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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that no agreement with US would be approved unless Tehran was certain it had secured its rights.
Iran’s authorities have ordered the seizure of assets belonging to 75 people on accusations of working with “hostile media,” judiciary-affiliated Mizan News reported on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said Iran had agreed to refrain from developing a nuclear weapon or acquiring one by other means.
US and Iranian accounts about a possible agreement diverged sharply, with IRGC-linked outlets saying no final text exists and rejecting Trump’s claims on Hormuz, uranium and frozen funds.
Two people were arrested in Iran’s northwestern city of Urmia on accusations of aiding Israel, IRGC-linked media reported on Sunday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy said on Sunday that 28 vessels, including oil tankers, container ships and other commercial vessels, crossed the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours after receiving permits.
Police in Iran sealed a cafe over accusations that it promoted what authorities called “satanic activities,” state media reported on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump left a roughly two-hour Situation Room meeting without deciding on an Iran deal, NYT reported, though US officials still believe an agreement may be close.
Negotiations with the United States to end the war are underway but will yield no result, Esmail Kowsari, a member of the Iranian parliament's national security committee, said.
"We have not reached a final agreement and we know they will not achieve any result," Kowsari said.
He said the nuclear issue had been removed from the negotiating table with the United States.
Kowsari added that Iran was negotiating on preventing a repeat of the war, payment of compensation, the withdrawal of US forces from the region and the lifting of the naval blockade.
"Many countries have accepted Iran's control over the Strait," Kowsari added.
Mediators are continuing to discuss a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, CBS News reported on Sunday, citing a source with knowledge.
President Donald Trump made edits to the proposal on Friday, the report said.
The edited proposal was sent back to Tehran for approval, but Iran has not yet shared a response, the report said.
The report said it was the third round of edits Trump had made to the US proposal, which has been passed back and forth to Tehran through mediators led by Pakistan.
The source said the US changes were somewhat significant, though details were not immediately available. No immediate deadline has been set, the report added.
An Iranian missile struck a base linked to the Kurdistan Freedom Party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Sunday, Kurdistan-based website Rudaw reported, citing a party official.
PAK Spokesperson Khalil Kani Sanani said the group’s headquarters near Darashakran, northwest of Erbil, was hit at 5:54 a.m. local time.
Iran’s roads and urban development minister said on Sunday that the country’s southern ports were on the front line of the war.
Speaking at a virtual parliament session, Farzaneh Sadegh also said Iran’s adversaries had sought to disrupt the transfer of goods into Iran.
“For the supply of basic and essential goods, planning was carried out so that the import and export process would not stop. Consultations have also been held with neighboring countries to increase the transport fleet,” the minister added.
Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed recent regional developments and diplomatic efforts to support security and stability in a phone call, Oman’s state news agency said on Sunday.
They also discussed measures to ensure freedom of maritime navigation and the flow of international trade.
The two leaders also reviewed cooperation and partnership between Oman and France, the agency said.
The European Union is considering a temporary freeze on its price cap for Russian oil as the Iran war continues into a fourth month, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Iran restored production at three offshore platforms in the South Pars gas field after war-related disruptions to onshore processing capacity, said the head of Pars Oil and Gas Company.
Touraj Dehghani said the platforms themselves were not damaged.
He said output from the three platforms was being routed to other processing plants in the region while repairs continue at damaged facilities, including the Phase 14 refinery.
An explosion was heard near Iran’s Qeshm Island on Sunday, semi-official Mehr News reported on Sunday.
Iranian state TV said later that sounds heard in Qeshm and Bandar Abbas were caused by the disposal of munitions left over from the war.

Municipal workers and Social Security retirees held protests in Shush, in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, on Sunday over unpaid wages and worsening living conditions.
Municipal workers said they were owed two months of wages and several months of insurance contributions, while retirees protested poverty, inflation, low pensions and lack of medical and welfare services.
The protests took place amid intense heat in Khuzestan.
An Iranian political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in the northern city of Rasht has been sentenced to death again after the Supreme Court overturned her previous death sentence, US-based rights group HRANA said on Sunday.
Zahra Shahbaz Tabari was convicted by a Revolutionary Court on accusations of armed rebellion against the state, through alleged membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), HRANA said.
Tabari had previously been sentenced to death in 2025, but the Supreme Court later overturned the ruling and sent the case to another branch for retrial.

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