Iranian Military Officer Warns Renewed Conflict With US Is Likely
Trump says not satisfied with Iranian negotiating proposal delivered to Pakistan, as mediator
Quick Look
- A senior Iranian military officer said Saturday that renewed fighting with the US is likely, hours after President Trump said he was not satisfied with Iran's negotiating proposal delivered to mediator Pakistan.
- The war launched by the US and Israel in late February has been on hold since April 8, with one failed round of peace talks having taken place in Pakistan.
AI-generated summary
A senior Iranian military officer said on Saturday that renewed fighting with the US was "likely", hours after President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with an Iranian negotiating proposal. Iran delivered the new draft to mediator Pakistan on Thursday evening, state media reported, without detailing its contents. The war, launched by the United States and Israel in late February, has been on hold since April 8, with one failed round of peace talks having taken place in Pakistan since then. "At this moment I'm not satisfied with what they're offering," Trump told reporters, blaming stalled talks 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, a senior figure in the Iranian military's central command, said "a renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely", in quotes published by Iran's Fars news agency.
