Iran responds to US proposal - Trump: totally unacceptable

He also issued further threats against the Islamic Republic. Tehran was once again unimpressed.

"I have just read the response from the so-called "representatives" of Iran. I don't like it - TOTALLY INACCEPTABLE," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. There were no further details on the proposal or next steps. Hours earlier, Trump had already threatened Tehran in another post. "They won't be laughing much longer!" it said.

In Iran, the Tasnim news agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, quoted an informed source as saying that Trump's reaction had no significance. No one in Iran is making proposals to please Trump, it said. The negotiating team should only draw up proposals that are in the interests of the Iranian people.

Iran's response went to the mediator Pakistan

On Sunday, Iran forwarded a response to the US proposal to end the war to the mediator Pakistan. The state broadcaster Irib reported that the text proposed by Iran focused on ending the fighting on all fronts, particularly in Lebanon, as well as ensuring the safety of shipping.

Iran's government announced a few days ago that it was examining a proposal from the USA. This is a 14-point declaration of intent. One of its aims is to create a framework for negotiations, initially lasting 30 days, in order to end the war.

According to media reports, an easing of US sanctions and agreements on the future of the Strait of Hormuz are also being discussed. In addition, a basis for negotiations on Iran's controversial nuclear program is to be created.

Iran expert Danny Citrinowicz wrote on Sunday with regard to Trump's dissatisfaction with the latest response to X that Iran has no intention of capitulating or accepting Washington's demands now or in the foreseeable future. Even if the military confrontation were to resume, Tehran is not expected to change its course. The only realistic paths to an agreement are either a compromise on central Iranian demands - or a regime change in Iran. For the latter, Washington would have to provide enormous military, political and economic resources.

Trump and Netanyahu demand surrender of enriched uranium

Meanwhile, Trump expressed confidence that the United States would "eventually" secure Iran's enriched uranium. "Well, we'll get that eventually, along with everything we want," he said in an interview published on Sunday on the program "Full Measure". The material is "under observation" by the US, Trump went on to claim. "If anybody gets close to the site, we will know about it, and we will blow it up."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also referred to this: there is still enriched uranium that needs to be removed from Iran, he said on the CBS program "60 Minutes" according to a pre-released preview. As long as this has not happened, the war is not over. When asked how the highly enriched uranium was to be removed from Iran, Netanyahu said: "You go and take it out." Netanyahu did not want to say exactly how this would take place and by when the material would be removed from Iran.

US senator: US ammunition stocks severely depleted

Meanwhile, a US senator warned that the US military's stocks of ammunition and missiles have been severely depleted. It is "shocking how much we have depleted these stocks", said Mark Kelly on the CBS program "Face The Nation". It will take years to rebuild these stocks. As a member of the Armed Forces Committee, the Pentagon had informed the Senator from Arizona about certain types of ammunition - according to Kelly, this included information on Tomahawk, ATACMS, SM-3 and Patriot missiles.

Kelly warned that the USA might not be able to defend its country in the event of a prolonged attack. The United States would then be in a worse position "than we would otherwise be if this war in Iran had not taken place". He criticized Trump for dragging the US into a war "without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timetable".

The Pentagon is currently trying to get a significant increase in defense spending approved. The Trump administration's draft budget provides for almost USD 1.5 trillion in defense spending for the 2027 financial year. Kelly described this as outrageous. The Pentagon's budget was 700 billion dollars when it was launched in the Senate five and a half years ago, he continued on "Face The Nation".