{"id":906308,"date":"2026-05-16T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/iran-rejects-pakistan-mediated-truce-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:27:31","slug":"iran-rejects-pakistan-mediated-truce-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/iran-rejects-pakistan-mediated-truce-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran rejects Pakistan-mediated truce deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left) and Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan\u2019s chief of Defense Forces and Army Staff, in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 25, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok\/White House.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Iran has rejected Pakistan\u2019s two-stage proposal for ending the war and opening the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters<\/i> reported on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Iran emphasized \u2060the need for a permanent end to the conflict, its state-run IRNA news agency said.<\/p>\n

The United States and Iran had received proposals to halt hostilities and \u200creopen the Strait. The proposed agreement called for an immediate truce followed by a comprehensive deal.<\/p>\n

Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan\u2019s chief of Defense Forces and Army Staff, has been in contact \u201call night long\u201d with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, a source told Reuters<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Esmail Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Monday that \u201cwe have formulated our own responses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran does not hesitate to clearly express what it considers its legitimate demands, and doing so should not be interpreted as a sign of compromise, but rather as a reflection of its confidence in defending its positions,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Baghaei added that negotiations were \u201cincompatible with ultimatums and threats to commit war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Axios<\/i> first reported on Sunday that regional mediators, including Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey, were pushing a 45-day ceasefire as part of a two-phase deal that could lead to a permanent end to the fighting.<\/p>\n

A U.S. official told Axios<\/i> the Trump administration passed several proposals to Tehran over recent days, but that so far, Iranian officials hadn\u2019t accepted them.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News<\/i> on Sunday that if the Iranian regime doesn\u2019t strike a deal by Tuesday, he would consider \u201cblowing everything up and taking over the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country,\u201d the president said in a conversation with Fox<\/i> foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Trump added that those who are negotiating on behalf of the regime have been granted amnesty from elimination so they can continue the talks on Monday.<\/p>\n

Yingst spoke with Trump shortly after the president warned Tehran in a Truth Social post that \u201ctime is running out\u201d to make a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cTuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F**kin\u2019 Strait, you crazy bastards, or you\u2019ll be living in Hell \u2013 JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,\u201d wrote the president.<\/p>\n

Trump later on Sunday apparently named the specific time by which the Iranians must open the Strait of Hormuz, extending his previous deadline to Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

His 10-day ultimatum was set to expire on Monday, but the cryptic post on Truth Social<\/a><\/span> read: \u201cTuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left) and Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan\u2019s chief of Defense Forces and Army Staff, in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 25, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok\/White House. ( Apr. 6, 2026 \/ JNS ) Iran has rejected Pakistan\u2019s two-stage proposal for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149541,23407],"tags":[149540,6700],"class_list":["post-906308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pakistan-mediated","category-rejects","tag-pakistan-mediated","tag-rejects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}