Iran live updates: US being 'humiliated' by Iran, German chancellor says

Ongoing diplomacy centered on Pakistan is yet to achieve a breakthrough.

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Last updated: Monday, April 27, 2026 5:55PM GMT
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President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan earlier this month failed to reach a peace deal.

Trump later announced the open-ended extension of the ceasefire and the continuation of the blockade until Iran's proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded "one way or the other."

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ByJoe Simonetti ABCNews logo
3 hours and 7 minutes ago

Araghchi to meet Putin on Monday, Peskov says

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, as part of the Iranian diplomat's visit to St. Petersburg.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stands waiting to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 23, 2025.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stands waiting to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 23, 2025.

"The significance of this conversation is hard to overestimate in terms of how the situation around Iran and in the Middle East is developing," Peskov said.

Putin will meet with Araghchi at St. Petersburg's Presidential Library, Peskov said.

ByVictoria Beaule ABCNews logo
3 hours and 11 minutes ago

CENTCOM says 38 ships turned back amid blockade

U.S. Central Command said in a post to X late on Sunday that American forces have so far directed 38 vessels to "turn around, or return to port" amid the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

U.S. forces, CENTCOM said, are "preventing ships from entering or exiting."

The USS Abraham Lincoln was captured on satellite imagery some 80 miles from the blockade line -- which separates the Gulf of Oman from the Arabian Sea -- on Sunday, by the European Union-operated Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite.