—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump has rejected Iran’s demands and sent a tougher counter-proposal back to Iran – New York Times

Sources said the move was aimed at speeding up the process and pressuring Iran to agree with the current proposal.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 So, let me get this straight:

– Iran and U.S. reach a broad framework deal, both sides initially agree it’ll include the release of half of Iran’s frozen assets (~$12 Billion) and a full ceasefire in Lebanon.

– Within a few days, the U.S. backtracks, and says it agrees with ‘90%’ of the proposal, except for Iran’s key demands (unfreezing the funds & Lebanon), and it also wants to have a commitment on the uranium stockpile.

– Iran says no, that’s not what we agreed on, and so the MoU negotiations reach a stalemate. Ball is now in Trump’s court to accept original terms that were mutually agreed.

– After almost a week of deliberation, Trump finally decides he can’t actually accept what Iran, Pakistan & U.S. representatives (including Witkoff) have agreed to. But that’s not the end.

– Instead, Trump sends back an even TOUGHER proposal, while Iran ALREADY DID NOT AGREE with the latest U.S. amendments (no release of frozen funds & Israeli freedom of action in Lebanon), and somehow expecting that Iran would then backtrack and accept those U.S. amendments out of fear for the even tougher terms.

This can be compared to two people who are negotiating the price of a car. Person A (salesman) wants $5000 for the car, person B (buyer) agrees. After a short while, the salesman then says ‘actually, I want $6000’, and the buyer refuses. Then the salesman goes even further and says ‘you know what? I want $10,000 for it’, hoping that his offer of $6000 would then be taken by the buyer. In short? Delusion.

This is exactly the kind of goalpost shifting that Iran has long taken issue with. The U.S. constantly changes its demands and cannot agree on anything, it’s simply impossible to make a deal with an administration like this.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Trump’s newest proposal includes not handing over any frozen assets to Iran, no ceasefire in Lebanon, and a firm commitment for Iran to transfer its enriched uranium

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: The IRGC announces it shot down an MQ-1 ‘Predator’ drone

In the original statement, it was said the drone belongs to America, but the U.S. no longer operates the MQ-1.

Instead, the drone likely belongs to the United Arab Emirates, the only regional nation that operates the MQ-1 besides Turkey.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump to Fox News: ‘Iran will raise the white flag of surrender’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump to Fox News: ‘We’re winning in Iran. We’ve had a complete and total victory.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘We’ll get what we want from Iran, slowly and steadily. I’m not in a hurry. The Iranians are very skilled negotiators, and it’ll take time. But if they don’t make a deal, we will end the conflict in a totally different way.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran is in a very bad position. They have no air force, no navy, no nothing. All they have is talk and fake news.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Trump was informed that Iran would take about three days to respond to his latest proposal; ‘they’re literally in caves, they don’t use email’, one official said – Axios

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Hezbollah is about to release footage of an FPV strike on an Israeli rescue vehicle.

I think this is the rescue vehicle that attempted to save the fat woman soldier a few days ago.