KEY POINTS
- Iran on Sunday denied it would participate in new peace talks with the United States, its state news agency reported.
- President Donald Trump had said U.S. negotiators would head to Pakistan for the next round of peace talks with Iran on Monday.
- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, reiterated Iran’s intention to restrict shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran on Sunday denied it would participate in new peace talks with the United States, its state news agency reported on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said its negotiators would head to Pakistan on Monday for a second round of peace talks with Iran.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency cited no specific source in its report that Iran had rejected the talks.
