Iran's president answers Trump's rejected cease-fire by revealing he's visited the supreme leader twice himself.

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Call it penny-ante diplomacy, if the phrase still means anything: one business day is not a negotiation, it's a courtesy call rejected before it finished ringing. It is survived by the promise to resume bombing after the midterms, a promise that predates the plan by two weeks — Trump floated the same post-midterm timeline from Doonbeg, Ireland, on September 13, the same day an Iranian cargo ship took an "unidentified projectile" in the very strait it was rejecting a plan to reopen. It was preceded in death by the ceasefire agreed in June, which Iran offered on September 1, at a summit in Kyrgyzstan, to restore in full if Washington would do the same — an offer that sat for three weeks while the U.S. broke it, per Morning Star, a second time.

Between the offer and the rejection came the rest of a war seven months old. On September 22, at the U.N., Trump warned he could annihilate the Islamic Republic absent a deal, and the Iranian delegation's reaction became its own headline afterward, per the Post. On September 23, Pezeshkian used his own address to call Washington the terrorist state, and the American delegation walked out mid-speech — the same week Macron pressed, without quite blaming anyone, for the Strait to reopen "today."…