Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday that no talks between Tehran and Washington were scheduled in the coming days, adding that an Iranian technical delegation’s visit to Qatar this week was unrelated to US officials visiting the country.
US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will attend an expected meeting with Iran in Doha on Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran had requested a meeting and that it would take place in Doha on Tuesday.
Iranian deputy foreign minister said on Monday that no technical working-group meetings under the Iran-US MoU had been planned for this week. Reuters reported earlier that Iranian and US technical teams were set to meet in Doha in the coming days.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said $6 billion of Iran’s $12 billion in funds held in Qatar would be released and returned to the country, state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
Iran and Oman held the first meeting of their joint Hormuz committee in Muscat to discuss the future management of the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian deputy foreign minister said on Monday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X he met German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday to discuss the Middle East and reaffirm their shared commitment to ensuring Iran never obtains or develops a nuclear weapon.
Iranian civil rights activist Rezvaneh Ahmadkhanbeigi was sent back to Tehran's Evin Prison on Monday to continue serving her sentence, accompanied by her daughter, Mahfar Lalehzari, who is less than two years old, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported.
According to HRANA, Ahmadkhanbeigi had been granted temporary leave from Evin Prison last September to give birth. She and her husband, Behfar Lalehzari, were initially sentenced to a combined 10 years in prison on charges of assembly and collusion against national security and propaganda against the state, but their sentences were later reduced to 21 months following a retrial.
HRANA reported that the couple were arrested by security forces at their home in September 2023.
US President Donald Trump said the US-Iran meeting in Qatar this week would be “perhaps important, perhaps not,” speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
Iranian and Omani experts will begin talks in the coming days on redefining transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state TV on Monday, adding that Tehran will seek to obstruct vessels operating outside the designated shipping lanes.
Gharibabadi said Iran would “advance this work” if Oman was unwilling to cooperate on the mechanism, but added that Muscat had shown readiness to take part.
A confidential security annex signed by Lebanon and Israel calls for the Lebanese army to ensure the disarmament of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and all other non-state armed groups, Saudi outlet Asharq News reported.
According to the report, the annex was signed alongside a trilateral framework agreement after four days of negotiations and provides for an initial pilot zone in the South Litani sector.
The report said that the annex sets out a four-step model involving clearance, verification, Lebanese army control and state-led reconstruction.
The report added Israel and Lebanon would establish a Military Coordination Group for Lebanon to manage deconfliction, verification and implementation through indirect military-to-military channels.
According to Asharq, Israel would commit to a phased, conditions-based redeployment from Lebanese territory, pending the successful completion of an agreed and verifiable disarmament and dismantlement process.
A member of Iran’s negotiating delegation’s media team said no nuclear talks had taken place with the United States, even at a technical level, and that none would begin until Article 13 of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding was resolved.
Speaking to Iranian state TV on Monday, Saeed Ajorlou said Iran’s conditions must be fully met before any nuclear negotiations could begin.
Article 13 says that after the MoU is signed, and subject to the start and continuation of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10 and 11, the United States and Iran will begin negotiations on a final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.
Mohammad Akbarzadeh, the political deputy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, was killed after his car overturned in Iran's southeastern Kerman province, the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency reported.
Fars said police and emergency responders attended the scene after the crash and Akbarzadeh was taken to a medical centre, where he died from the severity of his injuries.
The report said said authorities had launched an investigation into the cause and circumstances of the crash.
Earlier this month, Akbarzadeh was among those sanctioned by the European Union over support for measures restricting freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Admiral Brad Cooper met senior civilian and military leaders in Israel and Lebanon during an ongoing trip to the Middle East.
In Lebanon, Cooper and his staff met President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Armed Forces Commanding General Rodolphe Haykal to discuss the path forward in implementing a framework agreement signed in Washington on Friday, CENTCOM said in a statement on X.
Cooper also visited deployed US troops in Israel, where he recognized service members for “outstanding mission contributions.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that no talks between Tehran and Washington were scheduled in the coming days, adding that an Iranian technical delegation’s visit to Qatar this week was unrelated to US officials visiting the country.
Baghaei said Tehran had not started negotiations on a final deal because certain points of the memorandum of understanding must first be implemented, which he said was Iran’s current priority.
Qatar’s deputy prime minister and minister of state for defense affairs spoke by phone with Iran’s acting defense minister to discuss regional security, the state-run Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported on Monday.
Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan Al-Thani and Seyed Majid Ebn Al Reza discussed the latest security developments in the region and coordination between the two sides in light of current circumstances, QNA said.
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