{"id":11537,"date":"2026-08-18T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:57:16","slug":"iran-faces-surrender-demand-as-us-says-needed-deal-remains-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=11537","title":{"rendered":"Iran faces surrender demand as US says needed deal remains out of reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Trump says Iran must not be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>US president rejects extending the interim agreement with Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Threatens Oman if it obstructs efforts over Hormuz shipping.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would not make the deal he thinks is needed to end a war with the US and should surrender as talks between the countries remained stalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They&#8217;re not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary. Look, we&#8217;re in there for one reason: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,&#8221; he told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked whether the US was seeking to extend an interim deal with Iran, Trump said &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interim deal agreed to in June declared an &#8220;immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts&#8221;, but quickly unravelled, with Trump saying it was &#8220;over&#8221; on July 7 and Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry declaring it &#8220;suspended&#8221; a week later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under that memorandum of understanding, Iran and the US committed to negotiating a final deal \u2014 covering broader issues such as the fate of Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme \u2014 in a maximum of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent. Monday marks 60 days since the MOU was signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours before, Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview that Iran &#8220;should put up the white flag of surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, Oman and Iran have been in talks to try to reach an agreement to restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which carried 20% of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies before the US-Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If Oman gets in the way, we&#8217;ll bomb the shit out of them,&#8221; Trump told Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked later in the Oval Office if he was out of patience with Oman, Trump told reporters: &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think they behaved very well, but we&#8217;d handle them very easily, just like we do other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz has driven up fuel prices and put pressure on Trump to end a war that is unpopular at home ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide \u200ccontrol of the US Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump told Fox News that the midterms were not impacting his strategy on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Midterms have nothing to do with my thinking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier on Monday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: &#8220;The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon,&#8221; repeating one of his stated rationales for the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would not make the deal he thinks is needed to end a war with the US..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1.png",800,947,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1-253x300.png",253,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1-768x909.png",768,909,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1.png",800,947,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1.png",800,947,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Souch-Social-Media-Poster-1-Recovered-1.png",800,947,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11539,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions\/11539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}