Iran live updates: Rubio dismisses Iran peace proposal, stresses nuclear issue

Speaking to a reporter in St. Petersburg during his visit to Russia, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the U.S. had achieved none of its goals and was therefore asking for negotiations -- a request Araghchi said Iran is "considering."

Regarding bilateral Iranian-Russian relations, Araghchi said the two countries are "strategic partners" and that cooperation between them would continue.

-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian and Joe Simonetti

U.S. Central Command said in a post to X on Monday that the guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta intercepted the M/T Stream vessel "after it attempted to sail to an Iranian port" on Sunday.

Iran relocated two seized cargo vessels -- the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas -- to anchor positions close to Hormuz Island in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz close to the Iranian coastline, according to satellite imagery taken on April 27.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the seizure of the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz last week, accusing the vessels of "attempting to secretly exit the Strait of Hormuz" without coordination with Tehran.

The satellite images were captured by the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite.

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post to X on Monday that Iran's oil industry is "creaking" under the pressure of the U.S. naval blockade, predicting that the country's ability to pump oil "will soon collapse."

"While the surviving IRGC Leaders are trapped like drowning rats in a sewage pipe, Iran's creaking oil industry is starting to shut in production thanks to the U.S. BLOCKADE," Bessent wrote.

"Pumping will soon collapse. GASOLINE SHORTAGES IN IRAN NEXT!" he added.