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Iran submitted a new proposal for negotiations with the U.S. via Pakistani mediators, but President Donald Trump stated he was not satisfied with it. The ongoing ceasefire holds amid diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Casualty figures from the war and related incidents continue to mount.
Substrate placeholder — needs reviewU.S. to Pakistani negotiators on Friday, according to Iranian state media. President Donald Trump said he was 'not satisfied' with Iran's latest offer during remarks at the White House on Friday.
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U.S. and Iran are taking place by phone, Trump added. Iran handed over its latest proposal for negotiations to mediators in Pakistan on Thursday night, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported.
U.S. and Iran began on April 7. Trump said, 'They’re asking for things I can’t agree to' regarding the proposal. He called off his envoys’ trip to Pakistan last week.
U.S. Navy blockade is stopping Iran's tankers from getting out to sea. The Strait of Hormuz is the passageway through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas passes in peacetime. Trump floated a new plan this week to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held calls on Friday with counterparts from Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Azerbaijan, according to Araghchi's social media. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas spoke over phone on Friday with Araghchi.
Kallas and Araghchi discussed ongoing diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and long-term security arrangements, according to Kallas’ office.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that a response from Iran was still awaited. Narges Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran on Friday, the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said. The foundation reported that Mohammadi had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
Mohammadi was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers. Mohammadi's lawyers visited her a few days after the heart attack incident in late March. Mohammadi's hospital transfer comes after 140 days of systematic medical neglect since her arrest on December 12, the foundation said.
U.S. Navy lifting its blockade of Iranian ports earlier this week, he told Axios. The Iranian proposal would have pushed negotiations on the country’s nuclear program to a later date, according to two regional officials.
An explosion of leftover bombs killed 14 members of the Revolutionary Guard near the northern city of Zanjan on Friday, IRNA and other Iranian media reported. Zanjan is northwest of Tehran, according to the Nournews website. The explosion involved cluster bombs and air mines dropped during the fighting, the Nournews website reported.
U.S. and Iran began on February 28. More than 2,600 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war began on February 28, authorities said.
New fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah broke out in Lebanon two days after the war started on February 28, according to authorities. 24 people have died in Israel since the war began on February 28, authorities reported.
U.S. service members have been killed throughout the region since the war began on February 28, according to authorities.
Trump admitted negotiations with Iran were not going well during a Friday afternoon gaggle with reporters.
“'Iran is dying to make a deal and stated that Iran cannot be nuclear-armed.'”
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