Iran says it is preparing a new attack on Israel and has suspended US talks

WASHINGTON, United States — Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Tehran has announced its intention to strike Israel and has suspended negotiations with Washington following Israel's recent attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Speaking after the Israeli strike, Baghaei said talks had been put on hold and that Iran would hit Israel, while noting that Israel lifted the blockade that same night even though the agreement had set a 30-day timeline for doing so. Baghaei also addressed a post by U.S. President Donald Trump linking the lifting of the blockade to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, calling the claim about the strait inaccurate. He said Iran would move to attack if the post was not corrected, and that Trump was forced to revise it, describing the exchange as a form of negotiation. In a separate post on X, the spokesman said U.S. foreign policy toward Iran and the wider region was detached from reality and built on extreme falsehoods. He quoted Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" to describe the state of U.S. policy. No further details on the timing of any Iranian operation were immediately available.