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Iran has accused the United States and Israel of violating the terms of the agreement for the two-week temporary ceasefire brokered by Pakistan.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Iranian Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that three clauses in their 10-point proposal had been breached.
Ghalibaf listed the non-compliance with “the first clause,” regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it was among Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s commitments.
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The lawmaker also mentioned the entry of an intruding drone into Iran’s airspace, which was destroyed in the city of Lar in Fars Province.
The third infraction, according to Ghalibaf, is the denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which he said was included in the sixth clause of the framework.
The official said with the “workable basis on which to negotiate” openly violated even before the negotiations began, a ceasefire or negotiations “is unreasonable.”
The White House dismissed Iran’s initial proposal on Wednesday, saying it was “fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.”
“It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Donald Trump and his negotiating team,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
The spokesperson said Iran had put forward a “more reasonable and entirely different condensed plan” after acknowledging the reality of the defeat they were facing.
Pakistan made a last-minute proposal Tuesday to avert catastrophic US attacks on Iran, hours ahead of a deadline set by President Donald Trump who warned a “whole civilization will die tonight”.
The White House said it was aware and would respond to the proposal by Pakistan, which has sought to mediate after more than five weeks of US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote on X.
He appealed directly to Trump to extend his deadline set for 8:00 PM Washington time (midnight GMT) by two weeks.
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In turn, he asked Iran to commit for two weeks to fulfilling Trump’s key demand — reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the vital gateway for global oil which Tehran closed in retaliation for the war.
The latest threats from Trump, shocking even by his own provocative standards, brought disbelief and warnings that he was encouraging genocide — potentially one day leading to war crimes charges against US servicemembers who comply.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The rhetoric was an escalation from a profanity-laden post two days earlier, on Easter Sunday, in which Trump threatened to destroy all bridges and power plants in the country of 90 million — a war crime unless proven that the sites are mostly for military use.
Pope Leo XIV said that “this threat against all the people of Iran” was “truly unacceptable”.
Speaking in Budapest, Vice President JD Vance said the United States had tools “that we so far haven’t decided to use” against Iran, without explaining further.
The White House later denied to AFP that Vance was alluding to nuclear weapons.
The United States and Israel were striking key infrastructure even before Trump’s deadline, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirming attacks on railways and bridges he said were “used by the Revolutionary Guards”.
The Israeli military also offered a rare statement of regret after it acknowledged damaging a synagogue in Tehran, saying it had been targeting a senior Iranian commander.
Iran, run by Shia Muslim clerics, is home to around 100 synagogues for its historic Jewish minority.
First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said Iran was prepared “for all scenarios” from the United States.
“No threat is beyond our preparedness and intelligence,” he added.
Infrastructure attacks reported by Iranian authorities Tuesday included a US-Israeli strike on a bridge outside the city of Qom and another on a rail bridge in central Iran that killed two people.
