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What to know about Iran’s 10-point plan that Trump called ‘workable basis’ for talks

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by Max Rego - 04/08/26 7:30 PM ET

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Amid the tenuous two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, it is unclear what exactly is in the 10-point plan from the Iranian government that President Trump deemed a “workable basis” on which to negotiate.

While the Iranian government publicly released a 10-point proposal Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said later that day it does not match the latest plan from Tehran that the Trump administration agreed to.

Ahead of negotiations between U.S. and Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, this weekend, here is what to know about the Iranian proposal.

Differences between Iranian plans

On Wednesday, the Iranian government released its 10-point peace proposal, which it initially crafted in response to the 15-point plan the Trump administration submitted to Tehran through Pakistani intermediaries.

That plan, released by Iranian state media, includes the U.S. guaranteeing future nonaggression toward Iran, recognizing Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, ending hostilities throughout the region, withdrawing militarily from the Middle East and providing reparations to Iran, according to The New York Times.

It also reportedly calls on the U.S. to accept Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment, lift all primary sanctions on Iran and end all secondary sanctions on countries that do business with Iran. The proposal also asks for the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Security Council, both of which the U.S. has representation on, to terminate all resolutions condemning Iran.

But during a Wednesday press briefing at the White House, Leavitt provided a different picture. The press secretary told reporters that the initial 10-point plan proposed by Iran was “fundamentally unserious, unacceptable and completely discarded” by the administration.

“It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team,” Leavitt said of the initial 10-point Iranian plan.

Then, with Trump’s 8 p.m. EDT deadline on Tuesday for the Iranian military to end its restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz “fast approaching,” the Iranian government “acknowledged reality” and “put forward a more reasonable” plan to the administration, Leavitt noted.

From there, the president and other U.S. officials “determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15-point proposal,” she added.

“The president’s red lines, namely, the end of [uranium] enrichment in Iran, have not changed,” Leavitt said. “And the idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd.”

It is unclear what is in the latest 10-point plan proposed by Tehran. When reached out for clarification, the White House referred The Hill to Leavitt’s remarks.

Negotiations in Islamabad set for this weekend

Upon announcing the ceasefire, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited delegations from the U.S. and Iran to Islamabad to “further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.”

Leavitt said Wednesday that Vice President Vance, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to Pakistan for the first round of talks, set for Saturday morning local time.

However, ahead of those talks, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf accused the U.S. of violating three tenets of the 10-point peace plan: the conclusion of hostilities, in the form of the Israeli military continuing to strike Lebanon and the entry of an “intruding drone” into Iranian airspace, and denial of Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment.

While Sharif said Tuesday that the two-week ceasefire applied to Israel’s strikes in Lebanon, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the opposite Tuesday.

“The two-weeks ceasefire does not include Lebanon,” the office wrote on the social platform X.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, the international spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said in a video that the IDF struck 100 Hezbollah military targets across Lebanon in one minute on Wednesday.

Those attacks killed at least 254 people and injured at least 1,165, the Lebanese General Directorate of Civil Defense wrote on Facebook. Heba Morayef, the regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said that marked the most casualties in a single day since Israel began striking Lebanon on March 2.

“Even before today’s attack, which the Israeli military referred to as oper