Iran-US war latest: Oil prices rise after Trump says he has offered Tehran ‘nothing’ in peace talks
Oil prices have risen after US president Donald Trump denied he would ease sanctions on Iran in exchange for steps to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Mr Trump denied Axios and CNN reports that cited US officials as saying America offered sanctions relief and to unfreeze Iranian funds. “This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING,” he wrote on Truth Social.
An Iranian official taunted Trump by claiming that the US will “inevitably leave this region”.
Ebrahim Azizi, who heads Iran’s parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, claimed that Iran would remain in the region and that Israel’s days “are numbered”.
Another official, a spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, urged American voters to punish Trump’s warmongering at the ballot box in November’s midterm election.
Trump did confirm on Monday that US officials had spoken with mediators in New York, as he insisted the US will win its war in Iran “very soon”.
