Trump says we're 'blowing up the whole country' if Iran doesn't make deal in 48 hours

Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, said Monday that Iran has “not had any negotiations with America,” even though President Donald Trump said this weekend that there have been talks both directly and indirectly.

Baqaei said "they have presented a request for negotiations along with a set of proposals, which has reached us through some intermediaries, including Pakistan.”

“Our position is very clear: we are currently in a situation where the military aggression and invasion by America continues with intensity, and we are certainly exerting all our efforts and capabilities to defend ourselves,” Baqaei said at a news conference.

"The information that has been conveyed to us [from the U.S.], regardless of what name you want to give it, as 15 articles or whatever you call it, involved a large number of requests that are excessive, unrealistic, and illogical,” he said.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on "Fox and Friends" that the U.S. will “retake control” of the Strait of Hormuz either through a U.S. or multinational escort.

Bessent, who was responding to a question about the impact of roughly 30 ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz Sunday and Monday, attempted to quell fears about the state of the global oil trade and the current supply.

“The market is in deficit about 10-to-12 million barrels a day. And we're making up for that deficit,” Bessent said, citing the release of 400 million barrels of oil from the International Energy Agency’s strategic reserve and the U.S. easing sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil already on the water.

“The market is well supplied, and we are seeing more and more ships go through on a daily basis as individual countries cut deals with the Iranian regime for the time being,” Bessent said. “But over time, the U.S. is going to retake control of the Straits and there will be freedom of navigation, whether it is through U.S. or a multinational escort.”

-ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a university in Tehran, Imam Hossein University. The IDF said one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' "central military infrastructure sites" is within the compound of the university, with the IDF calling the school "an emergency asset for the regime’s military bodies."

This comes after the IRGC warned that it now considers American universities in the region legitimate targets, saying if any more of its universities are hit, it will retaliate.

The American University in Beirut has moved all classes online as a precaution.

-ABC News’ Zoe Magee

George Stephanopoulos asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio on "Good Morning America" about President Donald Trump’s assertion on Truth Social that the U.S. was "in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME” about ending the military operation against Iran.

Rubio responded, "Well, I'm not going to disclose to you who those people are, because it probably would get them in trouble with some other groups of people inside of Iran.”

Rubio did say that “there's some fractures" within Iranian leadership.

"And if there are new people now in charge who have a more reasonable vision of the future, that would be good news for us, for them, for the entire world,” he continued. "But we also have to be prepared for the possibility, maybe even the probability that that is not the case.”

When Stephanopoulos pushed Rubio for more clarity, he responded, "you have people there that are saying some of the right things privately.”

"But at the end of the day, we have to see if these people end up being the ones in charge, seeing if they're the ones that have the power to deliver. We're going to test it. We are hopeful that’s the case,” he went on. "There are clearly people there talking to us in ways that previous people in charge in Iran have not spoken to us in the past. ”

Rubio also said that Trump’s comments indicated that he “prefers diplomacy,” despite his threats of repercussions if the talks failed.

-ABC News’ Shannon Kingston