Trump calls off envoy trip to Iran
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The situation remains fluid.
President Donald Trump said he cancelled his envoys' visit due to too much travel and expense for what he considered an inadequate Iranian offer.
Trump said it’s not worth the U.S. delegation making the 18-hour flight to Pakistan when the U.S. holds all the cards in the conflict with Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reportedly already left Islamabad, Pakistan, following talks with the country's prime minister.
A United States naval blockade on Iran is strangling the Islamic Republic’s main economic corridors – leaving Tehran facing a looming oil storage crisis and its citizens grappling with rising food prices and surging unemployment.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has reiterated that his country won’t negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports, according to Iranian semiofficial media.
The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran reportedly lays mines in the critical waterway, testing the Navy's shift to unmanned systems.
April 26 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi held talks in Oman on Sunday and discussed security in the Strait of Hormuz and broader Gulf waters and diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-U.