UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE

Washington brands the Iranian response a total non-starter. Trump posted on X that Tehran's proposal is 'totally unacceptable.' Iran agreed to transfer its enriched uranium stockpile to a neutral third party but refused any inspection or dismantlement of its enrichment facilities — a condition the Trump administration calls non-negotiable. The New York Times notes experts close to the White House describe the offer as a 'half-measure' that leaves the plutonium pathway to a bomb intact. Bloomberg reports Trump added the US would obtain Iran's uranium 'at some point' — a statement Tehran read as a veiled threat. Fox News amplifies experts insisting any deal leaving Iran's nuclear infrastructure intact amounts to strategic defeat. Beneath the triumphalist surface, Bloomberg detects unease: 60 days of war, $25 billion spent (Hegseth's figure), no end date, and now a nuclear impasse on a dossier that was not supposed to be the core of the initial negotiation.