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Iran has "kept its word" with the United States after signing a protocol for a ceasefire agreement that the US president said was over, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday.
"So far, Iran has kept its word," Araghchi said in a post on the social media platform X, accusing Washington of "violating" the ceasefire by reinstating economic sanctions on Iran.
"This violation adds to other violations and wrong steps that the US has taken. Let's face it: there can be no respect if it is not mutual," the Iranian foreign minister added.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said the US and Iran have agreed to continue talks despite an escalation in hostilities this week, but he declared that the ceasefire reached between the two sides last month was over.
The United States also stepped up demands on Friday that Iran stop attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, where recent hostilities have driven up oil prices, a politically sensitive issue for Trump ahead of congressional elections in November.
Trump's comments came on a day of relative calm at the end of a week of renewed conflict, when three Qatari and Saudi commercial tankers were attacked, prompting the US to strike Iranian bases and Iran to respond with attacks on US military bases in Gulf states.
No attacks were reported Friday as regional mediators sought to salvage diplomatic efforts to permanently end a war that began on February 28 with US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue 'talks.' We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Ceasefire is over!" Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
State television reported that Iran rejected Trump's interpretation, saying it had not sought talks with the United States but had agreed to wait for a mediator from Qatar. Qatari negotiators met with officials in Iran on Friday to ease tensions and discuss the Strait of Hormuz, a person with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
Trump also tweeted that he had ordered the US military to be prepared to launch strikes against Iran if Tehran carried out or attempted an assassination of the president.
"1,000 missiles are loaded and locked and pointed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands more to follow immediately, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, expressed in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate or attempt to assassinate the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!" he posted.
The Wall Street Journal and other US media reported this week that Israel had shared information with Washington that Iran had recently drawn up a plan to assassinate Trump.
At the funeral of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday, a large crowd of mourners filled the courtyard, some of whom held banners reading "We will kill Trump."
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