WASHINGTON DC – For a regime which the US and Israel claim is being bombed back to the Stone Age, the surviving elements of Iran’s leadership certainly have a good line in patter.
Seizing the narrative away from Donald Trump on an almost hourly basis, on Wednesday, Iran accused the US of “negotiating with itself”, with a military spokesman poking fresh fun at the ever-shifting sands of White House explanations for where things with Iran actually stand.
“Someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you. Not now, not ever,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran’s main military command, said.
Those remarks poured fresh scorn on Trump’s claims that some kind of negotiating process was underway between the US and an unidentified “top person” in Iran, widely reported to be Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament.
But Ghalibaf denied this week that any negotiations were taking place, and on Wednesday wrote on social media that Iran was “closely monitoring all US movements in the region… Do not test our resolve to defend our land”.
Pakistan, keen to project itself as a mediator between Washington and Tehran, says a 15-point peace plan proffered by the White House has been conveyed to the Iranians. However, reports suggest Iran has rejected Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the US President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as interlocutors, and is demanding to deal only with US Vice President JD Vance.
Given that Witkoff and Kushner were involved in greenlighting last year’s Operation Midnight Hammer against its nuclear facilities, and the ongoing Operation Epic Fury, both of which came during peace talks in Geneva, it’s not surprising that Tehran is reluctant to deal with men it brands as “backstabbers”.
Trump is unlikely to be pleased by demands like this, especially when he is supposed to be winning his war, but in the short term, there is likely very little he can do about it.
The US President tells a good story, but the narrative he is trying to spin over the latest US war makes little sense and suggests he is being backed further into a corner of his own making.
Trump is unlikely to be pleased by demands placed on him by Iran (Photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu/Getty)If reporting by Israeli television network Channel 12 is correct, the US’s 15-point plan also reveals the extent of Trump’s own credibility when it comes to last summer’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In Trump’s version of events, the US and Israel “completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capacity in July 2025, along with the sites where military nuclear capability was being developed. Yet the latest plan reportedly calls for “nuclear facilities at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow” to be “taken out of use and destroyed”.
Iran will also be required to commit “to never strive to achieve nuclear weapons”. Iranian negotiators publicly made that commitment on numerous occasions during last month’s talks in Geneva, which were upended when the Americans walked away and decided to launch air strikes, alongside Israel, on the country instead.
Meanwhile, the plan calls for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to secure transparency and oversight over activities in Iran. This is the same IAEA that was extensively engaged in these actions until Trump, during his first term in office, withdrew the US from its previous nuclear deal with Iran.
One notable change is that the White House wants the Strait of Hormuz reopened not only to all shipping but also designated as a “free maritime zone”, a move that would represent a significant shift from current arrangements.
Iran’s regime never ratified the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and – like Oman on the other side of the Strait – reserves the right to require some vessels to secure permission for transit.
The Iranians reportedly charged a toll of $2m (£1.5m) earlier this week to grant safe passage to just one oil tanker and Tehran may plan to continue monetising the waterway via a per-vessel fee, while also controlling traffic in order to use the global price of oil as its own trump card.
At the same time, Trump is paving the way for a possible expansion of US military operations against Iran by bringing additional resources to the Middle East, including paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. But he is also showing an eagerness to end the conflict, saying its principal objectives have been secured and that “regime change” in Iran has already been achieved.
The Iranian people may not concur. Neither will the Israelis, nor Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is reportedly urging Trump to seize his “historic opportunity” to remake the landscape of the Middle East by toppling Iran’s government, not by coming to terms with it.
In its latest propaganda video, released on Wednesday, Iran showed an array of purported victims of US imperialism, including Native Americans, residents of Hiroshima, Vietnam, Palestine and now Iran. At the end, an AI version of its late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, watches approvingly as a missile snakes its way through the clouds and slams into the Statue of Liberty.
“One Vengeance for All”, reads the final message.
It seems clear that, almost a month into the war, if Iran is indeed in the mood for dialogue, it wants Trump to know that it won’t let him control the narrative or the final outcome.
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