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Iran has ‘open window’ to negotiate, but ‘clock is not on their side,’ Pete Hegseth says

Nypost · 🇮🇷 public Iran · · 481 words · By Samuel Chamberlain; Steven Nelson
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Iran has ‘open window’ to negotiate, but ‘clock is not on their side,’ Pete Hegseth says WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran has an “open window” for negotiations with the US — but “the clock is not on their side.” “President…

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Iran has ‘open window’ to negotiate, but ‘clock is not on their side,’ Pete Hegseth says WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran has an “open window” for negotiations with the US — but “the clock is not on their side.” “President…

Why it matters

“Iran knows that they still have an open window to choose wisely — as we said previously — choose wisely at the negotiating table,” Hegseth said.

Common ground

“All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon in meaningful and verifiable ways, or instead they can watch the regime’s fragile economic state collapse under the under unrelenting pressure of American power.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Black-and-White Fallacy: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran has an “open window” for negotiations with the US — but “the clock is not on their side.””
CORROBORATED
Multiple web search results cite Pete Hegseth making statements regarding Iran having an 'open window' for negotiations but that the timing is not favorable to Iran. The evidence shows this claim is reported across different search snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Numerous reasons have been given by different people for the 2026 Iran war, which began when the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran on 28 February 2026. The reasons are desc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_2026_Iran_wa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official and former television personality who has served since 2025 as the 29th United States Secretary of War. Hegseth studied polit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
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Claim 2: “The War Powers Resolution of 1973 says that Trump needs congressional approval to continue military action within 60 days of its commitment.”
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Wikipedia sources explicitly name the 'War Powers Resolution of 1973' and describe its purpose, confirming the requirement for congressional oversight regarding military action.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Several acts passed by the United States Congress are known as the War Powers Act: the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 the War Powers Act of 1941 the War Powers Clause the War Powers Resolution of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Act
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution, sometimes referred to as the War Powers Clause, vests in the Congress the power to declare war, in the following wording: [The Congress shall…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. ch. 33) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
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Claim 3: “The war, which began Feb. 28, has already blown past Trump’s original estimated four-week timeframe, but hostilities have largely ceased during a two-week, three-day cease-fire.”
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The specific details—that the war began on Feb 28, exceeded a four-week timeframe, and paused during a 'two-week, three-day cease-fire'—are not corroborated by multiple independent sources. The evidence mentions the start date (Feb 28, 2026) and a two-week ceasefire, but the combination of all these specific temporal markers is only present in the context of the provided search results, making it difficult to corroborate across distinct sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 4, 2025, United States president Donald Trump proposed a US takeover of the Gaza Strip and the relocation of its Palestinian inhabitants. The proposal was made during a ceasefire in the Ga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Donald_Trump_Gaza_Strip_t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The February 2025 Putin–Trump call was a formal telephone conversation between U.S. president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin that took place on February 12, 2025. The conversation i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Donald_Tr…
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Claim 4: “However, prior presidents have disregarded the deadline, with courts refusing to step in and deferring to Congress’s power to withhold funding.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that previous presidents have circumvented or ignored the resolution's provisions. Furthermore, the search results indicate that courts have generally deferred to Congress's power regarding funding and legislative authority.
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web search NEUTRAL — Presidents have consistently circumvented or ignored the War Powers Resolution 's provisions through various mechanisms—redefining operations to avoid triggering the resolution's requirements, relying…
https://govfacts.org/policy-security/military/war-powers/how…
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web search NEUTRAL — At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers held the power to declare war - not the president.
https://theconversation.com/congress-once-fought-to-limit-a-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Some have meaningful implications for the balance of powers between Congress and the President due to the nature of the activity and the claimed authority for engaging in the use of force, while other…
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Claim 5: “The president said in the Oval Office Thursday afternoon that Iran faces a cataclysmic event if the US embargo of its ports continues, due to a quirk in Iranian oil infrastructure that makes it difficult to halt the flow of petroleum to Kharg Island, which processes about 90% of exports.”
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The claim exaggerates the vulnerability by stating a 'cataclysmic event' due to a specific quirk. While evidence confirms a bombing raid on Kharg Island targeting military sites while *sparing* oil infrastructure, and that Trump made statements about obliterating targets, the evidence does not support the claim of a 'cataclysmic event' resulting from a specific, unstated 'quirk' in the infrastructure. The evidence suggests the US *avoided* damaging the oil flow.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 March 2026, the United States Air Force conducted a large bombing raid on Kharg Island, a key oil export hub off the Persian Gulf coast of Iran. The strikes targeted more than 90 Iranian militar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Kharg_Island_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارگ, Persian pronunciation: [xɒːrɡ]), also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharg_Island
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Claim 6: “US officials say that they are awaiting Iran’s reply to the latest peace offer — after a team led by Vice President JD Vance left in-person negotiations in Pakistan without a deal on April 11.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that US officials were awaiting Iran's reply to a peace offer following discussions involving Vice President JD Vance in Pakistan. The timing and context align across different reports.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician and author serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he repres…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — JD Vance has served as the 50th vice president of the United States since January 20, 2025, during the second presidency of Donald Trump. Vance, a member of the Republican Party who had previously ser…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_presidency_of_JD_Vance
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