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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke in London, Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Andrew Roth in Washington

Trump claims planned attack on Iran postponed after Tehran makes new proposal to end war

A man on a red motorbike in traffic with a large billboard and buildings in the background
People drive past an anti-US billboard depicting Donald Trump and the strait of Hormuz in Tehran on Sunday. Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters

Iran has made a new proposal for a deal to definitively end the war in the Middle East, officials in the region said on Monday, with Donald Trump claiming he had postponed new military strikes so talks could continue.

But while the US president has regularly used social media to threaten Tehran, and to claim that a peace deal was within reach, there has been no sign of an immediate breakthrough in the stalled negotiations to end the war.

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