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US and Iran pause strikes but disagree over next steps on talks 8%
By JON GAMBRELL53% JOSH BOAK51%
6/29/2026, 8:21:11 AM
Keywords: Iran War, Donald Trump, Masoud Pezeshkian, Emmanuel Macron, Qatar, Strait Of Hormuz, War And Unrest, Iran Government, Business, Diplomacy, Steve Witkoff, Hezbollah, Brad Cooper, Iran, Military And Defense, Oman Government, United States Government, Joseph Aoun, Politics, Karoline Leavitt, Badr Albusaidi, Jared Kushner, Esmail Baghaei
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States and Iran on Monday separately announced they will send delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insisted it has not agreed to meet with the U.S. “at any level” after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war.
U.S.
President Donald Trump said the Islamic Republic had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts and that they planned to convene Tuesday in Doha, Qatar.
But one of Iran’s senior negotiators denied talks had been scheduled.
And the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Tehran was sending its delegation to Qatar, a key mediator in the negotiations, to discuss terms of the interim deal without involving the U.S.
The U.S. president has tried to preserve a fragile interim deal, but hostilities mounted in recent days in the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil had been shipped before war began.
After four days of trading strikes, both sides appeared to pause their attacks Monday.
The U.S. and Iran agreed to an interim deal earlier this month that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of enriched uranium.
It also waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country, opens the Strait of Hormuz and gives each side 60 days to hammer out broader agreements.
Confusion mounts over next round of Iran-US talks
After Trump said Monday morning on social media that the U.S. and Iran planned to meet, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, were flying to Qatar.
Pakistan, also a key mediator, had said talks between Iran and the U.S. would resume Tuesday.
But Kazem Gharibabadi, an Iranian deputy foreign minister, said in comments published by Iranian state media that no talks had been confirmed.
And Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said that its delegation was traveling to Qatar this week to discuss the planned release of frozen Iranian assets and other issues related to the deal.
“There are no negotiation meetings with the U.S. side at any level scheduled in the coming days,” Baghaei said.
“The fact that U.S. representatives are traveling to Qatar has no connection with the visit of the Iranian delegation.”
Oman, Iran discuss possible fees for ships transiting the strait
Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, said Monday that Oman and Iran are considering charging service-related fees for commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Albusaidi said services could include water safety measures, pollution prevention, navigational assistance and preparedness for incidents such as fires.
He told Radio Monte Carlo while visiting France that there are “successful examples” of similar services being provided in compliance with maritime law.
Albusaidi said Oman does not support imposing transit fees on ships.
“This is internationally forbidden,” he said, “and we are abiding by these rules.”
Iran and France clash over clearing mines from strait
An Iranian official warned France against “provocations” Monday after French President Emmanuel Macron posted on X that France and others were coordinating efforts to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
Kazem Gharibabadi, an Iranian deputy foreign minister, said on X that under the interim deal “demining is carried out solely by Iran and by no other country.”
Macron’s post came after he greeted Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman ahead of high-level diplomatic talks in Paris.
Oman and France called for “free, unconditional, and unrestricted navigation” in the Strait of Hormuz, in a joint statement issued Monday after the Paris meeting.
Both parties said they “agreed to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to support freedom of navigation going forward and conduct joint demining operations.”
Lebanon’s president says it will deploy troops as part of deal with Israel
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Lebanon is determined to deploy troops along its entire southern border as part of a framework agreement with Israel signed Friday.
He made the remark while meeting with Adm.
Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East.
The deal was rejected by the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, which triggered the latest war with Israel on March 2 when it fired rockets across Lebanon’s southern border and into northern Israel.
The Israel-Lebanon deal calls for Hezbollah to be disarmed before Israel will withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon.
Israel agreed to withdraw initially from a couple of “pilot zones” where the Lebanese army would then deploy, but no details have been shared about how that will work in practice.
Hezbollah officials have warned that attempts to implement the plan could lead to civil war.
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Boak reported from Washington.
Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran; Bassem Mroue and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, contributed to this report.
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