Iran has withdrawn from nuclear talks with the United States, which were scheduled to take place on Sunday in Oman.
The meeting was cancelled on Friday in response to Israeli attacks on high-rise buildings and nuclear facilities in and around Tehran.
President Donald Trump and his administration had been working for months to reach a deal with Iran, reportedly urging Israel to hold off strikes as the negotiations were ongoing. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike during a phone call on Monday.
Iranian news outlet Ahram reports that the talks have been suspended “until further notice.”
The Iranian government believes the United States was involved in the attack despite statements to the contrary made by the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The Zionist enemy carried out this attack with the help of the United States and targeted residential areas,” a spokesperson for the Iranian armed forces said in a statement. “Israel will pay a heavy price and should expect a strong response from us. That response will definitely come.”
Oman’s leadership has also condemned Israel’s attack.
“Israel’s unilateral attack on Iran is illegal, unjustifiable and a grave threat to regional stability,” Oman Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi wrote on X in response to the strikes. “I condemn it and urge the global community to come together to reject Israeli aggression and support de-escalation and diplomacy with one voice.”
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami and nuclear scientists Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi were among those killed in the attacks.
In a post to Truth Social on Friday, Trump urged Iran to come to a deal.
Trump wrote:
I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse! There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!
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