Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters warned on Monday it would “soon respond” to what it described as “armed maritime piracy” after the U.S. Navy fired on an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday, according to local media.
“The aggressor United States violated the ceasefire and committed maritime piracy by firing at an Iranian merchant ship in the waters of the Sea of Oman and landing a number of its terrorist marines on the deck of the vessel, disabling its navigation system,” Press TV quoted spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari as saying.
Meanwhile, Tehran rejected U.S. officials’ announcements, as well as media reports about a second round of negotiations in Islamabad on Tuesday, as “imprecise”, according to the state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency.
“The news published by the U.S. is their media game and is part of the "blame game" to pressure Iran,” the agency said.
On the eve of the reportedly scheduled talks, President Masoud Pezeshkian held a phone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday, exchanging views on the latest regional developments, the Islamabad negotiations, and ceasefire-related issues.
“The U.S. is after repeating the past patterns and betraying the diplomacy,” the President’s Office quoted him as saying, referring to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last June and February this year, during ongoing negotiations.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also held a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Muhammad Ishaq Dar to discuss regional developments and the fragile ceasefire, the ministry said in a press release.
He expressed appreciation for Pakistan’s “good offices” and mediation efforts, and cited the “bitter experience” of the past year marked by “repeated breaches of trust.”
Over the weekend, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in an interview with state broadcaster IRIB that Tehran’s 10-point plan for talks with the U.S. represented non-negotiable principles for both the Iranian Armed Forces and diplomats.
He led Iranian negotiators in inconclusive talks with the U.S. in Islamabad on 11 April.
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