Iran says it has no plans to attend peace talks with U.S.

Oil prices climbed much than 5% portion satellite shares were mixed Monday arsenic a standoff betwixt Iran and the U.S. prevented tankers from utilizing the Strait of Hormuz. The Persian Gulf waterway was closed again aft Iran reversed a determination to reopen the strait and President Trump said a U.S. Navy blockade of Iranian ports would stay successful effect.

U.S. benchmark crude gained 5.3% to $87.88 a barrel, portion Brent crude, the planetary standard, was up 5.3% astatine $95.62 a tube connected Monday.

In stock trading, U.S. futures declined, with the contracts for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.7%.

In aboriginal European trading, benchmarks declined. Germany's DAX mislaid 1.6% and the CAC 40 successful Paris shed 1.2% to 8,325.67. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.6% to 10,601.64.

Despite renewed doubts astir however soon ships volition again transport the immense amounts lipid the satellite gets from the Middle East, stock prices were mostly higher successful Asia, though they gave up the bigger gains of earlier successful the session. 

Iran isn't presently readying to be talks with the United States, the authorities said, aft President Trump sent U.S. negotiators to Pakistan to instrumentality portion successful renewed talks connected Monday, conscionable days earlier a ceasefire betwixt Iran and the U.S. expires.

The ongoing U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has been a important sticking point, an contented further analyzable by an American destroyer connected Sunday firing connected and seizing an Iranian vessel that tried to evade it.

The Iranian-flagged cargo vessel M/V Touska is seen from aboard the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided rocket destroyer USS Spruance, arsenic it conducts an interception of the commercialized vas successful a determination fixed by the U.S. subject arsenic the northbound Arabian Sea, successful a screengrab from video released by the U.S. Central Command, April 19, 2026. CENTCOM/Handout

Tehran said it would retaliate, with the state-run Tasnim quality bureau reporting that Iran had sent drones successful the absorption of U.S. subject ships aft its vas was seized.

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said successful a play property briefing Monday that, "As of present ... we person nary plans for the adjacent circular of negotiation, and nary determination has been made successful this regard."

State broadcaster IRIB connected Sunday cited Iranian sources arsenic saying "there are presently nary plans to enactment successful the adjacent circular of Iran-U.S. talks."

The state-run IRNA quality bureau pointed to the blockade and Washington's "unreasonable and unrealistic demands," saying that "in these circumstances, determination is nary wide imaginable of fruitful negotiations."

"We're offering a precise just and tenable DEAL, and I anticipation they instrumentality it," Mr. Trump warned successful a societal media station connected Sunday, portion renewing his menace to bid strikes to destruct each of Iran's powerfulness plants and bridges if a woody isn't reached.

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Hezbollah said it detonated explosives Sunday day successful an onslaught against Israeli forces successful confederate Lebanon.

The radical said successful a connection Monday that bombs planted by Hezbollah fighters exploded and destroyed 4 tanks successful a convoy of 8 tanks that was passing the colony of Deir Siryan.

It was the archetypal assertion of an onslaught by Hezbollah since a 10-day ceasefire went into effect astatine midnight Thursday.

The Israeli subject did not instantly comment. 

The Israeli service said Monday that it had determined an representation circulating connected societal media that shows a worker successful southbound Lebanon hitting a statue of Jesus Christ is authentic and shows an progressive work member.

The representation appears to amusement an Israeli worker utilizing a sledgehammer to onslaught the caput of a statue of a crucified Jesus that had fallen disconnected a cross.

Arab media reports indicated the statue was successful the Christian colony of Debl successful southbound Lebanon, adjacent the borderline with Israel successful an country that Israeli forces person occupied for weeks, forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

The Debl municipality told AFP the statue was located successful the village, but couldn't corroborate whether it had been damaged.

The Israel service said it viewed the incidental with "great severity," adding that the "soldier's behaviour is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops," in a station connected its authoritative X relationship Monday.

"Following the completion of an archetypal introspection regarding a photograph published earlier contiguous of an IDF worker harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF worker operating successful confederate Lebanon," it said successful the post.

The incidental is being investigated by the Israeli Northern Command and is presently being "addressed done the concatenation of command," the subject added.

It said "appropriate measures volition beryllium taken against those involved" but didn't spell into further detail.

The Israel service said it's moving with the assemblage to "restore the statue to its place."

The IDF said it is "operating to dismantle the violent infrastructure established by Hezbollah successful confederate Lebanon, and has nary volition of harming civilian infrastructure, including spiritual buildings oregon spiritual symbols."

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The Iranian subject office said the onslaught and consequent boarding of an Iranian vas by U.S. forces was a usurpation of the ceasefire and an enactment of "maritime piracy," saying that "Iran volition respond soon," according to Iran's state-run broadcaster.

The United States says it fired connected the vessel and seized it due to the fact that it had crossed the blockade enactment aft ignoring aggregate warnings.

The effect came arsenic Iran has yet to remark connected President Trump's announcement of caller talks successful Pakistan this week. Iranian authorities media, without citing anyone beyond unnamed sources, issued little reports connected Sunday suggesting the talks would not happen.

An Iranian cargo vessel that attempted to bypass the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and vessels is successful U.S. custody, President Trump said Sunday on Truth Social. Mr. Trump said the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Iranian-flagged vessel Touska successful the Gulf of Oman and gave the 900-foot-long vas "fair warning" to stop.

"The Iranian unit refused to listen, truthful our Navy vessel stopped them successful their tracks by blowing a spread successful the motor room," the president said. "The TOUSKA is nether U.S. Treasury sanctions due to the fact that of its anterior past of amerciable activity. We person afloat custody of the vessel and are seeing what's connected board."

Mr. Trump renewed his informing earlier Sunday that helium would bid the U.S. subject to people civilian infrastructure successful Iran, including bridges and powerfulness plants, if the authorities does not hold to a bid deal. 

"We're offering a precise just and tenable DEAL, and I anticipation they instrumentality it because, if they don't, the United States is going to sound retired each azygous Power Plant, and each azygous Bridge, successful Iran," Mr. Trump wrote connected TruthSocial. 

"NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" Mr. Trump said. "If they don't instrumentality the DEAL, it volition beryllium my Honor to bash what has to beryllium done, which should person been done to Iran, by different Presidents, for the past 47 years. IT'S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!"