Ankara ready to support potential Iran deal, Turkish president says

Pakistan’s foreign minister praised US President Donald Trump’s commitment to dialogue and diplomacy, alongside senior US officials involved in the talks.

“We commend President Trump’s leadership and commitment to dialogue and diplomacy, alongside Vance, Rubio and the entire US team,” Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Sunday.

“Today’s important telephone call led by President Donald J. Trump marks a significant step closer toward regional peace,” Dar added.

Iran should charge transit fees on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Hossein Shariatmadari, the Supreme Leader’s representative at Kayhan newspaper wrote, saying Tehran’s control over the waterway gives it the legal right to do so.

“The Strait of Hormuz is part of Iran’s territorial waters and we retain the legal right to collect transit fees from ships and vessels passing through our territorial waters,” Shariatmadari wrote. “The United States also collects fees at maritime chokepoints.”

Shariatmadari criticized what he described as the approach of some Iranian diplomats and members of the negotiating team, saying they appeared ready to restore conditions in the strait to their prewar state after the conflict ends.

“It is as if our sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, which is the country’s definite and legal right, does not exist,” he added.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander threatened that any new attack on Iran would draw a response across the region and beyond, saying the country’s forces were at peak readiness.

“Any renewed attack by the enemy will be met with a destructive response extending across the region and beyond,” Ahmad Vahidi said in a message.

Vahidi wrote Iran’s armed forces were at their “highest level of readiness and active deterrence” across missile, air, naval, ground, space and cyber operations.

US President Donald Trump said a gunman was killed in an exchange of fire with Secret Service agents near the White House gates, arguing the incident underscored the need for stronger presidential security measures.

“Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump said the suspect had “a violent history and possible obsession” with the White House and was killed after exchanging gunfire with agents near the compound.

The president linked the episode to a shooting near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner a month earlier, saying the incidents showed the importance of building “the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, DC.”

“The National Security of our Country demands it!” Trump wrote.

The Islamic Republic executed a detainee arrested in March last year, according to Iranian state media.

Mizan news agency, affiliated with the judiciary, reported that Mojtaba Kian was executed on Sunday, after being convicted of “sending information related to defense industry units” to what authorities described as “enemy-affiliated networks” during the recent war.

Mizan said a case had been opened against Kian in the judiciary of Alborz province and that the death sentence was issued and carried out following judicial proceedings. The outlet did not publish further details about the legal process, Kian’s lawyer, or whether he had access to a full legal defense.

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