Iran has rejected a U.S. peace framework and has floated its own proposal through state media.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A top Iran ian official warned the U.S. against a ground invasion, saying its troops would be set “on fire,” as regional diplomats met Sunday in Pakistan in hopes of opening direct U.
S.-Iran talks and ending the Elsewhere, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel will widen its invasion of Lebanon. Netanyahu said Israel would expand what he called the “existing security strip” in southern Lebanon as Israeli forces Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Iranian forces were “waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever,” according to Iranian state media. He also dismissed the talks as a cover after some“We don’t know at what moment our homes could be targeted,” said Razzak Saghir al-Mousawi, 71, describing relentless airstrikes as Iranians crossing into Iraq urged the United States to end the war. “I am definitely afraid.”that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that triggered Iranian attacks on Israel and neighboring Gulf Arab states. Speaking on a visit to northern Israel, Netanyahu said Israel was “determined to fundamentally change the situation in the north.” He said Hezbollah ”still has residual capability to fire rockets at us.”. In Lebanon, officials say more than 1,100 people have been killed in the fighting since the Iran war began. The war continues onsaid the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt met in Islamabad without U.S. or Israeli participation, days after the U.S. offered Iran a 15-point “action list” as a framework for a possible peace deal. The ministers are expected to meet again Monday. Egypt’s Badr Abdelatty said the meetings are aimed at opening a “direct dialogue” between the U.S. and Iran, which have largely communicated through mediators. Both this war and Iranian officials have rejected the U.S. framework and publicly dismissed the idea of negotiating under pressure. But Press TV, the English-language arm of Iran’s state broadcaster, reported last week that Tehran had drafted its own five-point proposal that reportedly called for a halt to killing Iranian officials, guarantees against future attacks, reparations and Iran’s “exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.”in the strait, agreeing late Saturday to allow 20 more Pakistani-flagged vessels to pass through. It “sends a clear signal that Iran remains open for business with the world, provided the United States abandons coercion,” said Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to Iran. An adviser to the United Arab Emirates, Anwar Gargash, called for any settlement to the war to include “clear guarantees” that Iranian attacks on neighbors will not be repeated. Gargash said Iran’s government has become “the main threat” to Persian Gulf security and called for compensation for attacks on civilian infrastructure.Iran on Sunday warned of escalation after Israeli airstrikes hit several universities, including ones that Israel claimed were used for nuclear research and development.warned that Iran would consider Israeli universities and branches of U.S. universities in the region “legitimate targets” unless offered safety assurances for Iranian universities, state media reported. U.S. colleges have campuses in Qatar and the UAE, including Georgetown, New York and Northwestern universities. “If the U.S. government wants its universities in the region spared, it should condemn the bombardment” of Iranian universities by midday Monday, the Guard said in a statement. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said Saturday that dozens of universities and research centers have been hit, among them the Iran University of Science and Technology and Isfahan University of Technology. Both sides in the war have threatened to attack civilian facilities, which critics have warned could be a war crime.Iranian authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed in the Islamic Republic, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel. In Iraq, where Iranian-supported militia groups have entered the conflict, 80 members of the security forces have died.Metz reported from Ramallah and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writer Samya Kullab in Basra, Iraq, contributed to this report.Quadruple-amputee cornhole player accused of shooting man to death during argumentParents following school bus on field trip capture deadly collision on dashcam video
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