US President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran are not currently holding negotiations following the expiry of a 60-day deadline for the two sides to reach a final peace agreement.<\/p>\n
“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The statement came just a day after Trump told Fox News that US government representatives were in direct contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly made claims about alleged talks or the status of negotiations with Iran that Tehran has subsequently denied.<\/p>\n
Trump on Tuesday also claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that the Strait of Hormuz is open.<\/p>\n
“The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated,” Trump wrote.<\/p>\n
The 60-day deadline, set out in a preliminary agreement reached in June, expired on Monday without a final peace deal. The two sides remain at odds over several issues, including Iran’s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n
The US has imposed a naval blockade on Iranian shipping and ports, while Tehran has attacked commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital choke point between Iran and Oman through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil passed before the war erupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran are not currently holding negotiations following the expiry of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[38,34,1425,70330,188,101,69],"class_list":["post-254629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-islamic-republic-of-iran","tag-lifeguard-ryder-williams","tag-revolutionary-guards","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117117238821059246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254629","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=254629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}