White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales was quoted as saying that Iran’s government knows that its “current reality is not sustainable” and that anyone who “thinks Iran has reconstituted its military is either delusional or a mouthpiece” for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, triggering retaliation from Tehran against Israel as well as US allies in the Gulf, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
A two-week ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but subsequent talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement.
The truce was later extended indefinitely by Trump. Since then, Islamabad has been working to revive the stalled diplomacy.
Trump rejected Iran’s latest response to a US proposal to permanently end the war, calling it “totally unacceptable.”
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