US President Donald Trump mentioned Saturday night he’ll quickly review a new plan from Iran, however that he “can’t imagine that it would be acceptable.”
“They told me about the concept of the deal. They’re going to give me the exact wording now,” he advised reporters as he boarded Air Force One in Florida.
Iran submitted a 14-point response to a proposal from the US, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim information company reported on Saturday.
Tasnim reported that the US proposed a two-month ceasefire, however that Iran believes “that the issues should be resolved within 30 days” and that negotiations ought to give attention to the “termination of the war” quite than extending a ceasefire.
Iranian officers haven’t but publicly commented on the main points of the reported response.
The president additionally pushed again on remarks he made Friday night, when he mentioned, “Frankly, maybe we’re better off not making a deal at all. Do you want to know the truth? Because we can’t let this thing go on.”
“I didn’t say that,” Trump mentioned Saturday.
“I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we’re not leaving right now,” he advised reporters.
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NCS’s Alejandra Jaramillo, Aleena Fayaz, Mitchell McCluskey, Jomana Karadsheh, Jennifer Hansler, Max Saltman, Eyad Kourdi and Eugenia Yosef contributed reporting.