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White House Says Iran Replaced Its 10-Point Plan With a Workable Basis for Negotiation

April 9, 2026 · The White House · 0:01:57

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What happened

A White House spokesperson said Iran’s original 10-point plan was, in the spokesperson’s words, fundamentally unserious and unacceptable, and was discarded by President Trump and his negotiating team, according to the White House upload of the statement. The spokesperson said some outlets had falsely reported that plan as acceptable to the United States.

The spokesperson said that with the President’s deadline approaching and the U.S. military striking Iran, the regime put forward a different, condensed plan that the President and his team determined was a workable basis on which to negotiate and align with the administration’s own 15-point proposal. The spokesperson said the President’s red lines — namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran — had not changed.

The spokesperson said the sensitive negotiations would take place behind closed doors over the following two weeks so long as the Strait of Hormuz remained open without limitations or delays, warned the media against narratives the spokesperson said had no basis in fact, and said what Iran says publicly differs from what it communicates privately to the United States.

Why it matters

The statement is the White House’s on-record framing of how the Iran talks began — a rejected plan, a replacement proposal and a two-week closed-door window conditioned on an open strait — as the administration stated it.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the spokesperson’s statement that negotiations would proceed over the following two weeks so long as the Strait of Hormuz remained open, on the basis of the U.S. 15-point proposal and an unchanged red line against Iranian enrichment in Iran. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no verdict is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “Never underestimate Trump’s ability to successfully advance America’s interests and broker peace”, 2026-04-09 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-04-09). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.