TEHRAN—Iran announced Wednesday it is still reviewing a U.S. peace proposal delivered through Pakistan.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Tehran would deliver its response “after finalizing its considerations,” a process slowed by a U.S. F/A-18’s cannon fire that ventilated the rudder of the Iranian tanker Hasna and turned it into modern art.

At a White House Mother’s Day event, President Trump declared between bites of Eggs Benedict that the Iranians “want to make a deal very much” and that there had been “great progress.” He paused naval escorts in the Strait of Hormuz while the military continued its unrelated policy of shooting anything bound for Iranian ports.

Officials described the simultaneous diplomacy and strafing runs as “not contradictory.”

In unrelated news, a mother in Toledo received no call, no card, and no acknowledgment from her son, an atrocity experts say is far more likely to start an actual war.