00:01Iran has said that it will not be sending a delegation to participate in the second round of high-stakes
00:05peace talks with the United States,
00:07which was set to take place in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday.
00:12It comes after the U.S. military announced on Sunday that it had seized an Iranian-flagged commercial vessel,
00:18attempting to evade the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports.
00:23The seizure was the first by the U.S. Navy since the blockade was instated last week,
00:28and comes in response to Iran's closing of the Strategic Strait of Hormuz,
00:32which has sent global energy prices soaring.
00:35Iran vowed a swift response to the U.S. development,
00:39which it called a violation of the ceasefire and an act of piracy.
00:44Earlier, Tehran's chief negotiator, Parliamentary Speaker Mohamed Bagher Khalibaf,
00:49detailed that several staking points persist with the U.S.,
00:53which would prevent a deal from being struck.
00:55The U.S. military now has an image of the U.S. informed.
01:06We have a look at some of the things that we have in front of us, and we are in
01:14front of us.
01:16But in fact, the thing that we have in front of us is that we have the same thing that
01:26we have.
01:39It's not yet clear if the talks will continue ahead as planned without Iranian participation
01:44or whether the U.S. too would withdraw.
01:47U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to blow up the entirety of Iran
01:51if it fails to reach a deal with Washington before the expiration of the current fragile truce
01:56set to end on the 22nd of April.
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