Iran’s Larijani denies claims Tehran pushed to resume US talks | the news

The comments came after US media reported a diplomatic pushback following the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader.

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has denied media reports in the United States that he has made a fresh bid to resume nuclear talks with Washington, as Israel and the US continue to attack Tehran.

“We will not negotiate with the United States,” he wrote in a post on Monday X.

The statement came after the Wall Street Journal claimed that Larijani pushed through Omani intermediaries after a joint attack by the US and Israel killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday.

In a separate post on X, Larijani said Trump has plunged the Middle East into chaos with his “delusional ideas and now fears more American casualties.”

“They turned their self-made ‘America First’ slogan into ‘Israel First’ and sacrificed American soldiers for Israel’s power-hungry ambitions,” Larijani said.

American soldiers and their families will bear the cost, while Iran will continue to defend itself, he said.

At least three service members were killed in an operation against Iran on Sunday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed in a statement, and five were “seriously wounded”.

The US and Israel continued their attacks across Iran on Monday, the third day of a campaign that US President Donald Trump says is aimed at removing the Iranian government from power.

Iran has responded to attacks targeting US assets across the Middle East, raising fears of a wider regional war.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, describing Khamenei’s assassination as a “cowardly terrorist act” and describing the attack as a “very dangerous and unprecedented escalation”.