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Confusion over competing United States and Iranian proposals to end the war is deepening uncertainty about the fragile two-week ceasefire between the longtime foes, with officials presenting sometimes differing accounts of what has been agreed.<\/p>\n
At the centre of the dispute is an Iranian 10-point plan, which is the basis for the upcoming negotiations with the US in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, this weekend. President Donald Trump has called the plan \u201cworkable\u201d, despite initially handing Iran a 15-point plan that Tehran dismissed as \u201cmaximalist\u201d.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n However, hours after the ceasefire, US officials, including Trump, offered mixed responses to Iran\u2019s proposal and what Washington understood the key points of the document to be.<\/p>\n Vice President JD Vance dismissed the publicised version as little more than a \u201crandom yahoo in Iran submitting it to public access television\u201d.<\/p>\n Adding to the confusion, the Persian version of the plan notably diverges from the English one on a key sticking point between Washington and Tehran \u2013 Iran\u2019s right to enrich uranium.<\/p>\n The Trump administration presented Iran with what officials described as a 15-point framework aimed at ending the war, and potentially achieving a permanent end to hostilities between the longtime foes.<\/p>\n While the full details have not been publicly released, reports by US media outlets and others included the following elements:<\/p>\n Donald Trump on Wednesday said that \u201cmany of the 15 points\u201d in the proposal had been agreed upon, signalling optimism about a broader deal.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are, and will be, talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran,\u201d the US president added.<\/p>\n However, Iran rejected the US framework, with its Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei confirming that Tehran had received messages from the US via intermediaries. He dismissed Washington\u2019s demands as \u201cmaximalist\u201d and \u201cillogical\u201d.<\/p>\n Tehran advanced its own positions in a 10-point counterproposal, which included demands of compensation for damages suffered by Iran during the war, a commitment to non-aggression by the US, Iran retaining its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, and acceptance of Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment.<\/p>\n Trump on Wednesday said the US has received a 10-point proposal from Iran, which he called a \u201cworkable basis on which to negotiate\u201d.<\/p>\n However, later in the day, confusion over what the official US position was started to become apparent.<\/p>\n Trump turned to his Truth Social platform to attack those he accused of spreading inaccurate accounts of supposed agreements.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is only one group of meaningful \u2018POINTS\u2019 that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these Negotiations,\u201d Trump said, without providing details. \u201cThese are the POINTS that are the basis on which we agreed to a CEASEFIRE.\u201d<\/p>\n The US president, in a separate post, said there will be \u201cno enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear \u2018Dust’\u201d.<\/p>\n White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed certain reports about the Iranian proposal and said that Trump would reject any uranium enrichment by Tehran.<\/p>\n \u201cThe president\u2019s red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed,\u201d Leavitt told reporters. While Iran says it is not seeking nuclear weapons, it insists on enriching its own uranium as a national right.<\/p>\n Moreover, Leavitt said Iran\u2019s initial 10-point proposal was \u201cliterally thrown in the garbage\u201d by Trump\u2019s team, but Tehran later put forward a revised \u201cmore reasonable and entirely different\u201d plan, one which could be aligned with Trump\u2019s own 15-point proposal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s second-in-command, Vance, dismissed the publicised version as little more than a \u201crandom yahoo in Iran submitting it to public access television\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do; we concern ourselves with what they actually do,\u201d he added in remarks made to reporters in Budapest.<\/p>\n He said he had seen at least three different drafts of the proposals. \u201cThe first 10-point proposal was something that was submitted, and we think, frankly, was probably written by ChatGPT,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n In short, yes. At least two different versions of that same plan appear to exist, one in English and the other in Persian.<\/p>\n In the Persian version, made public by Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, it said the \u201cUS has, in principle, committed to\u201d a series of demands, most notably the \u201cacceptance of enrichment\u201d, signalling that any deal must recognise Iran\u2019s right to continue enriching uranium.<\/p>\n However, this phrase was allegedly omitted from the English-language version.<\/p>\n Iran has consistently framed uranium enrichment as a sovereign right, while the Trump administration and its ally Israel call the demand a non-starter and a red line.<\/p>\n For years, Tehran has maintained that its nuclear activities are strictly civilian and that it has no plans to build nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n In 2015, it reached an agreement with the US to curb its nuclear programme in return for relief from sanctions. In 2018, however, Trump pulled Washington out of that landmark accord and reimposed sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Confusion over competing United States and Iranian proposals to end the war is deepening uncertainty about the fragile two-week ceasefire between the longtime foes, with officials presenting sometimes differing accounts of what has been agreed. 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What was the US\u2019s 15-point plan, and what was Iran\u2019s response?<\/h2>\n
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How has the US reacted to the 10-point proposal?<\/h2>\n
Are there different versions of Iran\u2019s 10-point plan?<\/h2>\n
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