US president says Tehran won’t be allowed nuclear weapons, citing agreement with British monarch during high-profile visit

Around 20 percent of global LNG trade normally transits the strait in peacetime

US president posts on Truth Social

Tehran insists US can no longer 'dictate' policy to others

Peace talks between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war and fully reopen the vital strait have so far proven inconclusive since a ceasefire came into force.

Seventy-three boys and 47 girls were killed in the February 28 strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab, state broadcaster IRIB and local media reported.

Latest Iranian plan would set aside nuclear issue until after war ends, Iranian sources say

Speaking afterward to reporters, Iravani complained that countries only criticized Iran and not a naval blockade declared by the United States

Iran has made a new proposal to the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war, postponing nuclear negotiations to a later stage to break the deadlock in the high-stakes talks, reports said.

Financial gains from the strait should be paid in the local rial currency, says Iran's head of the national security commission

Oil prices climb back to $108 as Hormuz remains closed

Move comes as war damage disrupts production at major steel plants, state media reports

Axios reported citing a US official and two sources with knowledge of the matter

"The US approaches caused the previous round of negotiations, despite progress, to fail to reach its goals because of the excessive demands," Araghchi was quoted as saying by Iranian state media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday, Russian state media reported

Iran’s foreign minister returned to Islamabad for more consultations yesterday, as international mediators tried to keep peace talks on track despite US President Donald Trump calling off his envoys’ planned trip.

Says State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam

Trump had earlier said, however, that "you never know" if it could be linked to the Iran war, and said investigators were working on the motive of the shooter whom he described as a "lone wolf."

The deadlock leaves the world's biggest economy and a major oil power locked in a confrontation that has already pushed energy prices to multi-year highs, stoked inflation and darkened global growth prospects.

US President Donald Trump yesterday announced he had cancelled his envoys’ planned trip to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran yesterday, but said that did not mean an immediate resumption of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.