{"id":73868,"date":"2026-05-03T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:33:10","slug":"iran-says-us-military-operation-impossible-as-trump-mulls-peace-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73868\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says US military operation &#8216;impossible&#8217; as Trump mulls peace proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said the United States faced a choice between an &#8220;impossible&#8221; military operation or a &#8220;bad deal&#8221; with Tehran, after President Donald Trump disparaged Iran&#8217;s latest peace proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between the two countries have been deadlocked since a ceasefire came into effect on April 8, with only <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/world\/2026\/Apr\/12\/no-agreement-between-iran-and-us-after-21-hours-of-talks-jd-vance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one round of direct peace talks<\/a> held so far.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Tasnim and Fars news agencies reported that <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/world\/2026\/May\/03\/trump-says-he-is-reviewing-a-new-iranian-proposal-to-end-the-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tehran had submitted a 14-point proposal<\/a> to mediator Pakistan, but Trump was quick to cast doubt on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can&#8217;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,&#8221; Trump said on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>US news website Axios reported, citing two sources briefed on the proposal, that it set &#8220;a one-month deadline for negotiations on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end the US naval blockade and permanently end the war in Iran and in Lebanon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the Revolutionary Guards sought to put the onus back on Trump, saying he must choose between &#8220;an impossible operation or a bad deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The room for US decision-making has narrowed,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told diplomats in Tehran that &#8220;the ball is in the United States&#8217; court to choose the path of diplomacy or the continuation of a confrontational approach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, he said, was &#8220;prepared for both paths&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said the United States faced a choice between an &#8220;impossible&#8221; military operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,57,18026,23993],"class_list":{"0":"post-73868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-greenland","10":"tag-us-iran-war","11":"tag-west-asia-crisis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116510903797684018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}