The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, stated this Monday that peace negotiations with the United States continue with the exchange of proposals through Pakistan, amid renewed military threats from US President Donald Trump.

“The process continues through Pakistan,” Bagaei said at his weekly news conference in Tehran. The diplomat explained that after Trump publicly rejected a 14-point Iranian proposal on April 10, “the American side raised its own considerations” to the text and that it was transmitted to Tehran in recent days. “These proposals were reviewed over the past few days and, as announced yesterday, our own points were in turn presented to the American side,” Baghaei said.

Iran submitted a new proposal to Pakistan

Iranian media reported yesterday that Iran delivered a new proposal that Pakistan's Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, visiting the Persian country, will deliver to the United States. Baghaei did not go into the content of the proposals exchanged in recent days, but media such as the Fars agency reported that Washington has demanded that Tehran deliver 440 kilos of uranium enriched to 60%, the maintenance of a single nuclear facility, the refusal to pay war compensations and the unlocking of less than 25% of Iranian assets frozen abroad.

Tehran, for its part, has insisted on an end to the war on all fronts, that is, including Lebanon, the lifting of sanctions, the release of all frozen assets, war compensations and the recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. What the diplomat also insisted on is that “the issue of rights is not something on which we are willing to negotiate or compromise.”

Trump assured yesterday that Iran is running out of time to reach an agreement amid the ceasefire in force since the beginning of April and once again threatened the Islamic Republic with more attacks and ending the truce in force since April 8.