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Iran's response to Trump's proposal given to Pakistan · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Today marks day seventy one of the war with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the
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  Speaker 1: Katari Prime Minister, who has been acting as one of
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  Speaker 1: several intermediaries working behind the scenes to try to end
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  Speaker 1: this conflict. That meeting took place a day after the
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  Speaker 1: Prime minister appears to have met with Vice President jad
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  Speaker 1: Vance in Washington, and I say appears because the only
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  Speaker 1: evidence that meeting took place is this picture and social
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  Speaker 1: media posts from the Katari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There's
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  Speaker 1: been no readoubt from the US side, no social media posts,
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  Speaker 1: and the White House did not respond to ms now
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  Speaker 1: when we tried to confirm if it even happened at all.
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  Speaker 1: All of this comes as President Trump continues to await
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  Speaker 1: Iran's response to his administration's one page Memorandum of Understanding,
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  Speaker 1: a document outlining terms and timelines for new negotiations in
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to end the war. Rubio said Iran would
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  Speaker 1: respond by Friday, and Trump had even given Iran a
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  Speaker 1: Friday deadline to respond. Yesterday, and his only public remarks,
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  Speaker 1: Trump told a French TV station that he quote expects
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  Speaker 1: to hear very soon joining me now is ms NOW
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  Speaker 1: contributor Inzamam Rashid in Dubai and Zie, it's good to
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  Speaker 1: see you. Iranian media is now reporting that Iran's response
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  Speaker 1: to the US proposal to end the war has been
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  Speaker 1: shared with Pakistan.
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  Speaker 2: What are you hearing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've got that confirmed now here on ms NOW.
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  Speaker 3: My sources inside Tehran's senior foreign diplomatic sources linked with
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  Speaker 3: the negotiations have now confirmed that Iran has formally submitted
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  Speaker 3: their response to that US proposal to Pakistan. There's no
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  Speaker 3: indication yet whether Pakistan has sent that off to the US,
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  Speaker 3: but I imagine that would happen pretty quickly. My source
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  Speaker 3: also added that this is a positive step, but any
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  Speaker 3: ending is still a long way down the road. Mistrust
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  Speaker 3: needs to be seriously reduced and atmospherics need to be
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  Speaker 3: subsidantially improved. And I think he's alluding to both sides there,
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  Speaker 3: not just the US, but Iran as well. I think
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  Speaker 3: the big question Antonia is why has it taken so
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  Speaker 3: long for Iran to respond? I was being told on
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  Speaker 3: Thursday that they would have a response to the pakistanis
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  Speaker 3: that didn't come? As you mentioned, Secretary Marco Rubio had
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  Speaker 3: said that they were expecting a response on Friday. President
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  Speaker 3: Trump also and they were hoping for a serious response
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  Speaker 3: from the Iranians. That didn't come then. All day yesterday
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  Speaker 3: all eyes were on the Iranians. Nothing came from them yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and now today we have finally seen a response.
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  Speaker 2: Also, what's inside.
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  Speaker 3: That that we can't be clear about, but I think Iran,
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  Speaker 3: if they've taken this much time, then I think they
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  Speaker 3: would have seriously considered some of the points that the
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  Speaker 3: US included in their proposal, so ending the war within
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty days, a gradual lifting of the Iranian
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  Speaker 3: blockade on the straight up Hormus, as well as the
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  Speaker 3: US blockade on the straight of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be really interested to see whether they've actually responded
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  Speaker 3: to the specific details around whether they can carry on
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  Speaker 3: in enriching uranium to create a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 2: That's been the red line from the US.
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  Speaker 3: It's the whole point the US and Israel got into
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  Speaker 3: this fight in the first place, and of course lifting
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  Speaker 3: of the sanctions inside Iran so they can get their
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  Speaker 3: economy flowing once again. There was one particular point from
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  Speaker 3: the US proposal as well, is that if negotiations couldn't
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  Speaker 3: come to a conclusive ending within the thirty days of
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  Speaker 3: this agreement being approved, then the US and Israel would
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  Speaker 3: start their strikes on Iran once again and continue with
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  Speaker 3: the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. So I'd be
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  Speaker 3: interested to see what Iran has responded to that. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to tell you what Iran's president has tweeted
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  Speaker 3: this morning as well. He said that we will never
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  Speaker 3: bow our heads before the enemy, and if talk of
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  Speaker 3: dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat.
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  Speaker 2: Rather, the goal is to uphold.
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  Speaker 3: The rights of the Iranian nation and to defend national
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  Speaker 3: interests with resolute strength. Remember, Antonio, these are guys who
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  Speaker 3: will not capitulate to US demands their hard line. They've
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  Speaker 3: had years and years of learning how to negotiate, to
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  Speaker 3: not back down to anyone's demands as it may be,
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  Speaker 3: so getting a deal over the line will be very difficult,
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  Speaker 3: But this is a positive step they have responded.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look to the US now to see.
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  Speaker 3: What their response is and whether the two sides could
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  Speaker 3: be meeting anytime soon to get an ending.
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  Speaker 2: To this war.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the I mean hard line. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: reportings suggests maybe even harder line than before this war began,
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  Speaker 1: because in many ways it seems the US and Israel's
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  Speaker 1: actions have actually put some of the most hard line
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  Speaker 1: people in the center of power now allowed them to
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  Speaker 1: consolidate control of the country. Thank you as all ways
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  Speaker 1: MS NOW contributor Insimum Rashid you're reporting there from Dubai.
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  Speaker 1: You always do such a good job of making sense
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  Speaker 1: of this