Iran Denies Trump's Talks Claim, Blames US War on Region

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Iran Denies Trump's Talks Claim: US War Is Against the Whole Region

The Pakistan Times — Islamabad, August 3, 2026

Iran is flatly denying that any negotiations with the United States are happening right now, even though Trump had confidently announced just days earlier that a new round of talks would kick off Monday afternoon. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran that there are currently no negotiations with America at all, and that Iran has no plans to send delegates abroad or host any American mediators in the coming days.

According to Baghaei, the only real diplomatic conversation Iran is having right now is with Oman, and that's specifically about setting up a temporary safe route for ships through the Strait of Hormuz, nothing broader than that. He made a point of separating that from any wider peace deal, saying an understanding with Oman on shipping wouldn't automatically mean the strait goes back to how it was before the war.

Baghaei didn't hold back on the bigger picture either. He said the American aggression Iran is facing isn't just aimed at Iran, it's effectively a war against the entire region, and that as long as the US naval blockade around Iran continues and what he called American violations keep happening, nothing is going to meaningfully change around Hormuz.

This isn't even the first time this exact pattern has played out. Trump has claimed productive or serious conversations with Iran multiple times over recent months, and Tehran has pushed back almost every time, including a similar denial back in March when Trump said the strait could reopen very soon. Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf even accused Washington of using fake talk of negotiations to manipulate oil markets and distract from what he called the US and Israel being stuck in a quagmire.

Trump, for his part, didn't take the denial quietly. He called the Iranian leadership unbelievably duplicitous on Truth Social, saying Iranian officials had themselves asked for talks to end the war only to turn around and deny any discussions were happening.

With around a fifth of the world's oil normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz, this back and forth isn't just diplomatic noise, it directly feeds into how nervous global energy markets get every single time Trump and Tehran contradict each other in public like this.

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