On this image obtained from Iran’s ISNA information company and brought on Might 2, 2026, the Gambia-flagged tanker vessel Bili is pictured anchored within the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. (Photograph by Amirhossein KHORGOOEI / ISNA / AFP through Getty Photographs) /
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President Donald Trump on Sunday soundly rejected Iran’s counterproposal to finish the struggle with the U.S. and Israel.
“I’ve simply learn the response from Iran’s so-called “Representatives.” I do not prefer it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” the president stated in a Reality Social submit.
Iran had despatched a proposal to the U.S. negotiators via mediators in Pakistan, stressing the necessity to finish the struggle on all fronts and to carry sanctions on Tehran, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim information company stated on Sunday, citing an knowledgeable supply.
The proposal emphasizes the need of lifting sanctions by the U.S. Workplace of International Belongings Management on Iranian oil gross sales throughout a 30-day interval and ending the naval blockade on Iran, Tasnim added.
The Wall Road Journal reported additional particulars of Iran’s proposal, noting that Iran didn’t comply with U.S. calls for relating to its nuclear program and stockpile of extremely enriched uranium.
As an alternative, Tehran referred to as for separate nuclear negotiations and for a few of its extremely enriched uranium to be diluted and the remainder despatched to a 3rd nation. The uranium can be returned to Iran if the U.S. exits the deal, the Journal stated.
As well as, Iran demanded that the U.S. finish its blockade of Iranian ports, whereas Tehran would, in return, open the Strait of Hormuz to industrial site visitors.
Netanyahu says struggle is ‘not over’
In a taped interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” set to air afterward Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the struggle with Iran is “not over,” because the U.S. and Israel nonetheless purpose to deliver an finish to Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“There’s nonetheless nuclear materials, enriched uranium that must be taken out of Iran,” he stated. “There may be nonetheless enrichment websites that should be dismantled, there’s nonetheless proxies that Iran helps, there are ballistic missiles that they nonetheless need to produce … there’s work to be completed.”
Pressed for a way the U.S. and Israel would take away the nuclear materials, Netanyahu stated: “You go in, and you’re taking it out.”
Tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz
A Qatari pure gasoline tanker crossed the strait on Sunday for the primary time for the reason that begin of the Iran struggle, heading for Pakistan, whereas Washington continued to attend for Tehran’s response to its newest proposals to start peace talks.
After some 48 hours of relative calm following sporadic clashes final week which have shaken a month-old ceasefire, Kuwait detected a number of hostile drones in its airspace early on Sunday, authorities stated.
However the QatarEnergy-operated provider Al Kharaitiyat handed safely via the strait and was heading for Pakistan’s Port Qasim, based on information from the transport analytics agency Kpler, making it the primary Qatari vessel carrying liquefied pure gasoline to cross the strait for the reason that U.S. and Israel began the struggle on Feb 28.
Sources stated earlier that the switch, which provided a modicum of reduction to Pakistan after a wave of energy blackouts brought on by a halt to important gasoline imports, had been accepted by Iran to construct confidence with Qatar and Pakistan, each mediators within the struggle.
As well as, a Panama-flagged bulk provider certain for Brazil that had beforehand tried to transit the strait on Might 4, handed via, utilizing a route designated by Iran’s armed forces, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim information company reported on Sunday.
Trump below strain to finish struggle forward of China go to
With Trump as a result of go to China this week, there was mounting strain to attract a line below the struggle, which has ignited a worldwide vitality disaster and poses a rising menace to the world economic system.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks throughout a Mom’s Day luncheon within the Rose Backyard of the White Home on Might 8, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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However regardless of diplomatic efforts to interrupt the impasse between the 2 sides and the passage of the Qatari gasoline tanker, the menace to transport lanes and the area’s economies remained excessive.
On Sunday, the United Arab Emirates stated it intercepted two drones coming from Iran, whereas Qatar condemned a drone assault that hit a cargo ship coming from Abu Dhabi in its waters. Kuwait stated its air defenses had handled hostile drones that entered its airspace.
Tehran has largely blocked non-Iranian transport via the slim strait, which, earlier than the struggle, carried one-fifth of the world’s oil provide and has emerged as a central strain level within the struggle.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al‑Thani, who mentioned Pakistan’s mediation efforts to finish the struggle with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Miami on Saturday, instructed Iran’s International Minister Abbas Araqchi that utilizing the strait as a “strain software” would solely deepen the disaster.
He instructed Araqchi in a cellphone name that freedom of navigation shouldn’t be compromised, the Qatari overseas ministry stated on Sunday, with out specifying the precise date of the decision. Turkey’s overseas minister additionally spoke to Araqchi, an official within the Turkish overseas ministry stated.
Iranian lawmakers have stated they’re drafting a invoice to formalize Iran’s administration of the strait, with clauses together with forbidden passage to vessels of “hostile states.”
Current days have seen the most important flare-ups in preventing in and across the strait since a ceasefire started a month in the past: the UAE got here below renewed assault on Friday and sporadic clashes have been reported between Iranian forces and U.S. vessels within the strait.
Clashes have additionally continued in southern Lebanon between Israel and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, regardless of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire introduced on April 16.
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah reignited on March 2 when the Lebanese group opened hearth after Tehran got here below U.S.-Israeli assault. The most recent talks between Israel and Lebanon are as a result of begin in Washington on Might 14.
U.S. berates allies for not serving to to reopen strait
Washington imposed a blockade on Iranian vessels final month, however Tehran has thus far taken its time earlier than responding to calls to finish a struggle that surveys present is unpopular with U.S. voters dealing with ever-higher gasoline costs.
A CIA evaluation indicated Iran wouldn’t undergo extreme financial strain from a U.S. blockade for about one other 4 months, based on a U.S. official acquainted with the matter.
A senior intelligence official characterised as false the “claims” in regards to the CIA evaluation, which was first reported by the Washington Put up.
The U.S. has additionally discovered little worldwide help within the battle, with NATO allies refusing calls to ship ships to open the strait and not using a full peace deal and an internationally mandated mission.
Britain, which has been working with France on a proposal to make sure protected transit via the strait as soon as the scenario stabilizes, stated on Saturday it was deploying a warship to the Center East in preparation for such a multinational mission.
— CNBC contributed to this report.
