{"id":107070,"date":"2026-05-10T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:25:08","slug":"tehran-and-washington-divided-over-us-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107070\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran and Washington divided over US proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-10T18:02:44+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Tehran\/ Washington<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements persist between Tehran and Washington, after<br \/>\nIran sent its <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Iran-sends-response-to-US-proposal-via-Pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">response<\/a> through Pakistani mediators to the latest American plan to<br \/>\nend the Middle East war, US media outlets reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>Tehran views its control over the Strait of Hormuz as a<br \/>\nmajor source of leverage in negotiations with Washington, which is not accepting<br \/>\nIran\u2019s control over the waterway, and despite international opposition, the United<br \/>\nStates imposed a \u201ctight\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/World\/Trump-threatens-Project-Freedom-Plus-if-Iran-diplomacy-fails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blockade<\/a> on Iranian ports, presenting the measure as a<br \/>\nkey tool to pressure Tehran toward an agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Uranium Enrichment<\/p>\n<p>The United States maintains that Iran seeks to develop a<br \/>\nnuclear weapon, an accusation Tehran denies, insisting its nuclear activities<br \/>\nare intended solely for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Washington wants Iran to suspend enrichment activities for<br \/>\n20 years and surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, demands Tehran<br \/>\nrejects while defending what it describes as its right to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Tehran-vows-no-nuclear-weapons-amid-US-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">enrichment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ballistic Missiles<\/p>\n<p>Before the war, Washington had demanded limits on the range<br \/>\nof Iranian ballistic missiles to prevent them from reaching Israel, though it<br \/>\nremains unclear whether the US will continue insisting on such restrictions<br \/>\nafter claiming recent military operations weakened Iran\u2019s missile stockpile.<br \/>\nTehran, however, continues to reject negotiations over its ballistic missile<br \/>\nprogram, arguing that its conventional weapons capabilities are non-negotiable<br \/>\nand maintaining that it still possesses a large missile arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions and Frozen Assets<\/p>\n<p>Tehran is seeking relief from US sanctions, the release of<br \/>\nfrozen Iranian assets abroad, and compensation for war-related damages, though<br \/>\nthere appears to be little indication Washington is prepared to accept<br \/>\ncompensation demands. It also remains unclear whether Iran will continue<br \/>\ninsisting on the issue as a condition for a broader agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah<\/p>\n<p>Iran insists that any peace agreement must include an<br \/>\nIsraeli halt to the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, a condition Israel<br \/>\nrejects, as attention turns to how the US administration will respond to<br \/>\nTehran\u2019s latest reply to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Force-without-a-finish-line-Iran-is-losing-the-war-the-US-is-losing-the-endgame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Force without a finish line: Iran is losing the war, the US is losing the endgame<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-10T18:02:44+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran\/ Washington Disagreements persist between Tehran and Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[152,3065,34,20453,69,37031,153],"class_list":["post-107070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-breaking","tag-ceasefire","tag-iran","tag-proposal","tag-tehran","tag-tehran-and-washington-divided-over-us-proposal","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116551688115900519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}