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A senior Iranian military officer who has yet to be neutralized, said on Saturday that renewed fighting with the U.S. was "likely," hours after President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with an Iranian negotiating proposal.
Iran dropped the new draft on mediator Pakistan Thursday evening, state media reported, without bothering to tell us what was actually in it.
The war, which the United States and Israel kicked off in late February, has been on hold since April 8. One round of peace talks in Pakistan has already flopped since then.
"At this moment I'm not satisfied with what they're offering," Trump told so called reporters, blaming the stall on "tremendous discord" within Iran's leadership.
"Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever or do we want to try and make a deal?" he added, saying he would "prefer not" to take the first option "on a human basis".
On Saturday morning, Mohammad Jafar Asadi, some big shot in the Iranian military's Central Command who has not yet been sent to his goats, announced that "a renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely," according to quotes in Iran's Fars News Agency.
"Evidence has shown that the United States is not committed to any promises or agreements," he added.
Iran's judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Friday that his country had "never shied away from negotiations," but would not accept an "imposition" of peace terms. Sure, buddy.
The White House is keeping the details of the latest Iranian proposal under wraps, but Axios reported that U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff tossed in amendments that put Tehran's nuclear program back on the table.
The changes include demands that Iran not move enriched uranium from bombed sites or restart anything there while talks are going on.
News of the Iranian proposal briefly knocked oil prices down nearly five percent. They are still sitting about 50 percent above pre-war levels, thanks to the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has kept its stranglehold on the strait since the war started, cutting off major flows of oil, gas, and fertilizer to the world economy. The United States has answered with its own blockade of Iranian ports.
Speaking at a rally on Friday, Trump said "we're like pirates" while describing an earlier helicopter raid on an oil tanker caught in the blockade.
Despite the ceasefire in the Gulf, fighting continues in Lebanon, where Israel has been hammering targets despite a separate truce with the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists.
Lebanon's health ministry said 13 people were killed in strikes in the south, including in the town of Habboush, where the Israeli military had issued an evacuation warning.
Meanwhile, Washington announced late Friday it had approved major arms sales to its Middle East allies, including a $4 billion Patriot missile deal with Qatar and nearly $1 billion in precision weapons systems to Israel.
Back in Washington, lawmakers are tangled up in a legal fight over whether Trump missed a deadline to get congressional approval for the war.
Administration officials say the ceasefire hits the pause button on that 60-day limit. Democrats, naturally, disagree because, you know . . . Trump.
Trump is facing increasing pressure at home, with inflation climbing, no decisive win yet, and midterm elections coming up.
"There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran since April 7, 2026," Trump said in letters to congressional leaders, adding that the hostilities "have terminated".
In Iran, the economic pain from the war is getting worse by the day.
Washington slapped new sanctions on three Iranian currency firms and warned others not to pay the "toll" Iran is demanding for safe passage through Hormuz.
The U.S. military says its blockade of Iranian ports has already halted $6 billion in Iranian oil exports. Inflation in Iran, which was bad enough before the war, has now shot past 50 percent."Everyone is trying to endure it, but... they are falling apart," 40-year-old Amir, a Tehran resident, told an AFP reporter based outside the country.
"We still have not seen much of the economic effects because everyone had a bit of savings. They had some gold and dollars for a rainy day. When they run out, things will change."
In other signs that everything is going great in the Islamic Republic, Iranian authorities executed two men on Saturday who were convicted of spying for Israel. This is just the latest in a fresh wave of executions.
One of the men was found guilty of helping Israel during last June's 12-day war.
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