{"id":49310,"date":"2026-05-03T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=49310"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:21:57","slug":"iran-hasnt-paid-enough-price-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2026\/05\/03\/iran-hasnt-paid-enough-price-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hasn\u2019t paid enough Price- Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump has said he is reviewing the latest peace proposal from Tehran, but cast doubt on the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough by claiming Iran had not yet \u201cpaid a big enough price\u201d for its past wrongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s remarks came amid growing speculation over the possibility of another round of US strikes against Iran<\/a> aimed at forcing concessions, including a halt to the country\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli press reports quoted senior military officials as saying they were preparing for possible US strikes on Iran, and the likelihood that Tehran would hit back against Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior Israeli officer who briefed reporters on Friday said any peace agreement without a cessation of Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment programme and the surrender of its\u00a0stockpile of highly enriched uranium\u00a0would be considered a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Iran, the military-backed Fars news agency quoted a senior official as saying a return to all-out conflict was \u201clikely\u201d four weeks after a ceasefire was brokered by Pakistan. Pakistani efforts to resume peace talks in Islamabad, after a first round broke up without agreement<\/a>, have failed as each side set preconditions that the other refused to fulfil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked on Saturday about the possibility of renewed hostilities, Trump said it was possible, adding: \u201cIf they misbehave, if they do something bad, but right now, we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspension of enrichment for a number of years, and the dilution or export of the stockpile, had been on the table in US-Iranian negotiations that had started when\u00a0Trump launched an attack on Iran on 28 February\u00a0alongside Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war has led to an additional crisis as both sides have imposed parallel blockades of the strait of Hormuz, the gateway for a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas supplies, as a means of exerting economic pressure to gain concessions, with dire implications for\u00a0energy prices and the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran presented a new 14-point proposal to the US via Pakistan on Friday, with a reported focus on the lifting of the blockades and a new mechanism for managing the strait. It also included the payment of compensation to Tehran for war damage, the lifting of sanctions and cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where\u00a0Israel continues to exchange fire with Hezbollah\u00a0despite a ceasefire having been declared by Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US president told reporters on Saturday that he had not yet seen the details of the new Iranian proposal, but would review the full text that day. Shortly afterwards, he posted a comment on social media saying he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump had already rejected an Iranian proposal, which was also Hormuz-focused, earlier in the week. His readiness to keep up a US blockade on all shipping using Iranian ports seriously complicates a planned visit later this month to China, Iran\u2019s biggest customer for oil, accounting for 80% of its exports, and representing about 13% of China\u2019s oil imports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intelligence wing of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps issued a statement via state television on Sunday, which said: \u201cTrump must choose between an impossible operation or a bad deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d. It also cited a \u201cshift in tone\u201d from China, Russia, and Europe towards Washington and what it called Iran\u2019s own \u201cdeadline\u201d on the blockade. It was unclear what deadline was being referred to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US has threatened to tighten its blockade by threatening to impose sanctions against shipping companies found to have made payments to Tehran to move their cargoes through the strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising petrol prices and a slowing global economy also pose a political threat to Trump as the US approaches congressional elections in November. A Democratic win in one or both chambers would weaken his presidency. Trump has so far shrugged off domestic concerns as he has become increasingly aggressive on the world stage \u2013 towards traditional adversaries and allies alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has signalled he is prepared to escalate a showdown with Germany over\u00a0critical remarks about the Iran war made by the country\u2019s chancellor, Friedrich Merz. After the\u00a0Pentagon said it would withdraw 5,000\u00a0of its roughly 40,000 troops stationed in Germany, Trump told reporters on Saturday: \u201cWe\u2019re going to cut way down. And we\u2019re cutting a lot further than 5,000.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did not provide a reason for the redeployment, which would trigger resistance from Congress by taking troop levels in Europe well below a minimum level stipulated by the legislature late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has said he is reviewing the latest peace proposal from Tehran, but cast doubt on the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough by claiming Iran had not yet \u201cpaid a big enough price\u201d for its past wrongs. Trump\u2019s remarks came amid growing speculation over the possibility of another round of US strikes against Iran aimed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5304,12283,1425,10767,6693,8440,5262,913,12246,5196,5494,6621,9127,6159,5491,66,10754,13036,10035,13157,1759,3095,9667,12998,5572,8000,6666,5441,3042,5396,9126,6719,10381,7574,3805,12103,10390,3174,3457,5713,5349,12972,5377,12151,7444,9178,184,6563,6348,11331,5251,2354,36,594],"class_list":["post-49310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-attack","tag-ceasefire","tag-chancellor","tag-conflict","tag-congress","tag-crisis","tag-cut","tag-democratic","tag-diplomatic","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-europe","tag-february","tag-fire","tag-gas","tag-germany","tag-hezbollah","tag-humanity","tag-islamabad","tag-islamic","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-merz","tag-military","tag-negotiations","tag-nuclear","tag-oil","tag-pakistan","tag-peace","tag-peace-talks","tag-pentagon","tag-petrol","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-prime-minister","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-social-media","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-surrender","tag-suspension","tag-tehran","tag-troops","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-uranium","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49311,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310\/revisions\/49311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}