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Iranian media said connected Sunday (May 17, 2026) that the United States had failed to marque immoderate factual concessions successful its latest effect to Iran's projected docket for negotiations to extremity the war.
The Fars news bureau said Washington had presented a five-point database which included a request for Iran to support lone 1 atomic tract successful cognition and transportation its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to the United States.
Iran-Israel war updates connected May 17, 2026
The U.S. besides refused to merchandise "even 25%" of Iran's frozen assets overseas oregon wage immoderate reparations for the harm inflicted connected Iran during the warfare which broke retired connected February 28, according to Fars.
The study added that the U.S. had conditioned the cessation of hostilities connected each fronts connected the commencement of negotiations.
The Mehr news agency, meanwhile, said: "The United States, offering nary tangible concessions, wants to get concessions that it failed to get during the war, which volition pb to an impasse successful the negotiations."
In its proposal, Iran had called for an extremity of the warfare connected each fronts including Israel's run successful Lebanon, arsenic good arsenic a halt to the U.S. naval blockade connected Iranian ports successful spot since April 13.
It besides called for lifting each of the U.S. sanctions and the merchandise of Iranian assets frozen overseas nether longstanding U.S. sanctions, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry successful a property league past week.
Fars said the Iranian connection had emphasised that Tehran would proceed to negociate the strategical Strait of Hormuz, a captious vigor conduit which it has mostly kept closed since the commencement of the war.
On Sunday (May 17, 2026), Iranian equipped forces spokesperson Abolfazl Shekarchi warned U.S. President Donald Trump against restarting attacks connected Iran.
"The hopeless American president should cognize that if his threats are carried retired and Islamic Iran is attacked again, his country's resources and subject volition beryllium confronted with unprecedented, offensive, astonishing and tumultuous scenarios," helium said, according to authorities television.
Similarly, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei warned against attacking Iranian lipid infrastructure.
"If Iranian lipid is harmed, Iran volition instrumentality measures that volition forestall the United States and the satellite from accessing lipid from the portion for an extended period," helium said, according to the quality bureau ISNA.
