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• Iran's parliament speaker accused the U.S. of violating three ceasefire clauses within 24 hours—Lebanon, a drone in Iranian airspace, and uranium enrichment
• Leavitt told reporters Iran's original 10-point plan was "discarded" and called enrichment a "red "line"—directly contradicting Trump's Truth Social post calling the plan "workable."
• When asked who was bombing Iran after the ceasefire took effect, Leavitt said she didn't know and would check

WASHINGTON (TDR) — Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump declared Iran's 10-point ceasefire proposal "a workable basis on which to negotiate," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday the same plan was "fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded"—and that Trump had "thrown it in the garbage."

The big picture: The U.S. and Iran are operating from incompatible accounts of what the ceasefire agreement actually says. That gap is now the central obstacle heading into Islamabad talks Friday — and Iran's delegation is bringing a list of violations before negotiations have even opened.

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• Trump's Tuesday Truth Social post described Iran's proposal as the basis for a two-week negotiation period; Leavitt's Wednesday briefing described a different, "condensed" plan as the actual basis—without producing it
• Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf cited Trump's own Truth Social post as evidence the 10-point framework is binding: "the President of the United States has clearly stated in his Truth that the Islamic Republic of Iran's 10-Point Proposal is a 'workable basis on which to negotiate.'"

Driving the news: Ghalibaf posted a formal list of three U.S. On Wednesday, violations of Iran's framework framed the dispute around Trump's own words.

• Violation one: Lebanon — the ceasefire, Iran says, covers all fronts; the U.S. and Israel say it does not
• Violation two: a drone entered Iranian airspace after the truce took effect; the IRGC said it destroyed a Hermes 900 drone over Fars Province
• Violation three: the U.S. denial of Iran's right to uranium enrichment, which Iran's 10-point plan — as published in Farsi — explicitly claimed

What they're saying: The two sides are not just in disagreement — they are each using the other side's public statements as evidence.

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• Leavitt — "The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump."
• Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi on X—"The US must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both."
• Leavitt, when asked by Reuters correspondent Trevor Hunnicutt who was bombing Iran after the ceasefire took effect, said, "Obviously, I'll have to go back and check with the national security team. I'm standing out here with all of you. But I will do that, and we will get you an answer, OK?"

Yes, but: Trump himself complicated Leavitt's "garbage" framing hours later — posting on Truth Social that the deal's acceptable terms exist but will be negotiated "behind closed doors," while warning that outside parties circulating "Numerous Agreements, Lists, and Letters" were "total Fraudsters, Charlatans, and WORSE."

• That post neither confirmed nor denied the 10-point framework — leaving both readings available and neither authoritative
• Vance acknowledged the Lebanon confusion came from "a legitimate misunderstanding," an admission that undercuts Leavitt's claim that the terms were always clear

Between the lines: The White House's conflicting accounts are not a communications failure — they are a negotiating strategy with a short shelf life. Keeping the framework ambiguous lets Trump claim victory domestically while preserving flexibility in Islamabad. But Iran is doing the same thing, and the gap between the Farsi and English versions of the 10-point plan was almost certainly not accidental. Both governments built deniability into the text. That works until one side needs to enforce it.

• Leavitt was also unable to confirm who bombed Iran's Lavan oil refinery after the ceasefire took effect—a violation of the truce regardless of which party was responsible
• Hegseth contradicted a separate White House talking point at the same Pentagon briefing: he said Iranian regime change "was not our "objective"—directly at odds with Trump's Truth Social claim of "Complete and Total Regime Change."

What's next:

• U.S.-Iran delegations meet in Islamabad Friday; the definition of the framework itself is now a pre-negotiation dispute
• Iran threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire entirely if Israel continues Lebanon strikes
• Leavitt said enrichment remains a "red "line"—Iran's framework, in Farsi, says enrichment is non-negotiable in the other direction

If both governments built their ceasefire around terms the other side says were never agreed to, who exactly is holding the deal together — and what happens in Islamabad when the ambiguity runs out?

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This report was compiled using information from Mediaite, NPR, ABC News, CBS News, The Jerusalem Post, CNN, The New Republic, and ABC7.

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