The president Donald Trump dismissed Iran's most recent ceasefire counterproposal on Monday as «totally unacceptable» and reaffirmed that the United States will achieve "a complete victory" over Iran, rejecting any pressure to concede in the negotiations.
“They think I will get tired of this or that I will get bored, or that I will feel some pressure, but there is no pressure, no pressure at all,” Trump declared. “We are going to have a complete victory.”
The statements come a day after Iran sent its counter-response to the U.S. peace proposal through Pakistani intermediaries, excluding any discussion on uranium enrichment, a condition that Washington considers non-negotiable.
Trump described the Iranian military state as devastated: "Their navy is dead. They had 159 vessels. Now they have zero, except for the small fast boats that we are eliminating at a rate of eight per day. They have no air force, no air defense, no radar."
The leader also noted that "first-level, second-level, and mid-third-level Iranian leaders have been eliminated," and yet Iran is returning to negotiations with proposals he described as "stupid": "No one would accept them, even if Obama had accepted them. Biden would have accepted them."
The central axis of the U.S. position is categorical: Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon. "If they had one, the Middle East would disappear, Israel would disappear, and probably Europe would be next," Trump warned.
The conflict erupted on February 28, 2026, with the launch of Operation Epic Fury, a joint attack by the U.S. and Israel that eliminated the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and destroyed much of Iran's military infrastructure.
After 38 days of hostilities, a ceasefire was reached on April 8, mediated by Pakistan and contingent upon the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
However, subsequent negotiations have repeatedly failed. The first round in Islamabad, led by Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, collapsed after 21 hours due to irreconcilable positions: the U.S. demanded the complete dismantling of the nuclear program and a 20-year moratorium on uranium enrichment; Iran proposed a five-year pause and is claiming 270 billion dollars in war reparations.
On May 6th, the U.S. presented a one-page memorandum with 14 points that included a nuclear moratorium, the lifting of sanctions, and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian response came on May 10th and was immediately rejected.
Trump also referred to the internal protests in Iran, stating that the regime killed 42,000 unarmed protesters in the past two months. However, the exact figure has not been officially confirmed.
Regarding the nuclear program, Trump revealed that the Iranian site was so destroyed by the bombings that "only one or two countries in the world could extract" the resulting material: "You and China are the only two countries in the world that could get it out."
Trump also recalled that it was he who ended the JCPOA nuclear agreement signed by Barack Obama, which he described as "the worst deal in the history of our country's defense," and which would have allowed Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon in a matter of years.
«Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and it will not have one. This has lasted for 47 years. Other presidents and leaders with the power to act should have done so, but they did not,» Trump concluded.
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