Iran has sent its formal reply to the United States’ latest proposal aimed at ending the war between the two countries, Iranian state media said Sunday. The announcement comes during a week of renewed clashes in the Persian Gulf, underscoring the strain on a ceasefire that has held only tenuously since April.<\/p>\n
“The Islamic Republic of Iran sent today through Pakistani mediators its response to the latest text proposed by the United States to end the war,” the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported<\/a>, saying the current phase of negotiations was concentrated on halting hostilities.<\/p>\n Pakistan, which brokered the April 8 ceasefire that halted roughly 40 days of joint U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, has been the channel for the talks. The Pakistani prime minister confirmed in a separate statement Sunday that Iran’s response had been received, per IRNA<\/a>. The American delegation in past rounds has been led by Vice President JD Vance, with Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner involved.<\/p>\n The New York Times reported<\/a>, citing Iranian officials, that negotiators are pursuing a 30-day arrangement that would suspend hostilities and lift Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. A broader settlement would be the goal during that monthlong pause, the officials said.<\/p>\n The Sunday announcement landed against a backdrop of fresh skirmishes. The U.S. military said it had hit Iranian coastal targets Friday in response to fire directed at three American destroyers. The United Arab Emirates reported a new round of Iranian drone strikes on its territory Sunday.<\/p>\n Even as Iran’s response moved through Pakistan, other Iranian officials struck a more confrontational tone Sunday. Iran’s deputy parliament speaker said “the era of dictation is over” and that military operations would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, per IRNA<\/a>. Separately, Iran’s supreme leader issued new directives to the country’s armed forces “to confront enemies’ hostile actions,” the agency reported.<\/p>\n This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has sent its formal reply to the United States’ latest proposal aimed at ending the war between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,2748,11997,1690],"class_list":{"0":"post-106986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iranian-officials","10":"tag-iranian-state-media","11":"tag-the-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116551479693453493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}