{"id":33162,"date":"2026-04-28T07:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33162"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:22:49","slug":"fourteen-illed-in-plane-crash-near-juba-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fourteen-illed-in-plane-crash-near-juba-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018US President not happy with latest Iran proposal to end war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">United States (US) President Donald Trump is unhappy with the latest Iranian proposal on resolving the two-month war, a US official said, dampening hopes for a resolution to the conflict that has disrupted energy supplies, fuelled inflation, and killed thousands.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Iran\u2019s latest proposal would set aside discussion of Iran\u2019s nuclear program until the war is ended and disputes over shipping from the Gulf are resolved.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>That is unlikely to satisfy the US, which says nuclear issues must be dealt with from the outset, and Trump was unhappy with Iran\u2019s proposal for that reason, a US official briefed on the President\u2019s Monday meeting with his advisers said, speking on condition of anonymity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>White House Spokesperson Olivia Wales said the US \u201cwill not negotiate through the press\u201d and has \u201cbeen clear about our redlines\u201d as the Trump administration looks to end the war against Iran, which began in February alongside Israel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>A previous agreement in 2015 between Iran and multiple other countries, including the US, sharply curtailed Iran\u2019s nuclear program, which it has long maintained is for peaceful, civilian purposes. But that deal fell apart when Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in his first term in office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Hopes of reviving peace efforts have receded since the Trump scrapped a visit planned for last weekend by his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, where Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi shuttled in and out twice during the weekend.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Araqchi also visited Oman and on Monday went to Russia, where he met President Vladimir Putin and received words of support from a longstanding ally.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15386,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-33162","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Iran\u2019s latest proposal would set aside discussion of Iran\u2019s nuclear program until the war is ended.","published_date":"","news_description":"Iran\u2019s latest proposal would set aside discussion of Iran\u2019s nuclear program until the war is ended.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33166,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33162\/revisions\/33166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}