Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has returned to Islamabad, Pakistan, after a brief stint in Oman, where he met with its sultan to discuss efforts to bring an end to the US-Israeli war on his country, reports Al Jazeera.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that Tehran will not enter into negotiations with the US under pressure, threats or siege.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's return to Pakistan has "nothing to do with nuclear talks", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reports.
Tasnim said he's now back to "continue his recent consultations", but "negotiations have nothing to do with the nuclear issue".
Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard, says "cohesion across the Resistance Front" is stronger than ever before.
"Today the focus is on supporting Hezbollah and the other components of the Resistance Front," said Qaani in a statement reported by Tasnim news agency.
"History bears witness that the Zionist regime has not ended any war in recent decades by achieving its objectives. The defeat in southern Lebanon is a continuation of this same historical fate," he added.
Quds Force is an elite special unit responsible for extraterritorial military operations.
The US president says Iran can reach out to the United States if it wants to negotiate an end to the war between the two countries.
"If they want to talk, they can come to us or they can call us. You know there is a telephone. We have nice, secure lines," Trump said in an inteview on Fox News' The Sunday Briefing.
Trump said he believes the Iran war will come to an end "very soon" and the US will be the winner.
"Some of people we are dealing with now on Iran are very reasonable, others are not. I hope Iran will be smart," said the US president.
Iran's foreign minister has been engaged in a flurry of diplomatic calls.
As well as conversations with regional actors, Araghchi also spoke to Jean-Noel Barrot, the foreign minister of France, about "developments related to the ceasefire", emphasising "the importance" of European countries' "constructive role" in the process, according to the Telegram account of the Foreign Ministry.
European countries are feeling the pinch from the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments transit.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has discussed efforts to relaunch negotiations between the US and Iran with his Qatari and Iranian counterparts, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
In separate calls with the ministers, Abdelatty affirmed the importance of the diplomatic path to ensure the continuation of the ceasefire in a way that leads to an end to the war.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, have exchanged views on the latest regional and diplomatic developments in a telephone call, according to the former's Telegram channel.
"In this conversation, the foreign minister of our country explained various aspects of the current situation in the region, especially developments related to the ceasefire, and informed his Saudi counterpart about the latest efforts and diplomatic moves of the Islamic Republic of Iran to end the war and reduce tensions," said a statement on the channel.
