Trump has not set deadline to receive 'unified' proposal from Iran: White House

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has not set a firm deadline for Iran to submit a "unified" peace proposal, the White House said Wednesday, dismissing a report that he has given Iran three to five days to provide its coherent response. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made the remarks during a press availability, stressing that the president is "generously" offering "a bit of flexibility" to get a proposal from Iran, a country that she said grapples with "a lot of internal division." "The president has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal, unlike some of the reporting I've seen today," she said. "Ultimately, the timeline will be dictated by the commander-in-chief." On the eve of the ceasefire deadline set for Wednesday (Washington time), Trump said that at the request of Pakistan, he will extend the ceasefire until Iran submits a unified proposal, and bilateral discussions are "concluded, one way or the other." He called the Tehran government "seriously fractured." Trump's extension of the ceasefire was initially viewed by some as an indefinite one

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