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Iran on Wednes­day dis­missed an Amer­i­can plan to pause the war in the Mid­dle East and launched more at­tacks on Is­rael and Gulf Arab coun­tries, in­clud­ing an as­sault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Iran’s de­fi­ance came as Is­rael launched airstrikes on Tehran and as the Unit­ed States de­ployed para­troop­ers and more Marines to the re­gion.

Iran­ian state tele­vi­sion’s Eng­lish-lan­guage broad­cast­er quot­ed an anony­mous of­fi­cial as say­ing Iran re­ject­ed Amer­i­ca’s cease­fire pro­pos­al and has its own de­mands for an end to the fight­ing. “Iran will end the war when it de­cides to do so and when its own con­di­tions are met,” the hard­lin­er-con­trolled Press TV quot­ed the of­fi­cial as say­ing.