Trump says Iran cease-fire ‘on massive life support’ — with just a ‘1% chance of living’
By Steven Nelson Published May 11, 2026 Updated May 11, 2026, 12:51 p.m. ET
(Just do it, President Trump. We all know there's only one way to resolve this.)
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that the month-long cease-fire between the US and Iran “is on massive life support” after Tehran’s latest peace offer contained several inflammatory provisions and no nuclear concessions.
“It’s on life support,” Trump told reporters during a maternal health event in the Oval Office.
“Dr [Mehmet] Oz, life support is not a good thing,” he said, turning to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services boss.
“I would say the cease-fire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living,'” the president added.
The cease-fire has been in effect since April 8, though both countries have launched limited attacks during the shaky truce.
Trump further claimed Monday that Iranian negotiators agreed “two days ago” to relinquish about 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade enriched uranium, before omitting the provision from a bellicose document demanding that Tehran be treated as the war’s victor.
“They did two days ago. They said, ‘You’re going to have to take it.’ We were going to go with them, but they changed their mind because they didn’t put it in the paper,” Trump said.
“They told me, ‘Number one, you’re getting it, but you’re going to have to take it out,’ because the site was so obliterated that there’s only one or two countries in the world that could get it. It’s so deep and got hit so hard that there’s no way they have the equipment to move it. ‘You and China are the only two countries in the world that could take it out.’
“So we talked about it. They said, ‘You’ll have to take it out, because we don’t have the capability of doing it.’”
Trump previously has claimed that Iran agreed to his core war demands only for the Islamic Republic to promptly deny it.
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Iranian state media said that the country’s latest peace offer demanded reparations from Washington, a recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and an end to US sanctions.
“How stupid. Are they stupid people?” Trump said of the offer.
“They think that, well, I’ll get tired of this, or I’ll get bored, or I’ll have some pressure. But there’s no pressure. There’s no pressure at all.”
“We’re going to have a complete victory,” Trump went on. “We’ve already, in theory, had a complete victory from the military standpoint.”
The president said that Iran’s peace negotiations are complicated by a struggle between “moderates” and “lunatics.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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