Iran-Israel war LIVE: Trump says Iran 'afraid' to admit it wants a deal

Pro-government supporters question nationalist flags arsenic 1 of them holds a representation of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a rally successful a quadrate successful occidental Tehran, Iran, connected March 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP

U.S. President Donald Trump insisted that Iran was taking portion successful bid talks, suggesting Tehran’s denials were due to the fact that Iranian negotiators fearfulness being killed by their ain side. “They are negotiating, by the way, and they privation to marque a woody truthful badly. But they’re acrophobic to accidental it, due to the fact that they fig they’ll beryllium killed by their ain people,” Mr. Trump told a meal for Republican members of Congress. “They’re besides acrophobic they’ll beryllium killed by us.”

Meanwhile, the White House warned Iran against rejecting a woody to end the warfare successful West Asia. “If Iran fails to judge the world of the existent moment... Trump volition guarantee they are deed harder than they person ever been deed before,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a quality briefing.

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“President Trump does not bluff and helium is prepared to unleash hell. Iran should not miscalculate again,” she said, portion adding that “talks continue”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, however, rejected the U.S. overture, saying “we bash not mean to negotiate”.

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“At present, our argumentation is the continuation of resistance”, Araghchi said connected authorities TV, adding that the United States “speaking of negotiations present is an admittance of defeat” by Washington. “We question an extremity to the warfare connected our ain terms,” Mr. Araghchi confirmed, “and successful a mode that it volition not beryllium repeated present again”.

An Iranian authoritative quoted by Press TV said Tehran has enactment guardant its ain 5 conditions for hostilities to end.

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These see a robust mechanics guaranteeing that neither Israel nor the U.S. volition resume the warfare arsenic good arsenic compensation for warfare damages. Iran’s conditions besides see a cessation of hostilities connected each determination fronts and against each “resistance groups”, an implicit notation to the Tehran-backed Lebanese radical Hezbollah. Tehran besides wants planetary designation and guarantees of Iran’s rights to workout its sovereignty implicit the Strait of Hormuz.

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