“Reasonable and generous.”

That’s Iran’s counter-proposal to Donald Trump’s terms for ending the war.

The description of the Iranian reply comes from Tehran’s foreign ministry. Trump doesn’t agree with the characterization. “I don’t like it,” he said flatly, on Sunday, before deriding Iran’s belated response as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”

Among other things, Tehran offered to dilute a portion of its near-bomb-grade uranium and transfer the rest of its stockpile to a neutral country, but on one condition: The material — the “nuclear dust,” as Trump calls it — be returned in the event a mutually agreeable deal on the Iranian nuclear program isn’t ultimately reached. Or if a deal is reached, but the US later renounces it, as Trump did the JCPOA.

The IRGC flatly refused, however, a US demand that Iran’s nuclear facilities be decommissioned. The issue’s so sensitive to the Iranians that state-affiliated media initially disputed the Wall Street Journal‘s (plainly factual) account of the country’s response to Trump, insisting there was no mention of the nuclear issue.

The regime’s propaganda outlets subsequently described America’s demands as infeasible — equivalent to “surrender.” “The goal is to uphold the rights of the Iranian nation,” Masoud Pezeshkian said, on social media. If Iran negotiates, “it does not mean surrender or retreat,” he added.

Around the same time Iranian media set about spinning the regime’s counter-proposal as an act of defiance rather than a diplomatic exchange, Benjamin Netanyahu showed up on “60 Minutes.”

“[The war’s] not over because there’s still nuclear material — enriched uranium that has to be taken out,” he told Major Garrett. Asked how the US and Israel might go about removing the bomb fuel, Netanyahu was direct. Then he was evasive. Here’s the exchange:

PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: You go in, and you take (LAUGH) it out.

MAJOR GARRETT: With what? Special Forces from Israel, Special Forces from the United States working in tandem under international supervision? How?

PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Well, I’m not gonna talk about military means, but the pres — what President Trump has said to me, “I want to go in there.” I mean, he’s said that publicly. He’s said it — and I think he’s right. He’s very committed to this. And — and I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.

MAJOR GARRETT: What if there isn’t an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?

PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Well, you’re gonna ask me these questions. I’m gonna dodge them, so you can ask me that second time, third time, and I’ll dodge it second time, third time.

A political novice Netanyahu is not.

Iran’s response to Trump also included a demand for war reparations, as well as some control over who gets to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, when and, quite possibly, what the cost of transit might be. Tehran also wants its assets unfrozen and sanctions relief.

The regime spent the rest of Monday making vague threats along familiar lines. A spokesman for the regular army alluded to “surprises” and said Iran’s ready and willing to open new fronts in the war, for example.

Tasnim later described a meeting between Ali Abdollahi (who runs the umbrella agency responsible for making sure Iran’s regular army is on the same page as the IRGC) and Mojtaba Khamenei. There’s no telling whether any such meeting actually took place.

In an exclusive interview with Sharyl Attkisson on “Full Measure,” Trump said of the Guards, “It’s a difficult group.” “Where are we in the war if we have not yet gotten the nuclear material — the enriched uranium — from them?” Attkisson wondered. “Well we’ll get that at some point, whenever we want” Trump said.

He continued: “We have surveillance, you know I did a thing called ‘Space Force.’ And they are watching [Isfahan] every — if somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge. We have that very well surveilled. If anybody were to get near the place we’ll know about it and we’ll blow ’em up.”