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President Donald Trump has confirmed that a second round of US-Iran peace talks will not take place.

Getting into it: Trump made the announcement Saturday after pulling the plug on a planned trip to Islamabad by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, saying the nearly 18-hour journey wasn’t worth it. “I said, ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there,'” Trump told Fox News. “They can call us anytime they want.” Notably, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had already departed Pakistan without meeting any US officials, heading first to Oman and then to Russia.

Trump also claimed Iran scrambled a fresh offer almost as soon as the trip got nixed. “They gave us a paper that should have been better, and interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within ten minutes, we got a new paper that was much better,” he said, though he declined to elaborate on its contents. On X, Araghchi said he laid out what he called Iran’s “workable framework to permanently end the war” for the Pakistanis, then added: “Have yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy.”

As of now, both sides are still far apart. Iran still has its enriched uranium pile, still has its grip on the strait, still has its missile arsenal, and still bankrolls the regional proxies the US and Israel want gone. The IRGC made clear Saturday it’s not letting up on the strait and Trump’s red line hasn’t budged: Iran “will not have a nuclear weapon.”

This all comes as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the moment to take aim at Trump’s handling of the conflict at a New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner Saturday. “Donald Trump was caught by surprise,” she said. “He couldn’t believe that they would close the Strait of Hormuz. He walked right into the trap, and he gave Iran a powerful new strategic advantage. Because of Trump, they now know they can close the strait whenever they want and bring the global economy to its knees.”

In addition to all of this, the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire also showed fresh cracks Saturday, with Israeli forces hitting targets in southern Lebanon, taking out at least six fighters Israel says belonged to Hezbollah, while rockets and drones flew the other way out of Lebanon toward Israeli territory.