Iran, on Wednesday (May 6, 2026), said it was reviewing a US proposal to end the ongoing West Asia war, even as Trump threatened to resume military operations if the peace talks failed.
Iran said it was leaving open unresolved US demands that it suspends the nuclear programme and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while a foreign ministry spokesperson said Tehran would convey its response to the American proposals.
US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, was optimistic of an agreement to end the war, but simultaneously threatened to resume the military operations against Iran if the peace talks failed.
“They want to make a deal. We’ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and we may make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
However, on a Truth Social post earlier in the day, Trump struck a more sceptical note, threatening to restart bombing Iran, while calling the possibility of a peace agreement a “big assumption.”
While Trump has projected confidence in Iran agreeing to peace since the war began on February 28, with the US-Israel airstrikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, he has not had much success.
The key sticking points in the peace deal are Iran’s nuclear programme and Strait of Hormuz maritime traffic. Iran is unwilling to abandon the nuclear programme that it describes as a peaceful, civilian effort or to give up its leverage in the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan has been playing mediator in bringing both the US and Iran to the negotiation table, hosting the first peace talks in Islamabad a month ago. But it has failed to make the two sides see reason for a second round of discussions.
Islamabad said an agreement was near, based on a page-long memorandum that could end the conflict in West Asia. It included reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifting US sanctions on Iran, while limiting the Iranian nuclear programme.
It is unclear how this one-page agreement was different from the 14-point discussion paper that Iran presented earlier or the 10-point proposal from the US.
Iranian Parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee’s spokesperson Ebrahim Rezaei, a lawmaker, however, dismissed the one-page memorandum as “more of an American wish-list than a reality.”
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf also mocked reports suggesting progress, writing on social media in English that “Operation Trust Me Bro failed.” He said such claims were US propaganda after the failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organisation issued an official message to commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf waters saying Tehran was fully ready to provide maritime public services, technical support, and medical and healthcare to them and their crew.
The effort was aimed at enhancing navigational safety, supporting vessel operability, and ensuring crew welfare. The Iranian organisation said all cargo vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, particularly those anchored in Iranian territorial waters and ports, could request the services, including food, fuel, healthcare, and repair.
It emphasised that the initiatives were within Iranian responsibilities for maritime safety and port services. It underscored the full preparedness of the Iranian ports to support the safe and uninterrupted movement of the cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz.