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While Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has repeatedly emphasized that Tehran is committed to holding indirect talks with Washington, a prominent politician in Tehran argues that President Donald Trump is unlikely to accept such negotiations.

Iran’s formal response to US President Donald Trump’s recent letter reaffirms longstanding positions: no negotiations on its ballistic missile program or regional allies, and no nuclear talks beyond the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal, The New Arab reported Saturday.

The United States on Friday intensified its campaign against Iran-aligned groups, conducting extensive airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen and pressuring Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The US government has resumed nearly all Iran-related aid programs that were paused under President Donald Trump’s executive order in January, Iran International can confirm based on an obtained document and interviews with grant recipients.

Canadian citizens born in Iran are being blocked from entering the United States after undergoing questioning at the border, the Canadian daily newspaper Globe and Mail reported citing immigration lawyers and advisers.

US president Donald Trump warned Iran on Friday that “bad, bad things” would happen if Tehran did not agree to a nuclear deal, a day after Iran declined to have direct talks under his stepped-up sanctions.

Canada’s main opposition leader Pierre Poilievre ruled out ever negotiating with Tehran, telling Iran International that the Islamic Republic cannot be trusted.

A senior Iranian commander on Friday called on the country and its regional allies to prepare for what he described as a “major operation,” warning that the United States and Israel were at their weakest point in decades.

Iran’s parliament speaker on Friday accused the US of using nuclear talks to pressure Tehran into relinquishing its defense capabilities, amid tensions over a recent letter from President Donald Trump demanding missile restrictions.

An ongoing US military campaign must defeat Houthi fighters in Yemen to prove Washington's resolve to their Iranian backers, US Senator John Hoeven told Iran International.

The US Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to seize $47 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly one million barrels of Iranian oil, alleging the funds benefited the IRGC and its Qods Force, both designated as terrorist organizations.

Iran has not closed the door to dialogue with the US, a senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Thursday, though said the pressure being placed on Tehran amounts to what he called psychological warfare.

US immigration agents have detained an Iranian doctoral student at the University of Alabama amid renewed scrutiny of the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on international students.

The US military has deployed long range bombers at a strategic Indian Ocean airbase, a spokesperson told Iran International, as Washington ramps up rhetoric against Iran and continues a bombing campaign on Houthi fighters in Yemen.

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth urged public messaging emphasizing Iran's support of the Houthis in texts leaked to an American journalist, saying the public was largely ignorant about the Yemeni militia.

The back-and-forth between Iranian and US leaders over Tehran’s nuclear program and the prospect of negotiations has changed little since at least 2016.

A prominent political commentator in Tehran has suggested that the best way for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to break the current deadlock is to hold a national referendum on the question of war or peace with the United States.

Sanctioning a Chinese refinery for buying Iranian oil is the first real sign of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” on Tehran, the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board said on Sunday.