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President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was reviewing a new offer from Iran to end the war, but offered little optimism that the proposal would succeed.
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“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,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post.
Shortly before the post went live, Trump responded to questions about the negotiations from reporters on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport. The president said he would let reporters know whether he accepted or rejected the Iranian offer soon.
On Friday, Trump had said he was “not satisfied” with the proposal, but said Saturday he would examine its details further.
“They told me about the concept of the deal,” Trump said. “They’re going to give me the exact wording now.”
Iran’s latest proposal would open shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade, while pushing off talks on Iran’s nuclear programs for later.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Sunday that “the room for U.S. decision-making has narrowed.”
In the statement posted to X, the IRGC added that Trump must choose between “an impossible military operation or a bad deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
But Ali Nikzad, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, signaled on Sunday that “a guaranteed complete halt to aggression against Lebanon” must come before talks on Hormuz, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
“The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been carried out to achieve peace and stability for the Lebanese people,” he added.
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon continue, killing at least seven people on Saturday despite a ceasefire. On Sunday, the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning to residents of 11 towns and villages there, claiming Hezbollah had violated the ceasefire agreement. Over 2,600 people have been killed in Lebanon since March 2, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Trump is currently weighing how to proceed in the weekslong standoff with Iran. Military officials briefed him Thursday on options for the Strait of Hormuz and on the ground in Iran.
Trump has left open the possibility of resuming strikes.
“Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever, or do we want to try and make a deal. Those are the options,” Trump told reporters Friday, adding he would “prefer not” to resume strikes.
Iran’s proposal to open the Gulf to some ships comes after it has blocked essentially all shipping, except its own, from the Gulf for more than two months. The U.S. has also enforced its own blockade of the strait since April 13.
Trump on Saturday called the U.S. blockade “friendly,” telling reporters that “nobody’s even challenging it.”
The U.S. Navy is using more than 100 fighters and surveillance aircraft, two carrier strike groups and more than a dozen ships to enforce its blockade on Iran. Last month, a Navy destroyer seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that had attempted to break through the blockade.
Trump is facing increased pressure from Capitol Hill to seek approval for the conflict. Trump has insisted that because a temporary ceasefire went into effect on April 8, he does not need Congress’ authorization to continue military operations in Iran.
According to the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the president must seek authorization for war from Congress after a military operation reaches its 60th day in action. The U.S. military operations in Iran reached that mark earlier this week.
The Senate on Thursday voted for a sixth time to reject a war powers resolution that would end military operations in Iran until Congress votes to approve them.
The resolution failed by a vote of 47-50, with all Senate Democrats, with the exception of Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voting in favor of the measure. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky broke with their party to vote yes on the resolution.
Kyla Guilfoil is a breaking news reporter on the politics team for NBC News Digital.
Hannah Peart is a desk editor for NBC News based in London.
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