“It’s unbelievably weak,” the president told reporters when asked if the ceasefire with Iran remains in place for now.
Trump referred to the counteroffer as a “piece of garbage” and said he did not even finish reading it.
Iran reportedly demanded that the country have sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, war reparations and for the U.S. sanctions to end.
Later Monday, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the nation's top negotiator with the U.S., argued there is "no alternative," but for Washington to "accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal."
"Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another," he wrote in a post on social platform X. "The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it."
After rejecting the Iranian proposal, the Pentagon on Monday disclosed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine, saying it arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on Sunday.
“The port visit demonstrates U.S. capability, flexibility and continuing commitment to its NATO allies,” the Sixth Fleet said in a press release. “Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are undetectable launch platforms for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad.”
