US President Donald Trump gets off Air Force One in Miami.Image: keystone
May 3, 2026, 2:34 p.mMay 3, 2026, 2:34 p.m
US President Donald Trump has announced that he is examining a plan submitted by Iran to end the war. But he couldn’t imagine that this would be acceptable, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, without going into details. Iran has “not yet paid a sufficiently high price for what it has done to humanity and the world over the last 47 years.” More than two months after the start of the war, a solution still seems far away.
Trump warned that there was still the possibility of attacking Iran again if, in his eyes, the Iranian leadership misbehaved. The US President has repeatedly made similar threats in recent weeks, sometimes with much harsher words. Israeli media reported on Sunday that the military was on heightened alert, although other reports said no new military activity was expected.
On Friday it became known that Iran had handed over a new proposal to mediators in Pakistan. The state news agency Irna reported this without going into the content. So far, the warring parties have not reached a consensus on any proposal sent from one side to the other.
These are the Iranian demands
As the Iranian Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported, the Iranian proposal includes 14 points and is a response to a US proposal. The Iranian proposal calls for “an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon,” it said. There is currently a fragile ceasefire between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia and Israel. In the past few days the fighting had increased significantly again.
According to Tasnim, the proposal addresses guarantees against military aggression and the withdrawal of US military forces from the region around Iran. Frozen Iranian assets should also be released. It is also about lifting sanctions and introducing a “new mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz”. The strait, which is important for the global economy, is currently largely blocked for merchant ships.
That’s what Trump says
At the airport in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump told reporters that when it came to Iran, things were going very well for the United States. “They want a deal.” Asked whether he would like to eliminate Iran’s remaining missile production capabilities, Trump said: “Yes, I would like to eliminate them.” Otherwise, this would be a start for Iran to be able to rebuild it.
Trump also declared the hostilities in Iran to be over in a letter to the US Congress on Friday. A ceasefire, which Trump extended unilaterally and without a time limit, still applies.
The USA and Israel began their war against Iran on February 28th. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel and Arab states in the Gulf. A ceasefire has been in effect since the beginning of April. In order to end the war, Washington is demanding that Iran’s nuclear program be stopped in addition to the release of highly enriched uranium. Washington also wants to impose limits on Iran’s ballistic missile development program.
US arms deliveries to partners in war
Meanwhile, the US State Department approved billions in arms sales to Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio approved eight arms deliveries worth over 25 billion US dollars (around 21.3 billion euros) by emergency decision, a spokesman for the ministry confirmed to the German Press Agency. Due to the declared emergency, unlike usual, no approval from Congress is required.
Since the beginning of the war, Iran has fired thousands of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at US partners in the region, the statement said. Most of them were successfully intercepted. The ministry also justified the urgency of the approval by saying that the partners “are currently under attack”.
Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, viewed the move as a defiance of Congress. Of the exports listed, only one concerns defense goods that could be exported immediately. “The government is using the pretext of an emergency declaration to push through sales that have no urgent connection to current conflicts,” he said.
Fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah
Meanwhile, the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon remains fragile. The Israeli military announced on the Telegram platform in the evening that numerous terrorist infrastructure facilities had been attacked in southern Lebanon on Saturday and that “terrorists” who had operated in the immediate vicinity of Israeli soldiers had been eliminated. The attacks destroyed 70 Hezbollah military structures, including weapons depots. (sda/dpa)