Trump Rejects Iran's Deal; 5 Arrested in Alleged U.S. Base Bomb Plot | 9/28/26 FIRST LOOK

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1:26bombings at a military base used by the U.S. Air Force for strikes on Iran. Cops are looking at the Iranian regime. And why so many adult children are cutting off their parents. Conservatives have been warning this would eat the family. Let's dive in. Trump rejects Iran's deal and still expects talks. One day after he rejected an Iranian proposal to end the war, President Trump told Axios on Sunday he expects U.S. negotiators to engage Iran again this week. Qatar and other regional mediators are trying to revive talks. The sides are far apart. Iran wants the conversation on the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S.

2:11naval blockade. The Trump administration wants nuclear concessions. Two regional sources confirm Trump's comment about more talks this week. They expect another round of indirect dialogue. Whether the gaps can be bridged is another question. I expect more talks with Iran this week. They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make. It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand. Asked if he is considering resuming strikes, I am always thinking about it. In the meantime, he said the U.S. military is moving a lot of oil out of Hormuz. Over the weekend, he said, the largest amount of oil since the war began went through, more than 20 million barrels.

2:58A U.S. defense official confirmed it. Friday night, 22 million barrels exported through the strait. On Fox News Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said he expects Iran's economy could collapse probably within the next two weeks, adding they're going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing. Here is what Tehran put on the table and what Trump killed on Saturday. Reopen the strait and restart nuclear talks in a week, if the United States lifts the naval blockade, removes sanctions on oil sales, and reinstates a regional ceasefire. Trump said no. A US official and two regional sources say Qatari mediators are still shuttling.

3:44A regional source with knowledge of the indirect talks said Qatar took the original Iranian proposal to both sides and then floated a compromised text. What to watch? Over the weekend, those mediators went back and forth separately with Iranian and U.S. negotiators on changes to the language. They are expected to meet separately with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi and Steve Whitcoff as early as Monday. Arachi told NBC News on Sunday that despite Trump's rejection, Iran still wants a diplomatic solution. Midterms are not part of Iran's calculations, he said. We only care about our national interests.

4:26We are ready for negotiations. Although we heard from President Trump that he's rejecting this deal, we are still waiting for an official response through the mediators. Iran wants the blockade gone and the oil flowing before it gives up the nuclear file. Trump is not buying a year-old deal after they overplayed the hand. Oil is moving. Besant thinks the clock on their economy is measured in days. Talks can happen. The terms are still American. Five arrested over an alleged van bomb plot at a U.S. base in Britain. British police on Sunday arrested five suspected terrorists accused of plotting a van bombing at a U.K.

5:10military base the U.S. Air Force has used for strikes on Iran. Dramatic pictures showed the suspects held at gunpoint, stripped to the waist, after officers suspected they might have been wearing suicide vests, according to reports. Police believe there could be a link to the Iranian regime. They are also looking at other modeds, the Telegraph reported. A local resident, Julian Tudsbury, said cops were tipped to three suspicious vans in the village of Welford early Sunday. The base is about 90 miles from London. It is the U.S. Air Force's command outpost for operations from Europe and has been used for American strikes on Iranian missile sites that have been hitting ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

5:53In July, Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned Britain's government not to let U.S. bombers fly from that base. It houses the U.S. 500 First Combat Support Wing headquarters and the 420th Air Base Squadron. Police declared a major incident and evacuated Welford. A roughly 400-yard cordon went up around the three vehicles. 85 households were cleared while examinations took place. Residents were woken at 6 a.m. by police banging on doors and told to leave immediately. They were taken to a nearby community center. Police were then banging on the door, so I went downstairs in my dressing gown. There were several police, three police cars in the drive.

6:38and they said you need to evacuate. There's been a major incident, said he couldn't elaborate. The five are held on suspicion of possessing explosives. MI5 is assisting counter-terror police. Sources familiar with the investigation told The Telegraph, Iranian agents are likely to have been directly involved, not just running proxies. Gloucestershire police say the threat was contained, and the investigation continues. About 30 emergency vehicles, police, ambulances, fire engines, were seen in nearby Fairford. A helicopter flew overhead. A USAF spokesperson said U.S. and British personnel remain vigilant and will take appropriate actions to protect everyone at the base.

7:23New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is being kept updated, a government spokesperson said. Locals say security around the base has jumped in recent weeks. RAF Fairford has a runway of almost two miles reinforced for heavy bombers, B-1s and B-52s, that have been used against Iran. You do not need a think tank to connect this. America hits Iranian missile sites from a British runway. The Guard warns London. Then vans show up in the village next door, and five men are on the ground at gunpoint. If the Iran link holds, this is the war coming to the gate of an allied base. The estrangement epidemic.

8:10When Robin Brill walked into a conference for estranged parents this summer in Chicago, she was stunned. More than 200 moms and dads filled the chairs. Some had come from Australia. Another 250 watched a live stream. Brill's 28-year-old son cut contact three years ago. Like the others, she wanted answers. We want to know what makes all these kids want to do this, says Brill, a 60-year-old retired event planner from Atlanta, because whatever the individual case may be, they are all saying the same thing. My mom is a narcissist. My dad is self-absorbed. It's your fault something is wrong. Many experts now talk about adult child estrangement the way people once talked about the 1970s divorce wave, an epidemic driven by big cultural shifts.

9:01This time, the forces are social media algorithms, new therapy fads, and a definition of trauma that keeps expanding. William Doherty, therapist and professor emeritus of family social science at the University of Minnesota, were at a cultural tipping point. A confluence of forces is leading to certain actions and choices that were considered taboo before, now becoming acceptable and even celebrated, and then they spread via social contagion. Hard post-pandemic numbers are scarce. Carl Pillemer's 2020 book Fault Lines found 10 % of Americans estranged from a parent or child at any given time, and 25 % cut off from some close relative.

9:46Experts still say something shifted. Since the pandemic, social media talk about estrangement has exploded. Adult children post about how cutting off mom and dad improved their mental health. Estranged parents, Laura Wellington, doormat mom, say the kids are misguided and spoiled. A new industry followed, therapists and estrangement coaches, books, podcasts, support groups, Zoom consults. Mathias Barker, a psychotherapist who founded estrangement.com, says he has 4.2 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, all of them since 2020. One camp says cutoff is being destigmatized and can heal people who had harmful parents.

10:33Critics say it licenses selfishness, self-delusion, and wrecked families. Most cutoffs start with the young adult, experts say, a youth mental health crisis, no practice at hard conversations because everything is text, and identity over family. This is the most surveilled generation in history, helicopter parents and phones, and many struggle to become independent, says Joshua Coleman, a psychologist who specializes in estrangement and led the family summit in Chicago. At the same time, they face parents who are more anxious in an uncertain world. For some, estrangement is their first chance at adolescent rebellion, Coleman says.

11:14The drivers, as the researchers lay them out, concept creep. Some adult children have real grounds for distance, physical or emotional abuse, but the definition of harm has moved. Peter Anderson, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Massachusetts, surveyed about 1 ,000 estranged parents. 82 % said the rising use of labels like toxic, abusive, or unsafe fed the cutoff. Young adults consider ordinary conflict to be much worse than it once was. Researchers call that concept creep. New Rules for Family Rin Retzek of Ohio State calls it a culture clash. Older parents grew up with compulsory kinship.

11:59Family is forever, even when it is hard. That is yielding to democratized kinship. You stay only if the relationship scores well on accountability, growth, mutual respect, and emotional safety. Retzek compares it to mid-century marriage. Once you decided you could leave a spouse, the same logic started leaking into every other bond. TikTok and the algorithm. Most experts put social media, especially TikTok, near the top. The app blew up in the US in 2020 when people were locked inside. Watch one video about cutting off your parents and the feed becomes an estrangement tunnel. Other platforms copied the model.

12:41No contact got sold to millions by influencers whose credential is that they did it themselves. Short video leaves no room for a particular family's facts. Therapy flipped. For decades, therapists pushed families to talk it out. Doherty says the culture now blames parents for everything. Instead of testing a client's story or talking to other relatives, many therapists began blessing the cutoff. Therapists gave estrangement the professional, authoritative stamp of approval. This breakdown shouldn't be mysterious. If every disagreement is abuse, every parent is a narcissist, and a stranger on TikTok is your clinician, the family loses to the feed.

13:26Some homes are truly unsafe. A lot of what is being sold as healing is just a generation practicing rebellion with better vocabulary and calling it medicine. And that's your first look this Monday. Quick recap. Trump rejected Iran's lift the blockade first proposal, still expects talks this week, is always thinking about strikes, moved 22 million barrels through Hormuz on Friday night, and Besant says Tehran's economy may have two weeks. Five terror suspects are in British custody over an alleged van bomb plot at the U.S. bomber base at Fairford, with police looking at Iran. And America's family breakup now has conferences, coaches, and a professional class that treats cutting off your parents as self-care.

14:14We'll keep following all of it. I'm Dave AI. Thanks for starting your day with First Look. See you tomorrow.

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