Trump Slams Iran’s Stalling Tactics in Peace Deal Negotiations

Iran has delivered its reply to the most recent ceasefire offer from the United States, a proposal that President Donald Trump has declined.

“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — Totally Unacceptable! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump expressed in a post on Truth Social Sunday afternoon.

The United States remains confident in its strategic position. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Mike Walz, shared with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream, “We’re witnessing global support aligning with us.”

“Iran has revealed its true nature, but President Trump is still open to diplomacy, supported by the strength of our formidable U.S. military,” Walz continued.

The latest initiative from the Trump administration proposed a resolution to the conflict, reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a rollback of Iran’s nuclear activities.

Iran seeks to end the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, and to ensure the security of shipping, state TV said. 

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen or heard publicly since the war began, ‘issued new and decisive directives for the continuation of operations and the powerful confrontation with the enemies’ while meeting with the head of the joint military command, the state broadcaster reported, with no details. 

Trump has reiterated threats to resume full-scale bombing if Iran does not accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program. Iran has largely blocked the strategic waterway that’s key to the global flow of oil, natural gas and fertilizer since the war began, rattling world markets.

President Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22nd, 2026

A woman holds the Iranian flag as she stands infront of an anti-US billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 10, 2026

An explosion of what appears to be white phosphorus fired by the IDF on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border as seen from the Israeli side of the border, May 10, 2026

The U.S. military in turn has blockaded Iranian ports since April 13, saying it has turned back 61 commercial vessels and disabled four. On Friday, it struck two Iranian oil tankers it said were trying to breach the blockade. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy says any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a ‘heavy assault’ on U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships.

Another sticking point in negotiations is Iran’s highly enriched uranium. The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has more than 440 kilograms (970 pounds) enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons grade. 

In an interview posted late Saturday, an Iranian military spokesperson said forces were on ‘full readiness’ to protect sites where uranium is stored.

‘We considered it possible that they might intend to steal it through infiltration operations or heli-borne operations,’ Brig. Gen. Akrami Nia told the IRNA news agency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an excerpt of an interview with CBS airing Sunday said the war isn’t over because the enriched uranium needs to be taken out of Iran. ‘Trump has said to me, ‘I want to go in there,’ and I think it can be done physically,’ he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Moscow’s proposal to take enriched uranium from Iran to help negotiate a settlement remains on the table.

The majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely at its Isfahan nuclear complex, the International Atomic Energy Agency director-general told The Associated Press last month. The facility was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in the 12-day war last year and faced less intense attacks this year.