Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's remarks suggesting that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had asked for a ceasefire.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei rejected Trump's remarks as "false and baseless" and insisted there were no ongoing negotiations to end the war. He said that Iran launched fresh missile attacks on Israel and US-allied Gulf nations on Wednesday. AFP journalists reported massive explosions in the Iranian capital.
Trump's tone has see-sawed between combative and conciliatory since the war began. Late on Tuesday, he said that the month-long conflict could be over in "two weeks, maybe three."
Pezeshkian had said Iran had the "necessary will" for a ceasefire, but only if its foes guaranteed that hostilities would not return.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that the Hormuz, a narrow strait through which one-fifth of the world's oil normally passes, would remain closed to the country's "enemies".
The Guards also confirmed they hit an oil tanker in the Gulf they said belonged to Israel. A British maritime security agency said the vessel was struck off Qatar, reporting damage but no casualties.