United States President Donald Trump has issued a 15-point plan containing US-Israeli demands and offers for ending the ongoing war on Iran, Al Jazeera has confirmed.The plan has been delivered to Iran through Pakistan, which stated this week that it is ready to host peace talks.Trump has said that Washington and Tehran have had “very good and productive conversations” aimed at ending the war this week. However, Iran has consistently denied that it is holding talks with the US. In response to Trump’s claim, Iranian leaders said the US is “negotiating with itself“.The war, which the US and Israel launched on February 28 as negotiations with Iran were ongoing, has had a high cost, roiling energy and stock markets worldwide, disrupting shipping and resulting in casualties across the Middle East.As of Tuesday, 1,500 people have been killed in Iran alone and 18,551 have been injured, according to official figures from the Iranian health ministry.Days after the US and Israel began strikes on Iran, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that the Strait of Hormuz was closed to shipping. It has since begun allowing a small number of approved ships – mainly Indian, Pakistani and Chinese-flagged – to pass.This, combined with Iranian attacks on US military assets and energy infrastructure in the Gulf region, sent oil prices soaring above $100 a barrel, compared with the pre-war Brent crude price – the international benchmark – of about $65.After reports of the Trump administration’s 15-poi …
