United States President Donald Trump has issued a 15-point plan containing US-Israeli calls for and affords for ending the continued struggle on Iran, Al Jazeera has confirmed.
The plan has been delivered to Iran by way of Pakistan, which said this week that it’s ready to host peace talks.
Trump has mentioned that Washington and Tehran have had “superb and productive conversations” aimed toward ending the struggle this week. Nonetheless, Iran has constantly denied that it’s holding talks with the US. In response to Trump’s declare, Iranian leaders mentioned the US is “negotiating with itself“.
The struggle, which the US and Israel launched on February 28 as negotiations with Iran had been ongoing, has had a excessive value, roiling vitality and inventory markets worldwide, disrupting transport and leading to casualties throughout the Center East.
As of Tuesday, 1,500 folks have been killed in Iran alone and 18,551 have been injured, based on official figures from the Iranian well being ministry.
Days after the US and Israel started strikes on Iran, the nation’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) introduced that the Strait of Hormuz was closed to transport. It has since begun permitting a small variety of authorized ships – primarily Indian, Pakistani and Chinese language-flagged – to move.
This, mixed with Iranian assaults on US army property and vitality infrastructure within the Gulf area, despatched oil costs hovering above $100 a barrel, in contrast with the pre-war Brent crude worth – the worldwide benchmark – of about $65.
After experiences of the Trump administration’s 15-point ceasefire plan surfaced on Wednesday, world inventory costs rose barely whereas oil costs nudged down. However observers say it’s removed from clear that talks are taking place in any respect and – if they’re – whether or not the 2 sides might efficiently negotiate when their calls for for ending the struggle stay thus far aside.
Here’s what we find out about what every social gathering needs.
What’s within the US’s 15-point plan?
Al Jazeera and American and Israeli information shops have reported that the US despatched Iran a 15-point peace plan, which features a one-month ceasefire, whereas the 2 sides negotiate phrases to finish the struggle, by way of Pakistan.
It’s understood that Pakistan, Egypt and Turkiye have been urgent for a peace assembly between the US and Iran in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, to be held by Thursday, Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reported from Washington, DC.
“Because the US administration is making ready for peace talks, it’s additionally making ready for struggle,” Hendren mentioned, referring to the anticipated deployment of as many as 3,000 US troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Center East.
Not one of the events concerned — the US, Iran, Israel or the mediating international locations — have confirmed the main points of the 15-point plan. However Israel’s Channel 12 launched what it mentioned had been the parts of the plan. Lots of the proposals match what the Trump administration has spoken of beforehand.
Some key components reportedly embrace:
- A 30-day ceasefire.
- The dismantling of Iran’s nuclear services in Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow.
- A everlasting dedication from Iran to by no means develop nuclear weapons.
- The handover of Iran’s stockpile of already enriched uranium to the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA), and a dedication from Iran to permit the IAEA to watch all components of the nation’s remaining nuclear infrastructure. Iran should additionally not enrich uranium throughout the nation.
- Limits on the vary and variety of Iran’s missiles.
- Ending Iran’s assist for regional proxies.
- Ending Iranian strikes on regional vitality services.
- Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
- A removing of all sanctions imposed on Iran, alongside the ending of the UN mechanism that permits sanctions to be reimposed.
- The availability of US assist for electrical energy technology at Iran’s Bushehr civil nuclear plant.
It’s unclear to what extent Israel approves of US talks with Iran. On Wednesday, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim mentioned that “behind closed doorways”, Israel agrees with the 15 factors laid out by the US, however it “worries how a lot President Trump will compromise to get it”.
“They concern that these 15 factors could possibly be served as a framework for a possible negotiation and {that a} monthlong ceasefire might precede that … so President Trump might settle for that a few of his factors will likely be agreed upon [but] not all of them,” Ibrahim reported.
How have US calls for shifted for the reason that begin of the struggle?
Some – comparable to these referring to Iran’s nuclear programme – are the identical.
Throughout the 12-day struggle between Iran and Israel in June 2025, the US attacked the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow nuclear websites. These are enrichment facilities, the place uranium will be enriched to ranges succesful – in concept – of producing atomic bombs.
Beneath the phrases of the Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA), which Iran agreed with different nations in 2015, it had already dedicated to not enrich uranium past civilian use ranges and was topic to periodic inspections. Nonetheless, Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of that settlement three years later.
Bushehr, the ability plant the US says it will present help to in its 15-point plan – is situated about 750km (465 miles) south of Tehran. It’s Iran’s solely industrial nuclear energy plant. It’s run with uranium produced in Russia.
Different US goals seem to have modified in the course of the course of the struggle. Whereas the US and Israel targeted on Iran’s nuclear programme in the course of the 12-day struggle final yr, they’ve pushed for regime change in Iran in the course of the present struggle.
On the primary day of the continued struggle on February 28, Iranian state media confirmed that Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed at his workplace in Tehran.
Per week later, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Khamenei, was chosen as Iran’s new supreme chief, a call Washington was sad with.
After the brand new supreme chief was appointed, Trump instructed NBC Information, “I believe they made an enormous mistake. I don’t know if it’s going to final. I believe they made a mistake.”
Nonetheless, there isn’t any reference to regime change within the reported 15-point plan.
How has Iran reacted?
Iranian leaders have maintained that there aren’t any negotiations going down between Washington and Tehran in any respect.
Iran’s army management says it can not negotiate with the US, which has attacked Iran twice throughout ongoing negotiations over the previous two years.
“Has the extent of your internal battle reached the stage of you [Trump] negotiating with your self?” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, the highest spokesperson for Iran’s joint army command, mentioned on Wednesday on Iranian state TV, mocking the US president.
“Folks like us can by no means get together with folks such as you.”
“As now we have at all times mentioned … nobody like us will make a cope with you. Not now. Not ever.”
Iran and Israel continued to trade attacks on Wednesday.
What are Iran’s calls for for ending the struggle?
Whereas Iran’s IRGC has made clear that it doesn’t want to negotiate with the US, Iran does have some circumstances for peace. On March 11, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian laid out the Iranian terms for ending the struggle.
In an X submit, Pezeshkian wrote that he had spoken to his counterparts in Russia and Pakistan, and had reaffirmed “Iran’s dedication to peace”.
Pezeshkian wrote: “The one technique to finish this struggle – ignited by the Zionist regime & US – is recognizing Iran’s reputable rights, cost of reparations, and agency int’l ensures towards future aggression.”
It’s understood that Iran would additionally need all sanctions towards it to be lifted.
Moreover, Iran’s state-owned Press TV quoted an Iranian official as saying over the weekend that Tehran was in search of the closure of all US army bases within the area, and a brand new authorized mechanism to regulate transit by way of the Strait of Hormuz that formalises its de facto dominance over the waterway.
Nonetheless, the struggle has highlighted some variations between the IRGC and Iran’s political management, Zeidon Alkinani of Qatar’s Georgetown College instructed Al Jazeera earlier this month.
Beneath financial and political strain, Pezeshkian has proven some readiness to barter an finish to the struggle if Iran’s calls for are met, Alkinani mentioned. Nonetheless, he added, that is an existential struggle for the IRGC, and the power seems keen to combat till the tip to make sure the US and Israel by no means assault Iran once more.
“These variations and divisions [between IRGC and political leaders] at all times existed even previous to this struggle however we could discover it now extra, given the truth that the IRGC believes that it has the proper to take the entrance seat in main this regional struggle, which is why plenty of the statements and positions are contradicting with the official ones from Pezeshkian,” Alkinani mentioned.
Might negotiations happen, and what would they give attention to?
Some observers consider Iran could also be keen to speak on a restricted stage.
Citing an unnamed Iranian supply, US broadcaster CNN reported on Tuesday that there had been “outreach” between the US and Iran moderately than “full negotiations”.
The supply added that Iran was keen to take heed to “sustainable” proposals to convey an finish to the battle.
“Iran is able to present all the mandatory ensures that it’ll by no means develop nuclear weapons however is entitled to peaceable use of nuclear expertise,” CNN quoted the supply, who additionally added that sanctions should be lifted from Iran.
Iran is among the most heavily sanctioned international locations on the earth.
In 1979, after Iran’s US-backed shah was overthrown in an Islamic revolution led by returning exile Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the nation turned an Islamic republic after a referendum, and the US imposed its first sanctions following the Tehran embassy hostage disaster.
This has affected incomes, oil income and aviation within the nation.
Specialists assume negotiations are believable, subsequently, as strain is constructing on Trump to finish the struggle. Nonetheless, they’re cautious about making predictions about whether or not they would possibly succeed.
“I’d assess the probability of talks at 60 p.c for a number of causes,” Iranian-American economist Nader Habibi instructed Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
Habibi defined that the prices of the struggle have been excessive for all events. Trump faces strain to include the struggle from Gulf international locations, which have suffered Iranian strikes and from main financial companions due to the impact on vitality costs and inventory markets.
He additionally faces strain from voters, whom he must placate forward of US midterm elections in November this yr. Opinion polls have constantly recommended that almost all Individuals don’t assist the struggle on Iran.
In addition to struggling casualties and main disruption at residence, Iranian leaders are additionally going through strain from their neighbours to cease assaults on territory and vitality infrastructure within the area.
Habibi added that a number of mediating international locations, comparable to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye, have been in a position to set up communication channels with Iranian officers. This paves the best way for negotiations, he mentioned.
“Israel and america had been anticipating a brief struggle with a path to regime collapse. Now they’re revising their expectations and are conscious of the excessive value of a protracted struggle wherein Iran is ready to hit targets in Israel.”
