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Trump calls Iran's latest response to proposal 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE'

PHOTO: Iranian commuters walks past a large tiled image of Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, at the entrance to the metro in Tehran, Iran, on May 9, 2026.
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Trump calls Iran's latest response to proposal 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE'
By David Brennan, Meredith Deliso, Nadine El-Bawab, Jon Haworth
Last Updated: May 4, 2026, 11:14 AM

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan in April failed to reach a peace deal.

Trump later announced the open-ended extension of the ceasefire and the continuation of a U.S. blockade until negotiations are concluded "one way or the other."

Key Headlines

  • Trump says US has Iran's enriched uranium 'surveilled'
  • 3 more ships 'redirected' by US blockade, CENTCOM says
  • Iran sends response to latest US peace proposal, state media says
  • UAE intercepts 2 drones 'coming from Iran,' Defense Ministry says
  • Bulk carrier ship struck by 'unknown projectile' off Qatari coast, UKMTO says
Here's how the news is developing.

May 04, 2026 11:14 AM

First to ABC: Iranian ship and crew seized by US transferred to Pakistan

The Iranian ship that was seized by the U.S. after it tried to run the U.S. blockade has been transferred to Pakistan for repatriation to Iran, along with its crew, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command told ABC News.

"Today, U.S. forces completed the transfer of 22 crew members of M/V Touska to Pakistan for repatriation," Captain Tim Hawkins said. "Six other passengers were already transferred to a regional country for repatriation last week."

Iran state media identified the six as family members of some of the crew.

"Custody of Touska is currently being transferred back to its original ownership after the ship was intercepted and seized when attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade against Iran last month," Hawkins said.

When the crew of the Touska ignored six hours’ worth of warnings from U.S. ships on April 19, a destroyer fired several rounds at the container ship's engine room, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon news conference on April 24. The ship was later boarded by U.S. Marines, who seized the ship.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez


May 04, 2026 11:14 AM

Trump says US will guide ships of countries not involved in war out of strait

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he's ordered U.S. personnel to safely guide ships and crews from countries that are not involved with the Iran war out of Strait of Hormuz, which is currently subject to a naval blockade.

This "humanitarian gesture," which Trump called "Project Freedom," will begin Monday morning "Middle East time," he wrote.

PHOTO: Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 1, 2026.
Reuters
Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 1, 2026.
Reuters

"The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong -- They are victims of circumstance," the president wrote. "This is a Humanitarian gesture on behalf of the United States, Middle Eastern Countries but, in particular, the Country of Iran."

Trump claimed that his "representatives" were having "very positive discussions" with Iranian leadership, despite the fact that he said earlier Sunday that he reviewed their most recent peace proposal and that it is "not acceptable."

He said these discussions "could lead to something very positive for all" but warned that if Iran interferes with these safety efforts, they will "have to be dealt with forcefully."

-ABC News' Isabella Murray


May 04, 2026 11:14 AM

Trump must choose between 'impossible' war or 'bad deal,' IRGC says

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement via the state-run Press TV claiming that the U.S.' room for decision-making "has narrowed" amid the ongoing negotiating stalemate.

In its statement, the IRGC claimed that Tehran has set the Pentagon a deadline to lift its blockade of Iranian ports. It also claimed that the global tone of conversation on the conflict has shifted "against Washington," citing critical statements on the war from China, Russia and Europe.

President Donald Trump, the IRGC said, must choose between "an impossible military operation or a bad deal" with Iran.

PHOTO: A man holds an Iranian flag near an anti-U.S. billboard in Tehran, Iran, on May 2, 2026.
Majid Asgaripour/via Reuters
A man holds an Iranian flag near an anti-U.S. billboard in Tehran, Iran, on May 2, 2026.
Majid Asgaripour/via Reuters

-ABC News' Dragana Jovanovic



May 10, 2026 10:31 AM

Kuwait army intercepts 'hostile drones'

Kuwait's Defense Ministry spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, said in a statement on Sunday that the country's armed forces detected and "dealt with" several "hostile drones within Kuwaiti airspace."

The incident occurred at dawn on Sunday, Otaibi said in a statement published on X by Kuwait's armed forces.


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