India, May 18 -- In what is being seen as a catastrophic scenario in the Middle East conflagration, the fragile Iran-US truce, brokered by third actors, may be on the verge of total collapse after the United States "flatly rejected" Iran's latest peace proposal. A senior US official and a source who spoke on condition of anonymity told Axios that the Trump administration hasn't found any meaningful improvement in Tehran's counterproposal sent via Pakistan. The new proposal is "insufficient" for a deal, the source said, thrusting the military escalation back onto the table.

US President Donald Trump is considering resuming the war in Iran, the source familiar with the matter told the network, adding that the US Commander-in-Chief is expec...