{"id":2597748,"date":"2026-05-01T14:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-iran-peace-proposal-dont-know-who-their-leaders-are\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:42:18","slug":"trump-rejects-iran-peace-proposal-dont-know-who-their-leaders-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-iran-peace-proposal-dont-know-who-their-leaders-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rejects Iran peace proposal: &#8216;Don&#8217;t know who their leaders are&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-rejects-iran-peace-proposal-dont-know-who-their-leaders-are%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2597748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump says he isn\u2019t satisfied with Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-loses-4th-general-in-combat\/\" title=\"Russia Loses 4th General in Combat\">latest peace proposal<\/a>,which he received via Pakistani mediators,and he claims Iran\u2019s leadership is disorganized and internally divided over who has authority to negotiate with the United states.Trump also describes a pattern where different Iranian groups appear to replace one another, leaving them \u201cconfused\u201d about who leads.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media says Tehran prioritizes establishing \u201cenduring peace,\u201d contrasting with statements attributed to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei,whose public appearances have been absent since a Feb. 28 strike. Khamenei is portrayed as issuing strong rhetoric against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-jailed-over-islamist-killing-of-french-catholic-priest-during-mass\/\" title=\"Four Jailed Over Islamist Killing of French Catholic Priest During Mass\">foreign involvement<\/a>, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims he remains lucid and in full control, communicating through notes delivered by couriers.<\/p>\n<p>On the U.S. side, Trump\u2019s administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have signaled that any deal must prevent Iran from pursuing nuclear energy in ways that could enable a nuclear weapon. Rubio also argues that negotiations are slowed as Iranian officials must negotiate among themselves before agreeing on what can be offered or who should meet.<\/p>\n<p>The article further notes that Trump faces a legal deadline related to War Powers Resolution requirements for Operation epic fury, and that congressional approval may be needed to continue the campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> is \u201cnot happy\u201d with the latest peace proposal from Iranian negotiators, complaining that the country\u2019s leadership is \u201cdisjointed\u201d and \u201cvery argumentative with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Islamic Republic\u2019s<\/a> latest proposal, the details of which have not been made known, was passed to the White House via Pakistani mediators on Thursday evening. The president told the press on Friday that not only is he not satisfied with the proposal but that Tehran officials are disorganized and unable to agree on who is empowered to make deals with Washington.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4551430\/trump-raise-tariffs-european-cars-25-percent\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump to raise tariffs on European cars and trucks to 25%<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4551305\/trump-talks-retirees-florida-first-outing-since-whcd-shooting\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump talks to retirees in first outing since WHCA dinner shooting<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4549089\/is-todd-blanche-acing-attorney-general-job-interview\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Is Todd Blanche acing his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >attorney general job interview<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cOne says one thing, one says another. They\u2019re very confused,\u201d Trump said of his counterparts in Iran. \u201cObviously, their country has been frankly decimated. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Many of their soldiers, unfortunately, are gone. They\u2019ve got to come up with the right deal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cAt this moment, I\u2019m not satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he prepares to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, May 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iranian state news outlet IRNA reported Friday that Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei emphasized that \u201cestablishing a sustainable peace\u201d is among \u201cTehran\u2019s main priorities in negotiations with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment is staggeringly different from the recent rhetoric attributed to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mojtaba-khamenei\/\">Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>, the supreme leader of Iran who has remained unseen by the public since being wounded in the Feb. 28 strike that killed his father and predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe and our neighbors across the waters of the Persian Gulf and the [Gulf] of Oman share a common destiny. Foreigners who come from thousands of kilometers away to act with greed and malice there have no place in it \u2014 except at the bottom of its waters,\u201d a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4549083\/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-declares-us-only-place-persian-gulf-bottom-waters\/\">statement attributed to Khamenei<\/a> earlier this week reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims that the leader is lucid and exerting total control over the country that his office commands. Officials assert that he is communicating with his government and the Guard via handwritten notes, sealed in envelopes, and carried by couriers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has indicated that he believes Khamenei to be alive but severely injured \u2014 though he also says the Iranians are trying to \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4545608\/trump-iran-state-of-collapse\/\">figure out their leadership situation<\/a>,\u201d indicating that the supreme leader is not wielding the unilateral authority of his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey get close, and then a new group of people come in,\u201d Trump said Friday. \u201cThey don\u2019t know who their leaders are. They have no idea who their leaders are, but they\u2019re very confused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president, his negotiators, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have preemptively ruled out any proposal from Iran that would allow the country to continue its pursuit of nuclear energy that can be used for military purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very experienced negotiators, and we have to ensure that any deal that is made, any agreement that is made, is one that definitively prevents them from sprinting towards a nuclear weapon at any point,\u201d Rubio said this week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Girls sing a song as they show the movement of missiles with their hands next to the portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, left, late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, center, and supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a state-organized rally celebrating the birthday of Imam Reza, the 8th Shiite Muslims\u2019 imam, and supporting the supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The administration has signaled that proposals from Tehran have gotten incrementally better as the negotiations have dragged on, but that disorganization of leadership has complicated the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the impediments here is that our negotiators aren\u2019t just negotiating with Iranians,\u201d Rubio <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4545459\/after-white-house-strategy-session-trump-said-to-be-unimpressed-with-irans-latest-offer-to-open-strait\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThose Iranians then have to negotiate with other Iranians in order to figure out what they can agree to, what they can offer, what they\u2019re willing to do, even who they\u2019re willing to meet with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4550270\/trump-weighing-troop-drawdown-italy-spain\/\">TRUMP WEIGHING PULLING TROOPS FROM ITALY AND SPAIN OVER UNWILLINGNESS TO HELP WITH IRAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump is butting up against the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4549202\/white-house-having-active-conversations-with-congress-on-authorizing-iran-war\/\">end of the 60-day legality window<\/a> for Operation Epic Fury as laid out in the War Powers Resolution of 1973. <\/p>\n<p>If he cannot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-new-plan-to-end-overtime-taxes-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... announces new plan to end overtime taxes - Washington Examiner\">secure congressional approval<\/a> to continue the campaign, he may be able to grant himself a one-time extension of 30 days that would limit his ability to conduct offensive operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says he\u2019s unhappy with Iran\u2019s latest peace proposal, calling Tehran\u2019s leadership \u201cdisjointed\u201d and unable to agree on deal-making authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2597749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26121616699809.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3823,32726,67506,3634],"class_list":["post-2597748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-peace-proposal","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26121616699809.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597752,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597748\/revisions\/2597752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}