DONALD Trump has sent tougher peace terms back to Iran, as he says he is in “no hurry” to finalise a deal.
Thehas asked for several amendments his envoys thrashed out with their Iranian counterparts on Friday.
US President Donald Trump has sent tougher peace terms back to Iran Credit: Fox News
One of Iran’s nuclear sites that was blasted by US strikes
He is particularly keen to bolster several key points around Iran’s nuclear weapons, according to Axios .
The request has launched a between the parties that could take several days.
“Slowly but surely, we’re getting, I think, what we want,” Trump told his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in an interview on her Fox News show.
“I’d like to say I’m in a hurry, because you know what, gasoline prices are going to come tumbling down, but if you’re going to be in a hurry, you’re not going to make a good deal.”
Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, hit back on Sunday warning the US “cannot be trusted”.
Tehran will not agree to any deal with Washington unless it fully secures its own demands, he added.
Trump said on Friday he was meeting in the White House Situation Room to “make a final determination”.
He said: “Iran must agree that they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb.
Smoke rising from a US airstrike on Tehran on March 6, 2026 Credit: Getty
The Strait of Hormuz must be reopened by Iran as part of the peace deal, Trump said Credit: Reuters
“The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open, no tolls, for unrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions.”
But Iran has insisted the release of $12billion in frozen assets before engaging in substantive talks on its nuclear program.
The regime dismissed Trump’s earlier claims that its enriched uranium stockpile would be destroyed as “baseless”, according to Iranian media.
Tasnim news agency has said negotiations are ongoing with “both parties proposing amendments”.
“No agreement has yet been finalised, and it is possible that any agreement will be rejected,” it added.
It comes after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday the US is “more than capable” of resuming the war in the Middle East.
There are 50,000 US troops still stationed across the region and prepared to resume hostilities, he added.
Efforts to strike a deal were thrown into doubt earlier this week when the US struck a port in southern Iran which was met with retaliatory fire.
It came after Trump’s forces shot down four Iranian attack and blitzed a military site in Bandar Abbas that US officials said were preparing to launch a fifth UAV.
And at a Kuwaiti airbase on Saturday.
The deal would secure a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran that halted strikes in April.
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