The Proposal Was Dead on Arrival

Iran submitted its response paper over the weekend. Trump read part of it, then stopped.

"I would call it the weakest right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us. I didn't even finish reading it," Trump said Monday in the Oval Office, according to the Times of Israel.

The Broken Verbal Promises

Trump claims Iranian negotiators verbally agreed to two significant concessions — then left both out of the official written proposal.

First: Iran allegedly told U.S. counterparts they were prepared to let America retrieve Tehran's stockpiles of highly-enriched uranium. It never made it into the paper.

Second: Iranian negotiators allegedly guaranteed they "wouldn't obtain nuclear weapons for a very long period of time." Also missing from the written proposal.

"Two days ago, they said, 'You're going to have to take it. We were going to go with them. But they changed their mind because they didn't put it in the paper,'" Trump told reporters, per the Times of Israel.

Iran's Strategy: Buy Time

Two regional intelligence officials told Fox News exactly what Tehran is doing.

Iran is pursuing a deliberate strategy of "deception and delay." The goal: stretch the crisis out at least two more weeks, betting that time makes a U.S. military restart politically and operationally harder.

Why two weeks? Iranian officials are reportedly eyeing the FIFA World Cup and America's 250th anniversary celebrations as political backstops that could constrain Trump's options.

Netanyahu Call Scheduled

Trump spoke Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu confirmed it himself, translated from Hebrew: "I will speak today, as I do every few days, with our friend President Trump. I will certainly hear impressions from his trip to China, and perhaps other matters as well. There are certainly many possibilities, and we are prepared for every scenario."

The call comes directly amid Fox News reporting that regional intelligence assessments show a restart of military strikes is being actively weighed — driven by Trump's frustration with Iran's Strait of Hormuz closure and its refusal to abandon nuclear weapons ambitions.

Qatar Is Getting Hammered

The economic damage to U.S. allies is already severe.

According to the New York Times, Iranian attacks have paralyzed Qatar's vital natural gas exports. Qatar is one of the world's wealthiest nations — and one of the world's largest LNG exporters. Shutting down Qatari gas exports doesn't just hurt Doha. It squeezes European energy markets, drives up prices, and weakens the broader coalition of Gulf states that the U.S. depends on for regional stability.

The tourism and business diversification projects Qatar spent years and billions building are stalling.

What Trump Is Considering

Beyond the ceasefire collapse, Trump told Fox News on Monday that he's weighing restarting the operation to escort ships through the Iran-blocked Strait of Hormuz. The Strait closure is hammering global oil and gas prices — and that pain hits American consumers at the pump.

Trump also claimed that the U.S. gave Kurdish militants weapons to use against the Iranian regime, but "the Kurds decided to keep them." No independent verification of that claim exists.

What's Next

The ceasefire is, by the U.S. president's own words, on life support. Iran submitted a proposal that walked back verbal concessions on highly-enriched uranium and nuclear guarantees. Trump called it garbage and stopped reading it.

A Trump-Netanyahu call happened Sunday. Military strike intelligence assessments are circulating. Qatar's economy is being gutted. Oil and gas prices are climbing.

The negotiating window is closing fast — and Iran's strategy appears to be gambling that it can outlast the clock.