U.S. President Donald Trump says that he’s “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest proposal in negotiations to end war between the countries. Trump told reporters Friday at the White House that Iran wants to make a deal but he says they are asking for things he can’t agree to. Trump did not elaborate on what he sees as the proposal’s shortcomings. The president said negotiations have continued by phone after he called off his envoys’ trip to Pakistan last week. He expressed frustration with Iran’s leadership, describing it as fractured. The shaky three-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears to be still holding.
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says the majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is still believed to be at its Isfahan nuclear complex. The site was bombarded by airstrikes last year and faced less intense attacks in this year’s U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Rafael Grossi tells The Associated Press the International Atomic Energy Agency has satellite images showing the effects of the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. Grossi says the uranium was stored there last June and it's his best estimate it "has been there ever since.” The agency wants to inspect the Isfahan site and Iran's other two facilities to ensure U.N. inspectors’ seals haven't been broken. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful.
Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a car-bomb attack on a police station as an attempt to undermine the 1998 agreement that brought peace to the region.
Federal prosecutors say a 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan, which is in its fourth year of a bloody civil war. First U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Sunday on social media that the woman will face charges that she brokered the sale of “drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition” between Iran and the Sudanese Armed Forces. She is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2016. The defendant is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday.
Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran. That’s according to the Pakistani military, which said Wednesday that the delegation included the country’s interior minister and other senior security officials. The military said the visit was “part of the ongoing mediation efforts,” but gave no further details. Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator in the conflict. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the U.S. will ramp up its infliction of economic pain on Iran. Bessent said the effort would be the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says that 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama has been charged with attempting to kill the OpenAI CEO as well as a security guard at the residence when he threw the incendiary device at the gate of Sam Altman’s home on April 10. Moreno-Gama was arrested a short time later outside the headquarters of OpenAI, and police said that he threatened to burn down the business. Court documents say the man is opposed to artificial intelligence and had a list of other AI tech executives. Matt Cobo, the FBI's San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge said of the incident: “This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted and extremely serious."
Hungarian voters have ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions. It was a stunning blow for Orbán — a close ally of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — who quickly conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result on Sunday night. Election victor Péter Magyar, a former Orbán loyalist who campaigned against corruption and on everyday issues like health care and public transport, has pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and NATO — ties that frayed under Orbán.
Pope Leo XIV has amplified his condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. He says “God does not bless any conflict” and doesn’t side with those who drop bombs. Leo made the comments Friday to a gathering of top bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. The Vatican posted part of his comments on Leo’s official @Pontifex handle on X. U.S. officials and especially Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have invoked their Christian faith to justify the war. Leo on Saturday will preside over a special vigil prayer for peace in St. Peter’s Basilica.
President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran. It's the latest in a series of deadline delays and use of menacing rhetoric that included Trump’s threat earlier Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight." The Republican president initially set a deadline for March 23 but postponed it several times to Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. On Truth Social, Trump posted that he agrees to withhold “the bombing and attack of Iran” for two weeks, subject to Iran immediately opening the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said they had accepted a two-week ceasefire and that passage through the Strait of Hormuz would be allowed for that same period.