Iran separately submitted its own ten-day ceasefire offer to Washington while still under strikes1. The move arrived alongside the mediators' joint text rather than as an acceptance of it, leaving the administration two competing truces of the same length to weigh at once.
Tehran drafting its own pause, rather than signing one handed to it, is a bid to own the sequencing of any halt. It fits a pattern from earlier in the war, when Iran declared the Islamabad memorandum suspended rather than let an externally brokered framework set its terms. A proposal written in Tehran lets Iran define what a pause covers, the strikes, the blockade, or the nuclear question, before Washington's conditions narrow it. Neither Washington nor Tehran has accepted the other's text, and either set of demands could gut the other's.
