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Iran live updates: US 'low-keying' negotiations with Iran, Trump says
President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. was "semi-negotiating" with Iran.
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.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz the primary flashpoint.
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Netanyahu rejects Board of Peace 15-point plan until Hamas 'truly disarmed'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would reject the 15-point proposal for peace in Gaza put forward by President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.
Trump previously announced an agreement for Hamas to disarm and for the Israel Defense Forces to withdraw from the Gaza Strip as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed last year.
"Israel rejects the 15-point document," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting on Sunday. "The IDF will not make any withdrawal until Hamas is truly disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and citizens."
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
US, Iran passing messages through intermediaries, Tehran says
Messages between the United States and Iran were being passed "through intermediaries," an Iranian official told state media on Sunday, adding that that "the process should not be called negotiations."
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged that the United States continued to violate June's memorandum of understanding, reportedly saying that until that "comes to an end and the United States compensates for what it has violated, the possibility of resuming negotiations does not exist."
Araghchi also reiterated, according to state media, that an agreement with Oman does not mean the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened.
An opening "of the Strait of Hormuz is contingent on the fulfillment of other conditions, and these conditions have been conveyed to the American side through intermediaries," he reportedly said.
-ABC News' Rashid Haddou