US ambassador says Iran sought 'everything up front' before Trump rejected ceasefire

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said on September 27, 2026, that President Trump rejected an Iranian ceasefire proposal because Iran was demanding 'everything up front' and was not negotiating 'in good faith.' The rejection marked a breakdown in diplomatic efforts to end the US-Iran conflict.

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Waltz says Iranians asked for 'everything up front' before Trump rejected ceasefire

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) Mike Waltz said Sunday that President Trump rejected Iranian officials’ ceasefire proposal because they asked for “everything up front.” “They were asking for everything up front. They were asking for relief from billions and billions of sanctions that are going into place as Operation Economic Fury, but also...

UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war

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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 Sta