The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump's negotiating team rejected Iran's first ceasefire proposal outright, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declaring it was 'literally thrown in the garbage.'
Washington's confirmation came on 8 April 2026 during a White House press briefing, one day after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Tehran, brokered by Pakistan, just 90 minutes before his self-imposed deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The administration moved quickly to frame the sequence on its own terms, insisting that Tehran had submitted two separate 10-point proposals and that only the second was deemed workable.
