Overview
- Trump said Friday he was not satisfied with Iran’s new proposal sent via Pakistani mediators and he rejected it as insufficient.
- The White House position shifted Saturday as Trump posted that he would review the reported 14-point plan, though he doubted it would be acceptable.
- Iran escalated its warnings, with a senior commander calling a restart of war probable on Saturday and IRGC intelligence on Sunday casting U.S. options as an impossible assault or a bad deal.
- The April 8 ceasefire still holds, yet Washington is enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports while Tehran restricts the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point that once carried about a fifth of global oil.
- Trump told Congress Friday that hostilities were terminated to satisfy the 60‑day legal clock, as tensions with Europe grew with a planned 5,000‑troop pullout from Germany and a threat to raise EU auto tariffs.