Trump expects more US-Iran talks after rejecting truce
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Commercial vessels are seen anchored offshore as small boats carrying members of Iran's paramilitary Basij Force take part in a military exercise along the Iranian coast overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, September 27, 2026. /VCG
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he expects the United States and Iran to hold more talks this week, a day after confirming that he had rejected Iran's latest truce proposal.
"I expect more talks with Iran (this week)," Trump said in a phone interview with US online news outlet Axios.
Citing two regional sources, Axios reported that another round of indirect dialogue between the United States and Iran could take place as early as Monday, although it remained unclear whether the two sides could bridge their differences.
Asked whether he was considering resuming strikes against Iran, Trump said: "I am always thinking about it."
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held a new round of indirect negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last Tuesday.
According to Axios, Iran proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear talks within a week, on the condition that the United States lifts its naval blockade, removes sanctions on Iranian oil sales and restore a regional ceasefire. Trump rejected the Iranian proposal on Saturday.
Araghchi told NBC on Sunday that Iran still wanted a diplomatic solution despite Trump's rejection. "Although we heard from President Trump that he's rejecting this deal, we are still waiting for an official response through the mediators," Araghchi said.
Iran continued to stand by its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the Gulf front of the Middle East conflict in a stalemate as fighting continued to rage in Yemen.
A view of a market that was targeted by an aerial attack carried out by a Saudi war jet in Taiz province, Yemen, September 27, 2026. /VCG
Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday that it seized an American submersible drone in the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC said the underwater vehicle was being used "for espionage purposes," adding that it was "now in the hands of the force's specialists for data recovery."
Hossein Mohebi, an IRGC spokesman, told Tasnim News Agency that they will not cease "punishing" the US until Iran's conditions are met.
Mohebi had told AFP in an exclusive interview last Tuesday that ending hostilities in Yemen was also among Tehran's demands.
Yemen's Houthi group said on Sunday that Saudi warplanes had carried out 26 airstrikes across five Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours, while government forces said they had conducted hundreds of attacks against Houthi military targets in the past three days.
In a statement posted on social media platform X, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said that Saudi F-15 fighter jets operating from Khamis Mushait Air Base carried out the strikes on Taiz, Al-Jawf, Marib, Dhamar and Saada provinces.
Sarea said the strikes caused casualties but gave no detailed toll, adding that they brought the number of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks since the current escalation began to 1,085, a figure that could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile, Yemeni government forces said Sunday that they had carried out 756 attacks against Houthi positions, personnel, and military capabilities across several areas of Yemen over the previous 72 hours.
Majid al-Nuzaili, a spokesperson for the government forces, said in a statement on X that the operations destroyed or disabled military vehicles, missile launchers, weapons depots and other equipment. Al-Nuzaili said that 2,316 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded in the operations.
There was no immediate response from the Houthis to the government forces' claims.
