US President Donald Trump rejects Iran's proposal to delay nuclear discussions until the conflict ends, while Tehran faces internal leadership challenges. The war has disrupted global trade, energy markets, and strained US-European relations. Iran seeks alternative trade routes amid a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while oil prices surge.
Iran wants to set aside discussion of its nuclear programme until the conflict is concluded, but Trump wants nuclear issues dealt with from the outset.
An Iranian newspaper with a cartoon depicting US President Donald Trump, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on Apr 5, 2026. via REUTERS) Add CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results.conflict were at an impasse on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump unhappy with the latest proposal from Tehran, which he said had informed the US it was in a"state of collapse" and was figuring out its leadership situation.
's most recent offer for resolving the two-month war would set aside discussion of its nuclear programme until the conflict was concluded and shipping disputes resolved. But Trump wants nuclear issues dealt with from the outset, a US official briefed on Trump's Monday meeting with his advisers said.has just informed us that they are in a 'State of Collapse'.
They want us to 'Open the Hormuz Strait,' as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation .
"has largely blocked all shipping apart from its own from the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for global energy supplies, since the war began on Feb 28. This month, the US began blockadingThe Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials, that the president had instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran's ports.
Hopes of reviving peace efforts in a conflict that has killed thousands, thrown energy markets into turmoil and disrupted global trade routes have receded since Trump last weekend scrapped a visit by his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to mediator Pakistan.no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of power, which may be hardening Tehran's negotiating stance.
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war, and the elevation of his wounded son, Mojtaba, to replace him as supreme leader, has handed more power to hardline commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,ian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the proposal carried by Araqchi to Islamabad over the weekend envisioned talks in stages.
's 2015 nuclear deal with the United States and other powers, which had sharply curtailed Tehran's nuclear programme. Trump unilaterally withdrew from that accord in his first term. Now he faces domestic pressure to end a war for which he has given the US public shifting rationales. Trump's approval rating fell to the lowest level of his current term, as Americans increasingly soured on his handling of the cost of living and the unpopular war, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The poll showed 34 per cent of Americans approve of Trump's performance, down from 36 per cent in the prior survey. In the latest sign of strains between Trump and European allies, he said in a social media post that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz"doesn’t know what he’s talking about" regarding's leadership was humiliating the US and that he did not see what exit strategy the Trump administration was pursuing.
But Britain's King Charles told the US Congress on Tuesday that despite uncertainty and conflict in Europe and the Middle East, the UK and the US,"whatever our differences", will always be staunch allies united in defending democracy. He spoke at a time of deep divisions between the two long-time partners over the war with With the warring sides still seemingly far apart, oil prices resumed their upward march, with Brent crude rising nearly 3 per cent to around US$111 a barrel.
The World Bank forecast energy prices would surge by 24 per cent in 2026 to their highest level since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago, if the most acute disruptions caused by theian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told state media on Tuesday that Tehran was using northern, eastern and western trade corridors that did not rely on Gulf ports to neutralise the blockade's effects. Between 125 and 140 ships usually crossed in and out of the Strait of Hormuz daily before the war, but only seven have done so in the past day, according to Kpler ship-tracking data and satellite analysis from SynMax.
None of them were carrying oil bound for the global market. Also on Tuesday, the US said it was imposing sanctions on 35 entities and individuals for their role in Iran's shadow banking system. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also warned any firm making"toll" payments to the Iranian government or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for passage through the Strait of Hormuz would face sanctions.
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