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Iran yesterday rejected a 15-point ceasefire proposal by the United States, setting out its own conditions for peace, according to Iranian state media.

“Iran will end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met,” reported Press TV, quoting a “senior political-security official”.

The official offered Iran’s own five-point plan, which consisted of a halt to killings of its officials, the means to ensure no other war is waged against it, reparations for the war, the end of hostilities and Iran’s “exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz”.

Earlier in the day, Iran’s military took a jab at the Trump administration’s push for a deal to end the war, saying Washington is “negotiating with itself”.

US President Donald ​Trump has sent a 15-point plan to Iran via Pakistan, which has offered to mediate a possible end to the war, a senior Iranian source, on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

The plan -- which has not been made public -- reportedly includes Iran dismantling nuclear facilities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

“Has the level of your inner struggle reached ‌the ⁠stage of you negotiating with yourself?” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the unified command of Iran’s armed forces, ​Khatam al-Anbiya ​Central Headquarters, told the state media.

“People like us can never get ​along with people like you,” Zolfaqari ​said, adding that investments and pre-war energy prices would not return as long as ⁠Washington ​does not accept ​that regional stability is guaranteed by Iranian armed forces.

Zolfaqari’s remarks came a day after ​Trump said Tehran wants to ​make a deal “so badly” to end the ⁠war.

Despite Trump’s optimism that a deal with Tehran is in sight, reports suggest that the US was sending more troops to the Middle East for a possible ground intervention.

Fighting in the nearly four-week war raged on yesterday, with Iran targeting US assets across the Middle East with a fresh volley of missiles and US-Israeli strikes hitting key military targets in Iran, Lebanon and Iraq.

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