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Celerity

(54,333 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:09 AM 7 hrs ago

Iran war latest: Tehran rejects US peace proposals, Iranian national newspaper mocks 'Pinocchio' Trump


Tehran demands payment of war damages and reparations in counter-offer as it vows to keep fighting

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran/article/iran-war-latest-non-hostile-vessels-can-now-enter-strait-of-hormuz-tehran-says-nbhgc07z6

https://archive.ph/8ib9c


A F/A-18E Super Hornet launching from the flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln in February
AP


Iran dismisses US peace plan

Iran has dismissed an American proposal to end the war against it, and proposed counterdemands which include payment of war damages and reparations, state media has reported. “Iran will end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met,” a senior official told Press TV today, according to the government-controlled channel.

The official suggested that Tehran viewed the US proposals as “excessive” and “disconnected from the reality of America’s failure on the battlefield”, Press TV reported. It outlined five specific conditions under which Iran would agree to end the war, including: a complete halt to “aggression and assassinations” by the enemy; concrete mechanisms to ensure that the war does not break out again, and “guaranteed and clearly defined payment of war damages and reparations”.

Iran is also asking for the “conclusion of the war across all fronts and for all resistance groups involved throughout the region” — likely to be a reference to Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon — and “international recognition and guarantees regarding Iran’s sovereign right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz”.

These terms are in addition to demands previously presented by Tehran to the Trump administration during rounds of negotiations in Geneva, which took place just days before the US and Israel started the war on February 28. A ceasefire is contingent on the acceptance of all the Iranian conditions, the Press TV report said. “No negotiations will be held prior to that,” it quoted the official as saying, adding that Iran’s “defensive operations will persist” until its conditions are met.

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Iran war latest: Tehran rejects US peace proposals, Iranian national newspaper mocks 'Pinocchio' Trump (Original Post) Celerity 7 hrs ago OP
So the question then is: Disaffected 7 hrs ago #1
But Trump says they just gave him a present leftstreet 7 hrs ago #2
Link to BBC live thread nitpicked 7 hrs ago #3
Oh goodie! The big gift, the prize, that Trump mentioned!! CoopersDad 7 hrs ago #4
10,000+ v 249+ malaise 7 hrs ago #5
But Trump told us that he had already won the war ... Jarqui 7 hrs ago #6
A first rate low IQ malaise 6 hrs ago #7
Interesting that Pinocchio crosses so many cultural lines GenThePerservering 5 hrs ago #8
Sounds like unconditional surrender . . . Ms. Toad 5 hrs ago #9

Disaffected

(6,391 posts)
1. So the question then is:
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:17 AM
7 hrs ago

Who is most likely to be lying (or, who is lying the most)? Trump or Iran - either would be a good bet IMO.

leftstreet

(40,534 posts)
2. But Trump says they just gave him a present
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:18 AM
7 hrs ago

He said it was "a very big present" and "we're dealing with the right people"



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CoopersDad

(3,320 posts)
4. Oh goodie! The big gift, the prize, that Trump mentioned!!
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:19 AM
7 hrs ago

I thank Iran for making it more clear than ever that the felon is also a liar.

Jarqui

(10,906 posts)
6. But Trump told us that he had already won the war ...
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:53 AM
7 hrs ago

(as he asked for hundreds of billion$ more for the war he'd already won ...)

Doesn't the other side stop fighting after you have won the war ?
I guess this is Trump's "Mission Accomplished" moment ...

Ms. Toad

(38,594 posts)
9. Sounds like unconditional surrender . . .
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:40 PM
5 hrs ago

by the US to me.

Thank you to the idiot-in-chief in charge of the war.

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