social media post,<\/a> U.S. President Donald Trump did not mention the exchange of hostilities, repeating his as yet unproven claim that\u00a0Iran\u00a0“really wants to make a deal.”<\/p>\nHe berated critics, including what he described as “seemingly unpatriotic Republicans,” for negative “chirping” about negotiations to end the conflict.<\/p>\n
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end \u2014 It always does!” he said.<\/p>\n
Despite Trump’s remarks, Iranian Foreign \u200cMinistry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei accused Washington on Monday of constantly shifting its negotiating stance and condemned what he called U.S. aggressive action.<\/p>\n
He said sending contradictory messages wouldn’t work as a negotiating tactic, and urged Washington to reach a clear and definitive position as soon as possible. <\/p>\n
“Negotiations have started amid severe suspicion and mistrust, and the exchange of messages is taking place in this atmosphere,” Baghaei said. <\/p>\n
“The other party is constantly changing its views and putting forward new \u200bor contradictory demands \u2026 it is natural that this situation will prolong negotiations,” he said, adding that Tehran viewed Israeli actions in the region, including in Lebanon, as inseparable from those of the U.S.<\/p>\n
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An assault speed boat is displayed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in a pro-government gathering in Tehran on Saturday. (Vahid Salemi\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Trump is under pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and get U.S. gasoline prices down ahead of the November congressional elections, as voters show increasing frustration over rising prices. At \u200bthe same time, he faces a potential backlash from\u00a0Iran\u00a0hawks in his own party over any concessions to Tehran.<\/p>\n
Trump has said his key aim in the war is to prevent\u00a0Iran\u00a0from developing a nuclear weapon with its highly enriched uranium. Tehran has consistently denied it has plans to do that.<\/p>\n
The two sides remain at odds on several other issues, such as Tehran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of\u00a0Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.<\/p>\n
LISTEN | Price at pumps can be decoupled from war, economist says:<\/p>\n
Day 610:11How we can bring down the high price of gasoline in Canada<\/p>\n
The price of gas across Canada remained high this week. Although prices at the pumps have dipped slightly here and there since the start of the war in Iran, these high prices are expected to continue for some time. The mantra from government, industry and financial analysts is that high prices are inevitable because of geopolitical instability. Canadian economist Jim Stanford disagrees. Earlier this month, he authored the report, A Sequel We Don\u2019t Want: What the 2026 Oil Price Shock Will Cost Canadians. Jim Stanford joins Day 6 host Brent Bambury to talk about how high gas prices in Canada have little to do with war, supply and demand, or market forces \u2014 and what can be done to bring those prices down.Israeli troops to move deeper into Lebanon<\/p>\n
Israel’s war in Lebanon with the\u00a0Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia is another major impediment.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu said Sunday\u00a0he had ordered troops to move farther into Lebanon in the battle against the\u00a0Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group.<\/p>\n
On Monday, he ordered the military to attack targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold. His office accused Hezbollah of repeated violations of a ceasefire agreed in late April.<\/p>\n
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with both Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Netanyahu on the diplomatic negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, and has\u00a0proposed a plan\u00a0to allow for “gradual de-escalation,” a U.S. official said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-677893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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