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A top Iranian official has pushed back on claims made by President Trump that Iran is seeking to resume negotiations with the United States.

Some shit you should know before you dig in: Over the last 24 hours, President Trump and White House officials have suggested that diplomatic talks with Iran may still be possible despite the ongoing military campaign. Trump told The Atlantic, “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them.” A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to AP, said Iran’s “new potential leadership” had signaled openness to negotiations, though the official did not specify who was involved or how the message was delivered.

What’s going on now: In a series of posts on X, Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a close confidant of the country’s late supreme leader, rejected the claims that Iran is pursuing talks. He wrote, “We will not negotiate with the United States,” and accused President Trump of bringing the region into chaos with his“delusional fantasies.” He said Trump “turned his self-made ‘America First’ slogan into ‘Israel First’ and sacrificed American soldiers for Israel’s power-hungry ambitions,” adding that the president is now “rightly worried about more American casualties.”

Iranian officials have framed the ongoing US-Israeli military operations as a coordinated effort to decapitate Iran’s leadership, pointing to the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the opening wave of strikes and reports that US intelligence had tracked senior Iranian officials prior to the attack.

The confrontation has widened beyond Iran’s borders, with Hezbollah launching projectiles toward northern Israel, according to Israeli officials. Israel responded with strikes that killed Hezbollah intelligence chief Hussein Makled, with Lebanon’s Health Ministry reporting 31 people killed and 149 injured in Israeli attacks. In Israel, an Iranian missile strike on a bomb shelter at a synagogue in Beit Shemesh killed nine people, according to local reporting.

Iranian authorities, including the Iranian Red Crescent Society, report at least 555 people killed in US and Israeli airstrikes. The US military has confirmed that four American service members have been killed since the operation began, with several others seriously wounded.