Trump spoke to Bloomberg, CBS, Axios and the New York Post in one morning. He claimed Iran agreed to an "unlimited" nuclear suspension, to hand over its enriched uranium, and to a weekend deal.
None of it was true. A near-deal collapsed within hours — CNN. 1/
Trump told Bloomberg Iran agreed to an "unlimited" suspension of enrichment.
He told CBS Tehran "agreed to everything" and would hand over its uranium. He told Axios a deal would come "in the next day or two." Sources said Iran had not agreed to those terms. 2/
Source familiar with the talks, to CNN: "The Iranians didn't appreciate POTUS negotiating through social media and making it appear as if they had signed off on issues they hadn't yet agreed to."
Trump officials privately told CNN the commentary damaged the talks. 3/
Iran's foreign ministry: "Enriched uranium is as sacred to us as Iranian soil and will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances."
Hours earlier, Trump said US personnel would "go down and get it" with the Iranians and bring the stockpile to the United States. 4/
The ceasefire cracked further on Sunday.
The USS Spruance, a US guided-missile destroyer, fired into the engine room of Iranian cargo ship Touska and seized it in the Gulf of Oman. Iran's military vowed to retaliate against "US armed piracy." 5/
Trump demands no enrichment, indefinitely. Iran proposed a 10-year pause followed by a decade of low-level enrichment.
The US earlier offered 20 years. Iran countered with 5. Washington rejected that. 6/
Under discussion: the US unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets in exchange for Tehran handing over its 400 kg stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium.
Trump spent years attacking Obama for the same move. He denied the report: "We are not paying 10 cents." 7/
The ceasefire deadline keeps moving.
Trump announced it at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 7. He then told Bloomberg it ends "Wednesday evening Washington time" — an extra 24 hours. Asked five times if he would extend it, he gave three different answers. 8/
Talks are now set for Wednesday morning in Islamabad.
Vance, Witkoff and Kushner lead the US delegation. Trump calls a further extension "highly unlikely." After Wednesday: accept an imperfect deal, or blow up Iranian bridges and power plants — a possible war crime. 9X
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