Push to resume peace talks intensifies as U.S. Iran ports blockade enters Day 2

Vice President JD Vance told Fox News successful an interrogation Monday that the U.S. made its reddish lines wide successful talks with Iran, and that it's present up to Tehran to instrumentality action. 

"I truly deliberation the shot is successful the Iranian court, due to the fact that we enactment a batch connected the table. We really made precise wide what our reddish lines were," Vance said. 

Vance said the U.S. is consenting to beryllium accommodating, but Iran cannot person the quality to enrich uranium and that the "nuclear dust" needs to beryllium removed from Iran, preferably by the U.S. Another reddish enactment is atomic weapons, the vice president said.

"It's 1 happening for the Iranians to accidental that they're not going to person a atomic weapon. It's different happening for america to enactment successful spot the mechanics to guarantee that's not going to happen," Vance said.

On the Strait of Hormuz, Vance said there's been an "uptick successful postulation coming done the strait," but that it hasn't been afloat reopened. The vice president added that if the Iranians don't marque advancement connected the captious waterway, it volition "change the negotiation." 

Vance besides said Iran "tried to determination the goalposts" connected the strait during the talks successful Pakistan. He said the U.S. present has the cards, militarily and economically, successful the Strait of Hormuz, and it's up to the Iranians to determine however they're going to determination forward.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition beryllium participating successful the Israel-Lebanon talks that are scheduled to beryllium held Tuesday successful Washington, D.C., CBS News has confirmed.

The Israeli and Lebanese governments are engaging successful direct, high-level diplomatic talks – the archetypal specified talks since 1993 – brokered by the U.S., a State Department authoritative said.

CBS News antecedently reported on this upcoming meeting, with 2 sources acquainted with the substance and 1 Lebanese authoritative saying they'll beryllium led by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa on with Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. The State Department authoritative told CBS News Monday that Issa, Leiter and Hamadeh would beryllium participants successful tomorrow's meeting.

Shortly aft Israel and the U.S. began the warfare with Iran, Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel successful a amusement of solidarity with Tehran. Israel past launched a caller violative against Hezbollah, and invaded overmuch of confederate Lebanon.

The White House and Israel's authorities say Lebanon was ne'er portion of the two-week ceasefire with Iran announced past week.

Hezbollah person Naim Qassem connected Monday urged Lebanon to cancel a planned gathering with Israel successful Washington, reiterating his group's rejection of nonstop negotiations with Israel.

"We telephone for a historical and heroic stance by canceling this negotiating meeting," Qassem, whose Iran-backed violent radical has been astatine warfare with Israel since March 2, said successful a televised address.

The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the United States are scheduled to conscionable connected Tuesday.

Washington's determination to blockade Iranian ports successful the Strait of Hormuz is sending tremors done planetary vigor markets, raising fears of a caller lipid daze by threatening supplies to Asia.

Iran had continued to pump crude to Asia since the commencement of the Middle East war, partially shielded by its elusive "dark fleet."

Roughly one-fifth of the world's lipid usually flows done the captious waterway. Iran has already tightened the screws successful caller weeks, sharply slowing maritime traffic.

Now, the blockade of Iran's ports ordered Sunday by President Trump threatens to onshore different stroke to planetary lipid and state supplies aft the warring damaged vigor facilities successful the Gulf states and blocked their exports done the strait, said Amir Handjani of the U.S.-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Just days aft launching the warfare against Iran on with Israel connected Feb. 28, the U.S. temporarily eased immoderate sanctions connected Tehran to forestall an abrupt vigor daze -- peculiarly for Asian economies.

Iranian crude had been helping to conscionable request truthful far, Handjani told AFP, but helium warned that the blockade present threatens that fragile balance.

"What is the U.S. Navy going to do? They're not going to face Chinese, Indian and Pakistani merchant ships" loading successful Iranian ports, helium said.

"That's an enactment of war."

China remains the world's largest importer of Iranian crude, and connected Tuesday Bejing called the U.S. blockade "dangerous and irresponsible." 

Oil prices, already climbing, volition proceed to surge, Handjani predicted.

Russia astir doubled its net from lipid exports successful March arsenic Moscow was granted sanctions alleviation successful a bid to offset soaring vigor prices during the warfare successful the Middle East, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

The state earned $19 cardinal past period arsenic crude and lipid merchandise exports roseate to 7.1 cardinal barrels per time (mb/d), an summation of 320 1000 barrels a time from February levels.

The United States eased immoderate restrictions connected income of Russian crude imposed implicit its warfare against Ukraine, allowing countries to acquisition lipid that was already astatine oversea until April 11.

President Trump told CBS News elder analogous Norah O'Donnell connected Monday that Pope Leo is "wrong connected the issues" aft previously lashing out at the pontiff precocious Sunday, calling him "WEAK connected Crime, and unspeakable for Foreign Policy" successful a lengthy Truth Social post.

In a telephone interview, Mr. Trump confirmed that helium had watched "60 Minutes," which highlighted Pope Leo's disapproval of wide deportations and the Iran war, earlier firing disconnected the post. When asked if helium plans to telephone the pope directly, Mr. Trump gave a steadfast "no."

"He's incorrect connected the issues," Mr. Trump said of Pope Leo. "I don't deliberation helium should beryllium getting into politics. I deliberation helium astir apt learned that from this." 

Mr. Trump besides said helium wasn't definite whether Pope Leo, the archetypal U.S.-born pontiff, would sojourn the U.S. during his presidency. "I person nary idea," helium said. "It's up to him, not up to me."

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