cNur Khan base is right in the heart of [the] city, a large fleet of aircrafts parked there can’t be hidden from [the] public eye\u201d, the official told CBS News.
Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has said there is \u201cno alternative\u201d to Tehran\u2019s 14-point peace proposal.
\u201cThere is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal\u201d, he wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cAny other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another. The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it.\u201d
Trump called Iran\u2019s latest proposal \u201cgarbage\u201d and said the US ceasefire with the country is \u201con life support\u201d.
The U.S. Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an alert<\/a> Monday to help financial institutions \u201cidentify and stop funding streams and procurement networks supporting Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.\u201d
\u201cThe Alert outlines how the IRGC facilitates and launders the proceeds of illicit oil sales by using networks of shell companies and financial facilitators. To promote detection and reporting of suspicious activity by financial institutions, the Alert provides red flags related to the IRGC\u2019s oil smuggling, front company abuse, and use of digital assets,\u201d the agency said in a statement.
U.S. businesses are contending with the rising costs amid the Iran war \u2014 and bracing for lower hiring and investment in the near future.
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