Both Trump and Ghalibaf have signaled ‘progress’ in talks to end the war Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz after reopening it on Friday The ceasefire between US-Israel and Iran is set to expire on Wednesday<\/p>\n
Here is a round-up of the latest developments from the US-Israeli war with Iran and the wider Middle East on Sunday, April 19, 2026:<\/p>\n
Iran’s top negotiator Ghalibaf says there is ‘progress’ in talks with US<\/p>\n
Speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said that there has been “progress” in talks with the US “but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain.”<\/p>\n
Speaking in a televised address, Ghalibaf, who is negotiating the terms of bringing a permanent end to the war started by Israel and the US, said, “We are still far from the final discussion.”<\/p>\n
“There are some issues on which we insist … They also have red lines. But these issues could be just one or two,” he added.<\/p>\n
The US and Iran entered a ceasefire on April 8 that is set to expire on Wednesday, unless it is extended.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said that “very good conversations” were going on with Iran but warned Tehran against trying to “blackmail” the United States.<\/p>\n
Previous talks between the US, led by Vice President JD Vance, and Iran, led by Ghalibaf, in Pakistan, ended without a deal after a marathon night of negotiations.<\/p>\n
One of the main sticking points for both sides is Iran’s nuclear ambitions, with the US demanding Iran hand over all of its nuclear material.<\/p>\n
Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n
Welcome to our live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Here are the most important headlines from the last couple of days:<\/p>\n
Iran once again closed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after reopening it on Friday The Iranian U-turn came as the US continued its blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas Iran said it would keep the strait closed until the US ends its blockade A top official warned that a final peace deal still remained ‘far’ off US President Donald Trump threatened withdrawal from the ceasefire with Iran if a long-term deal to end the war is not agreed upon by Wednesday<\/p>\n
Stay tuned as we bring you the latest developments in the US-Israel with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Trump and Ghalibaf have signaled ‘progress’ in talks to end the war Iran has closed the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16433,34,69,392,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-72382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-ghalibaf","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-tehran","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-us-israel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116429224803678509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382","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=72382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}