Trump affirms new round of talks in Pakistan while Iran rejects

Iran’s official news agency IRNA said on Sunday the country has rejected taking part in the second round of the peace talks with the United States, after U.S. President Donald Trump said new negotiations would take place in Pakistan on Monday evening.

Trump also said that the U.S. has offered a “fair and reasonable” deal, and if Iran reject the deal, the U.S. will “knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.”

Iran’s absence from the second round of talks “stems from what it called Washington’s excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, and the ongoing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire,” IRNA said in a post on its English account on social media platform X.