U.S. President reveals Tehran quickly delivered revised offer following abrupt cancellation of Pakistan negotiations, while Washington maintains firm stance on nuclear restrictions
The Iranian regime presented the United States with a “much better” peace proposal within 10 minutes of President Donald Trump canceling planned talks in Pakistan on April 25.
“They gave us a paper that should have been better and interestingly, immediately, when I canceled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better,” Trump told reporters in Florida as he boarded Air Force One en route to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington.
The president did not disclose details of the revised proposal but emphasized that the United States remains firm in its position that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon.
Trump added that the Iranian regime “offered a lot” regarding resolving the nuclear issue, but said it was “not enough.”
Planned peace negotiations between the United States and Iran collapsed before they began on Saturday.
Trump abruptly canceled the trip of a U.S. delegation—set to include special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner—to Pakistan, citing confusion within Iran’s leadership.
“I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on April 25.
“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!”
The president suggested that leaders within Iran were “fighting not to be the leader, because we knocked out two levels of leaders.”
“But I’ll deal with whoever we have to,” Trump added. “But there’s no reason to wait two days, have people traveling for 16, 17 hours, and we’re not doing it that way.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was already in Pakistan when the talks were called off.
Despite the cancellation, Araghchi described the visit as “very fruitful” and thanked Pakistan for making “brotherly efforts to bring back peace to our region we very much value.”
He added that he had “shared Iran’s position concerning [a] workable framework to permanently end the war on Iran” and said it remains to be seen whether the United States is “truly serious about diplomacy.”
The United States last week extended its ceasefire with Iran while continuing its naval blockade on vessels entering and leaving the country. According to United States Central Command, U.S. forces have redirected 37 ships since the blockade began.
