Donald Trump says Iran is "failing very badly, very badly" as war with US enters seventh month

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said Iran was struggling and predicted the war with the United States, now in its seventh month, would end soon. His remarks came as Iranian officials said Wednesday that Washington had answered Tehran's newest plan for ending the conflict, days after Trump publicly dismissed that plan. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, shared the American reply with President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, a government spokesperson said. Tehran's proposal reportedly offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifted its blockade on Iranian ports, unfroze Iranian assets, and dropped sanctions on Iranian oil. Mediators reportedly kept trying to arrange a deal despite Trump's rejection. Meanwhile, the Treasury announced sanctions on people and entities in Iran, Hong Kong, and Pakistan accused of aiding Iran's armed forces supply operations, and Iran's currency reached a record low.