Trump tightens terms on Iran war deal, US media say

US officials bespeak Tehran whitethorn instrumentality days to respond to Trump’s tougher presumption connected a imaginable statement to extremity the astir three-month war.

President Donald Trump sought to alteration respective presumption of a connection to extremity the US-Israel warfare connected Iran, according to media reports successful the United States, arsenic a finalised woody remains elusive.

The New York Times reported connected Saturday that Trump’s changes progressive toughening the woody terms, and the US has sent the caller model backmost to beryllium considered by Iran, according to officials acquainted with the proceedings.

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The study said it was not instantly wide what the changes entailed. However, Axios reported Trump wanted to reenforce aggregate points of the woody that helium felt were important, specified arsenic what to bash with Iran’s atomic material.

A elder US authoritative told Axios that Trump was informed it could instrumentality 3 days for Iran to respond.

“They’re virtually successful caves, and they’re not utilizing email,” the authoritative told Axios.

“There volition beryllium a deal. The imminence of it, we’ll see. We’re consenting to hold truthful the president gets what helium asks for. It could beryllium a week. It could beryllium less. It could beryllium more. At the crook of the week, we anticipation to person something,” the authoritative added.

Meanwhile, Iran’s main negotiator said Sunday that Tehran would not hold to immoderate woody with Washington unless it afloat secures Iranian rights.

“There is nary spot successful the ⁠enemy’s words and ⁠promises. Our lone criterion is to execute tangible results ⁠before we fulfill our ⁠commitments successful ⁠return,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said aft taking an oath arsenic ‌the re-elected talker of parliament.

The caller tweaks could prolong negotiations betwixt the parties for days earlier a determination is reached connected whether the woody would extremity the war, which began aft the US and Israel attacked Iran connected February 28.

US sources told the AFP quality bureau that the connection had been waiting connected Trump’s sign-off, but helium made nary determination aft a White House Situation Room gathering connected Friday.

Richard Weitz, elder chap astatine NATO Defense College, says that “the longer we don’t person an agreed, modular ceasefire and possibly an eventual bid agreement, determination is heightened hazard that the kinetic operations volition restart” successful the US-Israeli warfare connected Iran.

“The risks are mean compared to the worth of reaching an agreement, successful which some sides consciousness satisfied and truthful instrumentality to that statement alternatively than effort to revise it later, which could pb to adjacent much escalation,” helium told Al Jazeera.

Trump has said his priorities for immoderate woody included Iran agreeing to ne'er make atomic weapons and the reopening of the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, done which astir 20 percent of the world’s lipid proviso transits.

On Saturday, the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters reasserted the country’s power implicit the strait, warning that overseas commercialized and subject vessels would beryllium targeted if they did not comply with regulations governing transition done the strategical waterway.

Tehran has besides said repeatedly that it does not mean to physique atomic weapons. In March 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, the erstwhile US manager of nationalist intelligence, testified to Congress that Washington “continues to measure that Iran is not gathering a atomic weapon”.