Iran just offered to end the war and America rejected the deal

Donald Trump just said no to Iran.

Iran offered a seven-day plan to end the war. Trump turned it down.

And he expects to start bombing Iran again once the midterm elections are done.

Here's how we know. The Wall Street Journal reported two days ago that Trump had rejected Iran's ceasefire plan, and had told his own aides privately that he expects to resume bombing after the 3 November midterms.

Then Trump confirmed it himself, the next day, standing with reporters.

He says quote "They made a proposal but I rejected it".

So what was Iran actually offering?

Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, laid it out four days ago, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It would restart nuclear talks. Both within seven days.

But only if the US moved first.

He wants the strait reopened and talks restarted within seven days, if his conditions are met.

And those conditions were big. A full ceasefire across the Middle East, including in Lebanon. An end to the US naval blockade on Iranian ports. An end to the squeeze on Iranian oil. And the release of more than $12 billion in frozen Iranian money.

Trump's answer was simple. The blockade stays.

A US official says mediators are still talking. But Washington has told Iran, and everyone standing in between, that Trump isn't lifting it.

And he was blunt about why.

He says quote "They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they're losing so badly".

So that's the US president saying Iran wants peace because it's losing. Not because it wants peace.

Mike Waltz, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, backs that up. He says Trump doesn't think Iran is negotiating honestly. His reason: Iran signed a ceasefire memorandum back in June, then broke it by attacking international shipping. Waltz says 146 countries condemned Iran over that.

But here's where it gets messy.

Trump has publicly denied the election has anything to do with his Iran decisions. And in the same breath, he's predicted Tehran will strike a deal right after the midterms anyway. At the UN last week, he said Iran faces a big decision over whether he moves to annihilate the country if talks fail.