New York Times: Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that 21 hours of peace talks in Pakistan, between the United States and Iran had failed to produce an agreement to end the war, leaving the question of what happens after the current two-week cease-fire up in the air.
“They have chosen not to accept our terms,” Mr. Vance said in a brief news conference in Islamabad, though he left open the possibility that terms could still be reached. “We leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,” he added. “We’ll see if the Iranians accept it.”…
Vance: U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Collapsed Over Nuclear Issue
Iran would not commit to forgoing a nuclear weapon, Vance said, adding that US negotiators gave their “final and best offer,” but Tehran refused to accept the US’ terms for a deal.
No plans for further talks: Tehran currently has no plans for another round of negotiations, state media reported. In Iran, the failure of the talks is being blamed on “excessive” demands of the United States…
Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed
On his way to Florida, President Trump said it did not matter to him if a deal with Iran was reached or not: “We win, regardless,” he said…
Iran’s Nuclear Program Has Survived, Clouding Talks
Iran has emerged from five weeks of punishing U.S. and Israeli bombing with most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb intact, officials and experts say, giving its negotiators another lever for pressing Washington to make concessions…
Navy Enters Hormuz, Exits After Destroying Drone, U.S. Officials Say
A spokesman for Iran’s military, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, strongly denied that the American warships had approached and entered the strait, and he said Iran’s armed forces still controlled the waterway, according to Iran’s state broadcaster…
The U.S. Sank One of Iran’s Navies. The Other Still Controls Hormuz.
The regular navy operated Iran’s big battleships largely for prestige and occasional long-range deployments. The paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, on the other hand, has its own extensive fleet of more nimble boats designed to control the crucial waterway with missiles, mines and harassment of commercial ships—and they are much harder to reach…
Why Iran and Other Regimes Are So Hard to Break
Iran’s ability to resist despite large civilian casualties, the decapitation of much of the regime’s leadership and severe economic damage shows the staying power of authoritarian governments. For decades, Tehran developed a toolbox that includes widespread political repression, relentless propaganda, an ideology of martyrdom and a powerful security apparatus—all aimed at protecting the state from enemies abroad and within…
Commodity traders lost ‘billions’ in early days of Iran war
While trading houses typically profit in times of chaos and volatility, the start of the conflict six weeks ago — which trapped more than 100 fuel tankers in the Gulf — caught many on the wrong side of the sudden surge in oil prices…
U.S. Moves to Deport Son of Prominent Figure in Iranian Revolution
The Trump administration arrested and said it would deport the son of an Iranian woman who gained fame as a spokeswoman for the Iranian militants who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979…
‘Hello to the New World Superpower’: Iran’s Africa Missions Troll Trump
Iranian officials seem to have made the calculation to be aggressive on the social media accounts of embassies in places “where it would not attract negative repercussions from the host government and where they could possibly get support from the population,” said Na’eem Jeenah, the executive director of the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg. “South Africa is probably one of the better examples of that.”…
How Iran turned to memes to take on Trump
Since the US and Israel began their bombing campaign, Iranian embassies have saturated their feeds with extremely online snark. Government-aligned accounts post AI-generated Lego animations that link the Epstein files to Trump’s war. And Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, one of its top wartime leaders, trolls the US administration, whose president was once the world’s pre-eminent tweeter…
A War Half a World Away Reshapes What Australian Farmers Plant
The six-week conflict has sent shockwaves through the global economy by roiling trade through the Strait of Hormuz — a key maritime route for commodities including oil, fertilizer, aluminum and helium used in chip production. For major agricultural exporters like Australia, higher input costs are shaping what farmers plant, potentially impacting global supplies of crops such as wheat and pushing up food prices into 2027. Analysts say that even if a fragile two-week ceasefire leads to lasting peace, the market disruption will be prolonged…
As Iran’s civilian economy crumbles, its military economy grows stronger
Short of cash, the government pays for the IRGC in oil instead. The Guards processed roughly half of Iran’s oil exports in 2025, worth at least $30bn. A slick machine has been built to deliver shipments, mostly to China, and process payments while evading sanctions. Thousands of shell companies and money exchanges buried deep in banking systems in Russia and China make deals nearly impossible to trace. According to two people familiar with the matter, Iran’s central government has handed over more barrels than usual to the IRGC in the past month…