Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’

The Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations said the US rejected Iran’s proposal to end the ongoing war there because Iranian negotiators “were asking for everything up front”.

Echoing comments by Donald Trump on Saturday, the president’s UN ambassador Mike Waltz told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Iran had asked for relief “from billions and billions of sanctions that are going into place” as part of an economic blockade on Iran. The blockade is aimed at putting pressure on Iran to stop its attacks ‌on vessels in the strait of Hormuz.

If a guilty verdict on multiple counts of financial misreporting is upheld against the club, its achievements in the modern era will be forever tainted

In surveys ranking the Premier League’s greatest moments, football supporters regularly give pride of place to Sergio Agüero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City in 2012. Scored in injury time on the last day of the season, Agüero’s strike against Queens Park Rangers delivered the first league title for City since the 1960s. Knocking their historic rivals Manchester United into second place, it also signalled a new era in which the club replaced United as the dominant force in the English game.

“Aguerooooooo!” – the incredulous single-word response from the match commentator Martin Tyler – has entered football folklore. But an asterisk may now be needed at the end of all those Os. Reports that an independent panel has found Manchester City guilty of breaking Premier League rules between 2009 and 2023 cast a dark shadow over that day, and much else besides. During that period, the club won seven Premier League titles, six League Cups, three FA Cups and the Uefa Champions League, all while under the ownership of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family. The inescapable implication of the apparent ruling is that those trophies were won unfairly.

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Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk

The vast majority of the UK’s essential foods, including cereals, potatoes, sugar and oil, are grown in areas of England rated as having a moderate to very high risk of drought.

A very high proportion – 81% – of England’s fresh produce is concentrated in parts of the country that are already experiencing water stress, according to the analysis by the nature-focused investment fund Rebalance Earth.

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WASHINGTON (ANP/DPA) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft tegen nieuwssite Axios gezegd dat hij komende week nog nieuwe gesprekken met Iran verwacht. Zaterdag wees hij een Iraans voorstel voor het heropenen van de Straat van Hormuz nog af, maar Iran zei zondag nog te wachten op een officiële reactie.

Trump zei dat het een voorstel was dat de Verenigde Staten misschien een jaar geleden nog hadden aangenomen, maar Iran zou inmiddels zijn hand hebben overspeeld. Vorig jaar was de Straat van Hormuz nog open. Die werd pas afgesloten nadat de VS en Israël afgelopen februari Iran aanvielen.

Bronnen van Axios bevestigen dat er plannen zijn voor nieuwe indirecte gesprekken tussen Iran en de VS. Die zouden zelfs maandag al kunnen plaatsvinden.

Ook afgelopen week is er gesproken door delegaties van beide landen in New York, aan de zijlijn van de bijeenkomst van de Verenigde Naties. Daarna maakte Iran bekend een voorstel te hebben gedaan voor de heropening van de Straat van Hormuz.