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Iran live updates: Trump calls Iran's latest response to proposal 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE'

The Iranian response was sent via Pakistan on Sunday, state media said.

Last Updated: May 10, 2026, 4:41 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan in April failed to reach a peace deal.

Trump later announced the open-ended extension of the ceasefire and the continuation of a U.S. blockade until negotiations are concluded "one way or the other."

1:43 PM EDT

Trump says US has Iran's enriched uranium 'surveilled'

President Donald Trump on Sunday again touted his administration's operations in Iran but wouldn't go as far as to say that combat was over.

Appearing on "Full Measure," Trump said of seizing Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, "Well, we'll get that at some point. Whatever we want. We have it surveilled."

"We have that very well surveilled. If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we'll blow him up. We'll blow them up," he added.

Trump was also asked if he believes that combat operations were concluded. "No, I didn't say that. I said they are -- they are defeated, but that doesn't mean they're done. We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target," Trump said.

"We have certain targets that we wanted, and we've done probably 70% of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit. But even if we didn't do that, that would just be final touches. But even if we didn't do that, it would take them many years to rebuild," the president said.

An Iranian man walks past an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel mural painted on a wall, in the capital Tehran, on May 10, 2026.
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Trump admitted that Iranian negotiators were a tough group to work with but maintained his argument that their nuclear capabilities have been severely weakened and that the U.S. would eventually seize Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

"It's very interesting because, you know, they make a deal and then they break it. Then they make a deal, they break it. It's a difficult group, but from a military standpoint, I mean, if we left, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild," Trump said.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

11:51 AM EDT

3 more ships 'redirected' by US blockade, CENTCOM says

U.S. Central Command said in a post to X on Sunday that the number of commercial vessels "redirected" by the U.S. blockade against Iran is now 61 -- three more than the previous update given on Saturday.

CENTCOM said that more than 20 warships are enforcing the blockade. Four commercial vessels have so far been disabled by U.S. forces, CENTCOM said.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta implementing a maritime blockade, May 8, 2026.
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-ABC News' Cindy Smith and Ben Siu

10:02 AM EDT

Khamenei meets with Iranian military chief, Fars reports

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei met the head of Iran's armed forces and briefed the military chief on "new guiding measures to pursue military operations and firmly confront adversaries," according to a report by Iran's semi-official news agency Fars on Sunday.

The report did not state when the meeting occurred. Khamenei has not been seen in public since he was appointed supreme leader in March, succeeding his father -- Ali Khamenei -- who was killed in the opening hours of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Fars said that Ali Abdollahi -- who commands the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters -- briefed Khamenei on the readiness of Iran's armed forces.

Abdollahi told Khamenei that Iranian forces are "highly prepared in terms of combat morale, defense and offensive readiness" and would deal with any aggression "swiftly, intensely and powerfully," Fars reported.

Iranian commuters walks past a large tiled image of Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, at the entrance to the metro in Tehran, Iran, on May 9, 2026.
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-ABC News' Claire Bower

9:24 AM EDT

Iran sends response to latest US peace proposal, state media says

Iranian state media reported on Sunday that Tehran had sent its response to the U.S.-proposed text outlining a possible end to the ongoing war.

IRNA said the response was sent via Pakistani mediators.

-ABC News' Rashid Haddou-Riffi

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