Top updates: Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own conditions
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Iran on Wednesday dismissed a 15-point ceasefire plan proposed by the United States to pause the conflict in West Asia, and instead countered it with a negotiation plan of its own, The Guardian reported.
Iranian state TV quoted an unidentified official as saying Tehran had rejected the plan it had received via Pakistan, saying it would “end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met”, the newspaper reported.
Later in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also said that his government had not engaged in talks to end the war, “and we do not plan on any negotiations,” AP reported.
The statement came even as US President Donald Trump claimed that Tehran desperately wanted to arrive at a deal, but was not willing to admit it.
Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
- The 15-point plan proposed by Washington broadly focused on sanctions relief, civilian nuclear cooperation, rollback of Iran’s nuclear programme, monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency, missile limits and access for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, AP quoted unidentified Pakistani officials as saying.
- On the other hand, the conditions laid out by Iran to end the war included guaranteed payment for war damage and reparations, end to aggression and assassinations, concrete guarantees preventing the...