{"id":96315,"date":"2026-05-03T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/96315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:39:48","slug":"iran-reviews-us-response-to-peace-proposal-warns-against-further-military-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/96315\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reviews US response to peace proposal, warns against further military action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran<\/a>‘s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said the United States<\/a> faced a choice between an “impossible” military operation or a deal with Tehran, after US President Donald Trump<\/a> disparaged Iran’s latest peace proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Negotiations between the two countries have been deadlocked since a ceasefire came into effect on April 8<\/a>, with only one round of direct peace talks held so far.<\/p>\n

Iran’s foreign ministry said Tehran had submitted a 14-point plan “focused on ending the war” and that Washington had already responded to it in a message to Pakistani mediators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are reviewing this and will take whatever response is necessary regarding it,” spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told state television.<\/p>\n

Trump, however, had already dismissed the offer.<\/p>\n

“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,” Trump said, in a post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

US news website Axios reported, citing two sources briefed on the proposal, that it set “a one-month deadline for negotiations on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, end the US naval blockade and permanently end the war in Iran<\/a> and in Lebanon<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Sunday, the Revolutionary Guards sought to put the onus back on Trump, saying he must choose between “an impossible operation or a bad deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran”.<\/p>\n

“The room for US decision-making has narrowed,” they said.<\/p>\n

Washington’s European allies are concerned that the longer the strait remains closed the more their economies will suffer, and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul demanded it be reopened.<\/p>\n

In a call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, Wadephul stressed that Germany<\/a> supported a negotiated solution but that “Iran must completely and verifiably renounce nuclear weapons<\/a> and immediately open the Strait of Hormuz.”<\/p>\n

‘If they misbehave’<\/p>\n

In a brief interview with reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida<\/a>, on Saturday, the US president declined to specify what could trigger new American military action.<\/p>\n

“If they misbehave, if they do something bad, but right now, we’ll see,” he said. “But it’s a possibility that could happen, certainly.”<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US naval blockade was only part of a broader economic embargo.<\/p>\n

“We are suffocating the regime, and they are not able to pay their soldiers. This is a real economic blockade, and it is in all parts of government\u00a0\u2013\u00a0all hands on deck,” he said, in a Fox News<\/a> interview.<\/p>\n

Read moreMiddle East war live: Israel strikes south Lebanon beyond designated ‘security zone’<\/a><\/p>\n

In yet more bellicose rhetoric, Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>, said Iranian forces would sink US ships.<\/p>\n

“The US is the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers. Our ability to confront pirates is no less than our ability to sink warships. Prepare to face a graveyard of your carriers and forces,” he posted on X.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that Iran has sunk any US military<\/a> vessels during the war.<\/p>\n

Axios reported earlier in the week that Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff<\/a> had asked for Tehran’s nuclear programme to be put back on the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

But Iran’s mission to the UN pointed to the massive US nuclear arsenal, accusing Washington on Saturday of “hypocritical behaviour” towards Iran’s own atomic ambitions.<\/p>\n

‘Trying to endure’<\/p>\n

Iran has maintained a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz since the war began, choking off major flows of oil, gas and fertiliser to the world economy<\/a>, while the US has imposed a counter-blockade on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n

Oil prices are about 50 percent above pre-war levels.<\/p>\n

The deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Nikzad, said that under draft legislation being considered for managing the strait, 30 percent of tolls<\/a> collected would go towards military<\/a> infrastructure, with the rest earmarked for “economic development”.<\/p>\n

“Managing the Strait of Hormuz is more important than acquiring nuclear weapons,” he said.<\/p>\n

In Iran, the war’s economic toll is deepening, with oil exports<\/a> curtailed and inflation<\/a> surging past 50 percent.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is trying to endure it, but … they are falling apart,” 40-year-old Amir, a Tehran resident, told an AFP reporter based outside the country.<\/p>\n

“We still have not seen much of the economic effects because everyone had a bit of savings. They had some gold and dollars for a rainy day. When they run out, things will change.”<\/p>\n

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