{"id":26560,"date":"2026-08-03T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=26560"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:30:23","slug":"iran-says-no-talks-are-under-way-with-united-states-after-trump-calls-off-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=26560","title":{"rendered":"Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Steve Holland, Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DUBAI\/WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump, who had cited talks he said would take \u200cplace that afternoon as justification for calling off attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over the weekend, Trump repeated a pattern that has emerged throughout the past five months: announcing \u200cplans for &#8220;massive attacks&#8221; on Iran, only to cancel them at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Would I rather make a deal? I&#8217;m not looking to kill people,&#8221; Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now \u200bwhat we&#8217;re doing is talking to them, in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon,&#8221; he said, without identifying a venue or participants for such talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei rejected the statement, saying no negotiations with the United States were taking place and no meetings were scheduled. Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Baghaei added that all Iranian negotiators were currently in the country, apart from Foreign Minister Abbas \u200cAraqchi, who was on a religious pilgrimage in Iraq. The \u2060only talks under way, he said, were discussions with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A senior Iranian source also told Reuters that no talks were planned and that Araqchi would be unavailable at least until the end of the \u2060week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post on Truth Social later on Monday, Trump called Iran&#8217;s leadership &#8220;unbelievably duplicitous&#8221;, saying they had asked for a meeting and more talks were scheduled for the &#8220;immediate future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also repeated his assertion that the U.S. Navy had total control over the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the \u200bconflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;&#8216;The \u200bUnited States Wall of Steel!&#8217; Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, \u200band nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total \u200cSurrender, is accomplished,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">REPEATED PATTERN<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monday&#8217;s developments appeared to fit a pattern that has emerged since Trump launched &#8220;Operation Epic Fury&#8221; alongside Israel more than five months ago. On several occasions, Trump has threatened military action only to later cite diplomatic contacts as a reason for stepping back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iran, however, has publicly rejected negotiations with Washington since a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict collapsed in early July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump has yet to achieve the objectives he set out at the outset of the war: dismantling Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, curbing its ability to attack regional rivals and creating conditions for Iranians to overthrow their clerical rulers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Repeated U.S. escalations \u200chave been met by escalating Iranian responses against U.S. forces in the region, Washington&#8217;s Gulf \u200bArab allies and shipping, each time ending with Trump stepping back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dispute over the Strait of \u200bHormuz remains a central point of contention. Washington says the June memorandum \u200brequired Iran to open the strategically vital waterway, while Tehran argues the text explicitly preserved its authority over shipping traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That would \u200cleave Tehran with greater leverage over the strait than before \u200bthe war, a result that would likely \u200bbe seen as a significant setback for Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far the United States has failed to compel Iran to relinquish its grip on the waterway, sending global oil prices higher and pushing up politically sensitive gasoline prices in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oil prices fell on Monday after Trump&#8217;s latest decision to \u200bhold back from military action, with Brent crude futures \u200cdown about 5% to around $83.52 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the latest reported incident in the strait, the British maritime security body UKMTO said overnight \u200bthat the master of a vessel had reported an explosion in the water near the ship. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Nandita Bose. \u200bWriting by Peter Graff and Sharon SingletonEditing by Ros Russell and Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Holland, Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI\/WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump, who had cited talks he said would take \u200cplace that afternoon as justification for calling off attacks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/5d14f5acd9c0d87f5772bc680947884bbb1209777ccc7347e6ebd9e17cc108e1\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w800_h533;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Freuters.com%2Fa7ea7c70402443ee0f74aa142e831bf9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}