Iran Says It Has Made No Decision on Returning to Talks With Washington

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has taken no decision on resuming negotiations with the United States, and that Oman is working on possible routes back to talks, Al Jazeera reported. He linked the movement of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to Washington meeting Iranian conditions, which keeps the waterway a bargaining instrument rather than a humanitarian question.

The two governments are also disputing the military facts. American officials say strikes destroyed Iran's ballistic missile capability. A former White House adviser interviewed by Al Jazeera rejected that assessment and said Iranian missile production and stockpiles remain substantially intact. Neither claim has been independently verified, and the gap between them shapes how each side judges its leverage.

President Trump said on Friday that he would never apologise for the war and that higher American fuel prices were worth the outcome. That position removes one of the constraints diplomacy usually supplies, because it tells Tehran the United States is prepared to absorb the economic cost of a prolonged closure.

Oman's role is the practical variable. It has hosted indirect exchanges before, and any reopening arrangement would most likely arrive through Muscat rather than through a public negotiation.