Donald Trump, speaking on Sunday to Israel’s Channel 12, said that Iran’s counterproposal is unacceptable and therefore rejected it.

“The new Iranian proposal is not acceptable to me. I studied it, I looked at everything — it’s not acceptable,” he said in a brief phone interview with journalist Nathan Guttman.

Trump had already indicated a day earlier that he would not easily accept Tehran’s proposals.

“The Iranians want to make a deal, but I’m not happy with what they offered,” he told reporters regarding the Iranian terms.

It is recalled that Tehran announced that the United States had responded to its 14-point proposal, submitted through a mediator (Pakistan), and that the Iranian side is reviewing Washington’s reply.

“At this stage, we are not conducting negotiations on the nuclear program,” a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, according to state media.

The Iranian proposal responds to a nine-point plan from Washington and focuses on a complete end — rather than a “freeze” — of hostilities. It rejects the US proposal for a two-month ceasefire and calls for resolving key issues within 30 days. Tehran stresses that the priority should be ending the war, not prolonging a temporary truce.

Renewed call for pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu

The American president also revisited the issue of granting a pardon to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“He is a wartime prime minister. Israel wouldn’t exist without me and Bibi — in that order. You need a prime minister who can focus on the war and not on nonsense,” Trump said.