{"id":209916,"date":"2026-05-06T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/tehran-has-no-plans-to-participate-in-new-talks-state-media-reports-as-it-accuses-us-of-violating-ceasefire-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:31:54","slug":"tehran-has-no-plans-to-participate-in-new-talks-state-media-reports-as-it-accuses-us-of-violating-ceasefire-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/tehran-has-no-plans-to-participate-in-new-talks-state-media-reports-as-it-accuses-us-of-violating-ceasefire-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran has \u2018no plans to participate\u2019 in new talks, state media reports, as it accuses US of violating ceasefire – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reported response comes hours after Trump announced delegation to Islamabad, having earlier threatened to raze Iran\u2019s infrastructure
Tehran is not currently planning to take part in new talks with the US, Iran state media reported on Sunday evening, as its military accused America of violating a fragile ceasefire between the two countries, hours after Donald Trump<\/a> said he was dispatching negotiators to Islamabad.
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday<\/a> that an Iranian cargo ship that tried to get past the US-enforced blockade near the strait of Hormuz had been seized. \u201cWe have full custody of their ship, and are seeing what\u2019s on board!\u201d Trump wrote on social media.
Iran\u2019s military said the ship had been travelling from China. \u201cWe warn that the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/a> will soon respond and retaliate against this armed piracy by the US military,\u201d state media quotes an Iranian military spokesperson as saying.
The incident late on Sunday raised the possibility that the ceasefire could fail before negotiators were able to reconvene in Pakistan<\/a>.
The US had said it was sending a delegation to Pakistan on Monday for another possible round of talks aimed at ending the US-Israeli war in Iran. But comments from Iranian state media that there were \u201ccurrently no plans to participate in the next round,\u201d appeared to imperil this latest round of negotiations before they had even begun.
The return of a US delegation to Islamabad, led by the vice-president, JD Vance, with Trump\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, comes after Iran on Saturday reimposed tight restrictions<\/a> on the transit of commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz, reversing an agreement made hours before to reopen the strategic waterway, over the US\u2019s refusal to lift its naval blockade.
\u201cIran stated that its absence from the second round of talks stemmed from what it called Washington\u2019s excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, and the continuing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire,\u201d Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency wrote.
The war, entering its eighth week, has killed thousands in Iran and Lebanon<\/a> and sent oil prices surging because of the strait\u2019s closure.
In an interview aired on state television late on Saturday, Iran\u2019s chief negotiator, the parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, had said \u201cthere will be no retreat in the field of diplomacy\u201d, while acknowledging a wide gap remained between the sides.
Trump said on Sunday that any talks in Islamabad, which would come before the two-week ceasefire expires on Wednesday, were the \u201clast chance\u201d for Iran to agree to a peace deal.
\u201cIf Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown up,\u201d he told Fox News. Trump then reiterated a threat made earlier that the US would specifically destroy Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges if it did not sign the agreement.
He said the deal the US is offering, which entails reopening the strait and ensuring Iran does not have enriched uranium, was a \u201cvery fair and reasonable deal\u201d and unless Iran accepts, he vowed to knock out \u201cevery single Power Plant\u201d and \u201cevery single Bridge\u201d.
Pakistan\u2019s foreign affairs ministry said the country\u2019s deputy prime minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, had spoken on Sunday with Abbas Araghchi, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, during a phone call that included discussion on \u201cthe need for continued dialogue and engagement as essential to resolving the current issues as soon as possible for promoting the peace and stability in the region and beyond\u201d.
A phone call was also planned between Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif.
Washington\u2019s envoy to the UN, Mike Waltz, told ABC News that he believed a new round of talks would lead to an \u201cincredibly consequential\u201d outcome.
For Tehran, the strait of Hormuz\u2019s closure \u2013 imposed after the US and Israel launched the Iran war on 28 February during talks over Tehran\u2019s nuclear programme \u2013 is perhaps its most powerful weapon, inflicting political pain on Trump.
The US president\u2019s renewed threat to hit Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges fits a pattern of such warnings throughout the war, several of which preceded moves to de-escalate.
He abruptly announced the ceasefire two weeks ago, just hours after declaring that Iran\u2019s \u201cwhole civilisation will die tonight\u201d.
Trump accused Iran of violating the two-week ceasefire by firing at two merchant ships in the strait after a brief uptick in transit attempts on Saturday.
Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran\u2019s foreign ministry, said the US blockade of Iran\u2019s ports and coastline had violated the ceasefire and was \u201cunlawful and criminal\u201d.
By \u201cdeliberately inflicting collective punishment on the Iranian population, it amounts to war crime and crimes against humanity\u201d, Baghaei wrote on social media.
Roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil trade normally passes through the strait, and the global energy crisis threatens to deepen as the war drags on. Iran on Sunday held firm on its insistence that ships would not pass while the US blockade remained in effect.
Two liquefied petroleum gas tankers were seen on ship-tracking websites moving eastbound towards the strait early on Sunday morning, but the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that Iran\u2019s armed forces turned them back.
Friday\u2019s announcement that the strait would reopen caused the sharpest one-day drop in oil prices in years, while stock markets hit all-time highs on the expectation the disruption would soon end. But with the strait yet to reopen, markets could face new volatility when they reopen on Monday.
Pressure for a way out of the war is mounting on Trump as his fellow Republicans prepare to defend narrow majorities in Congress in the November midterm elections.
Apart from the two-week ceasefire in Iran, Israel and Lebanon announced a separate ceasefire last week.
More than 1 million Lebanese have been displaced by the Israeli invasion, which Israel said was in pursuit of Hezbollah, the powerful Shia armed group allied with Iran that fired across the border in support of Tehran.
Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n

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