White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said the U.S. “will not negotiate \u200bthrough the press” and has “been clear about our red lines” as the Trump administration looks to end the war against \u2060Iran it began in February alongside Israel.
A previous agreement in 2015 between Iran and multiple other countries including the U.S. sharply curtailed Iran’s nuclear program, \u200bwhich it has long maintained is for peaceful, civilian purposes. But that deal fell apart when Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in his first term in \u200boffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hopes of reviving peace efforts have receded since the U.S. president scrapped a visit planned for last weekend by his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, where Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi shuttled in and out twice during the weekend.
Araqchi also visited Oman and on Monday went to Russia, where he met President Vladimir Putin \u200band received words of support from a longstanding ally.
OIL PRICES RISE AGAIN
With the warring sides still seemingly far apart, oil prices resumed their upward march, extending gains \u200bin early Asia trade on Tuesday.
“For oil traders, it’s not the rhetoric that matters any more, but the actual physical flow of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz, \u200cand right \u2060now, that flow remains constrained,” Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at City Index and FOREX.com, said in a note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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