Iran’s president has reportedly penned a resignation letter to his supreme leader a day after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that they had agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons amid intensifying peace talks.
The missive from Masoud Pezeshkian to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s office, according to a report from Iran International via Fox News, said that his government had been excluded from key decisions and that he was unable to govern effectively.
“The report also said the ensuing vacuum had allowed hardline factions within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to take control of key affairs,” Fox News reported.
It was unclear if Khamenei had accepted Pezeshkian’s resignation.
The report came after Trump told Fox News in an interview on Saturday night that there was “one guarantee I have to have — no nuclear weapons. They’ve agreed to that.”
The president said guaranteeing a nuclear-free commitment from Iran was a “non-negotiable condition” of his for any broader agreement. He described Iran’s acceptance as a breakthrough, while no formal agreement had been publicly confirmed.
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Kazakhstan is reportedly willing to “safely” store Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium if a deal is reach with the U.S.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, made the comments to the Financial Times and said that Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had expressed a willingness to do during talks in the capital of Astana.
He said the International Atomic Agency has a “bank” to store low-grade enriched uranium in the Asian nation and that Kazakhstan could do so “safely” as Trump seeks to nullify Iran’s nuclear stockpile.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament speaker, said that the country’s leaders “do not trust the enemy’s words and promises” as Tehran and Washington engage in ongoing peace talks, as reported by the official Islamic Republic News Agency, per ABC News.
Ghalibaf said that leaders in Tehran “will not approve any agreement until we are sure that we have secured the rights of the Iranian people,” IRNA reported.
The death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks has risen to 3,412 people with another 10,269 injured, said Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
In a statement, the health ministry also said 127 health-care workers are among those killed since March 2, per ABC News.
Four American service members, along with three contractors, suffered minor injuries after an Iranian ballistic missile hit a Kuwaiti air base last week, CBS News reported.
A U.S. official told the news outlet all seven people returned to duty 24 hours later.
Iran launched a missile toward Kuwait last Wednesday night and was intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. Kuwait responded with drone and missile attacks the following day.
The Revolutionary Guard of Iran said it had targeted an American base in retaliation for U.S. strikes in the southern part of the country.
After the occupation of Beaufort Castle in Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had reportedly ordered the military to ramp up its ground operations there.
The instruction came after securing the castle, which the Israeli army states will become part of a new security zone as they try to diminish drone attacks coming from Hezbollah, per Al Jazeera.
Mediators continued to chat about the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran on Sunday morning.
Trump made edits to the memorandum on Sunday with the modified proposal sent back to Iran for approval.
It’s not known whether Tehran has responded to the revised memorandum, CBS News reported.
It’s the third round of revisions Trump has made on the proposal, which has been traded back and forth to Iran via mediators from Pakistan.
Israeli military personnel have captured a strategic mountain that is topped with a crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon, it said on Sunday.
Beaufort Castle, located near the city of Nabatiyeh, came after days of intense fighting and airstrikes in nearby villages where Israeli military and Hezbollah members fought, per CBS News.
“Twenty-six years after the withdrawal from the security zone in Lebanon, the Israeli flag has returned to fly on the peaks that overlook the Galilee towns,” Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday, noting Israel intends to control the castle as troops work to destroy thousands of homes he said were used by Hezbollah and other military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
In an interview with Fox News on Saturday, President Trump said Iran had agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons as talks between Washington and Tehran intensified.
“The one guarantee I have to have — no nuclear weapons. They’ve agreed to that,” he said.
Trump said guaranteeing a nuclear-free commitment from Iran was a “non-negotiable condition” of his for any broader agreement. He described Iran’s acceptance as a breakthrough, while no formal agreement has been publicly confirmed, per The Sunday Guardian.
This came after Trump had reportedly requested several amendments to the peace deal with Iran during a Friday meeting in the Situation Room in Washington, Axios reported. The president reportedly wanted a deal to be finalized soon, but is keen on strengthening clauses on Iran’s nuclear program.
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