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07.47 BST
Trump
says Iran ceasefire is on ‘massive life support’
We are
restarting our live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran after Donald Trump
said the ceasefire was “on life support” after rejecting Tehran’s peace
proposal, calling it “totally unacceptable”.
Referring
to the ceasefire in force since 7 April, Trump said: “I would call it the
weakest, right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us – I didn’t
even finish reading it.
“I would
say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and
says: ‘Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.’”
Shortly
after Trump’s comments, Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, who
has been chief negotiator in talks, wrote on X that his country’s armed forces
were “ready to deliver a well-deserved response to any aggression”.
A man
walks past a large banner depicting Iran’s current supreme leader Mojtaba
Khamenei and his predecessor and late father Ali Khamenei along a street in
Tehran.
Trump is
reportedly considering a resumption in major military attacks as he is
frustrated with the stalled negotiations and the continued closure of the
strait of Hormuz (to countries “hostile” to Iran), which has caused global
energy prices to surge, including in the US where gas and fertiliser costs have
soared.
Sources
have told CNN that the US president is growing increasingly impatient with the
division within the Iranian leadership making it hard for Washington to force
Tehran into concessions on nuclear talks. Trump is unlikely to make the
decision before he leaves to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for his
diplomatic visit to China later this week, the sources said.
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