Trump Rejects New Iran Peace Offer as ‘Totally Unacceptable’ (4)

President Donald Trump and Iran rejected each other’s latest peace proposals to end the 10-week conflict as the two sides struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’” Trump said in a social media post. “I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”

Iran offered to transfer some of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to a third country, but rejected the idea of dismantling its nuclear facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier. Iran disputed the report, according to the country’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.

President Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8.

Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg

It was unclear whether the exchange ...