Trump says he's 'not satisfied' with Iran's latest proposal to end war with US

ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump said connected Friday that he’s “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest connection successful negotiations to extremity warfare betwixt the countries.

“They privation to marque a deal, I’m not satisfied with it, truthful we’ll spot what happens,” Trump told reporters Friday astatine the White House.

Trump did not elaborate connected what helium sees arsenic the proposal’s shortcomings.

The president said negotiations person continued by telephone aft helium called disconnected his envoys’ travel to Pakistan past week. He expressed vexation with Iran’s leadership, which helium described arsenic fractured.

“It’s a precise disjointed leadership,” helium said. “They each privation to marque a deal, but they’re each messed up.”

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier communicative follows below.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran has handed implicit its latest connection for negotiations with the United States to mediators successful Pakistan, Iran's state-run IRNA quality bureau reported Friday.

The U.S. and Pakistan did not instantly corroborate receiving the caller proposal. There was nary connection connected what details are included successful the program submitted precocious Thursday, according to the report.

A shaky three-week ceasefire betwixt the U.S. and Iran appears to beryllium inactive holding though some countries person traded accusations of violations.

While the ceasefire has mostly halted warring successful Iran, the U.S. and Iran are locked successful a standoff implicit the Strait of Hormuz, done which a 5th of the world’s traded lipid and state passes successful peacetime. A U.S. Navy blockade stopping Iran's tankers from getting retired to oversea has Iran’s system reeling. The satellite system is besides nether unit arsenic Iran maintains its chokehold connected the strait.

U.S. President Donald Trump this week floated a caller program to reopen the captious passageway utilized by America's Gulf allies to export their lipid and gas.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a flurry of calls connected Friday with galore of his determination counterparts, including from Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Azerbaijan, to little them connected his country’s latest initiatives to extremity the war, according to his societal media.

European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas besides spoke implicit telephone Friday with Araghchi. They discussed ongoing diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and semipermanent information arrangements, Kallas’ bureau said successful a statement. Kallas besides has been successful interaction with the EU's Gulf partners.

The Trump medication declined to accidental whether it had received a caller connection from Iran.

“We bash not item backstage diplomatic conversations,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said successful a statement. “President Trump has been wide that Iran tin ne'er person a atomic weapon, and negotiations proceed to guarantee the short- and semipermanent nationalist information of the United States.”

Pakistan connected Friday besides would not corroborate oregon contradict that Tehran had sent proposals to Islamabad, arsenic officials said efforts were continuing to easiness tensions betwixt Iran and the U.S. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told a Cabinet gathering connected Wednesday that a effect from Iran was inactive awaited.

Earlier this week, Trump told Axios that helium had rejected Iran’s connection to reopen the strait successful speech for the U.S. Navy lifting its blockade of Iranian ports.

The Iranian connection would person pushed negotiations connected the country’s atomic programme to a aboriginal date, 2 determination officials said earlier this week. The officials with cognition of the connection spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon closed-door negotiations betwixt Iranian and Pakistani officials.

One of the large reasons Trump has said helium went to warfare was to contradict Iran the quality to make atomic weapons.

Since the warfare began connected Feb. 28, astatine slightest 3,375 radical person been killed successful Iran, and much than 2,600 radical successful Lebanon, wherever caller warring betwixt Israel and the Iran-backed militant radical Hezbollah broke retired 2 days aft the warfare started, according to authorities.

Additionally, 24 radical person died successful Israel and much than 20 successful Gulf Arab states. Seventeen Israeli soldiers successful Lebanon and 13 U.S. work members passim the portion person been killed.

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Ezzidin reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Sylvie Corbet successful Paris and Collin Binkley successful Washington contributed to this report.

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