Iran Responds to Latest U.S. Plan to End War

Hours after Iranian state media said on Sunday that Tehran had formally responded to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war, President Trump called it “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” His reaction cast doubt on whether the stalemate between the two countries was any closer to being broken. The Iranian announcement, which came after a tense week of attacks and counterattacks in the Persian Gulf rattled the fragile truce, had provided few details. Mr. Trump, in a post on his social media platform, wrote: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” His comments came after CBS’s “60 Minutes” released clips from an interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in which he said that the conflict with Iran was “not over.” He said that was in part because Iran had yet to give up the material that Israel feared could one day be made into a nuclear weapon. Negotiators for Iran had passed their response to Pakistan mediators, who have been brokering the talks, according to Iran’s state broadcaster. Iranian officials have said the two countries are working on a short-term agreement that would pause fighting for another 30 days and end Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil and gas shipping route in the Persian Gulf. The officials said the United States and Iran would try to reach a comprehensive deal during the monthlong lull. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. …