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US-Iran talks in Switzerland stall, Waltz warns Tehran over Hormuz
Summary
• US-Iran talks expected to resume this weekend in Switzerland have been stalled amid recent hostilities, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
• US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said on Sunday the United States would continue targeting Iranian military infrastructure if Tehran threatened shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on the judiciary on Sunday to pursue domestic and international legal cases over damage from US-Israeli strikes Iran.
• Iran alone is responsible for managing and fully reopening maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz under recent understandings, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday in Baghdad.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned US airstrikes on several monitoring and surveillance facilities along the country’s southern coast, calling them a renewed violation of an interim agreement meant to end the war.
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US, Iran to continue technical talks - Reuters
• Technical talks between the United States and Iran are set to continue on all areas of the memorandum of understanding, while both sides will stand down for now and vessels will be able to move freely, a US official told Reuters.
•The comments suggest Washington and Tehran are trying to preserve the fragile de-escalation around the Strait of Hormuz as negotiations move into a more technical phase.
No further details were immediately available on the timing or location of the next round of talks.
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INSIGHT
Khamenei mourning site shut amid hardliners' rift
A mourning site set up near the place where Ali Khamenei was killedhas been shut down after shroud-wearing ultra-hardliners turned it into a three-day sit-in, exposing a widening rift inside Iran’s loyalist campover how to use the slain leader’s memory.
The site, known as Ravagh Keshvardoust, had been turned into a shrine-like space in central Tehran for prayer, mourning and ritual gatherings after Khamenei’s killing.
In Iranian religious architecture, a ravagh usually refers to a covered hall or portico attached to a shrine. In this case, the term was being used for a temporary devotional space around the site of Khamenei’s death.
According to Jamaran, a news outlet close to the family of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini, organizers closed the site after a group of kafan-poushan, or shroud-wearers, arrived from Mashhad on Ashura (June 25) and occupied the space under the banner of “avenging the blood of the slain leader.”
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Putin says Russia ready to resume US talks on Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow expects to resume discussions with the United States on Iran once the current active phase of the crisis has passed.
"Once all the developments in the active phase on the Iran track are over, we expect to welcome the representatives of the U.S. administration, with whom we have already met repeatedly in Moscow," Putin said.
He added that Russia was ready to continue negotiations and discuss "all the details" and "all the modalities" of the issues previously raised during talks in Anchorage, Alaska last summer.
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Exiled prince calls on Iranians to protest Trump's Iran policy
Iran's exiled prince Reza Pahlavi has called on the United States not to engage with Tehran, in an apparent protest against President Donald Trump’s diplomatic opening with Iran.
In a call to action, Pahlavi said Iranians would hold a “Global Week of Action for a Free Iran” from July 4 to 9, beginning with gatherings outside US embassies in capitals around the world.
“Our message to the American people and government on their Independence Day is clear:Do not deal with terrorists. Choose the people of Iran,” he said.
Pahlavi said the campaign would coincide with what he described as the Islamic Republic’s “propaganda and deceptive programs” around the burial of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as well as the sixth month anniversary of the January 8-9 uprising.
“Two hundred and fifty years ago, America chose freedom,” he said. “Today, the people of Iran are also fighting for freedom.” (This guy is a loser and he’s dreaming he can be the leader of Iran again. If Iran sees him, they’ll kill him, and if they see the people following they will do the same.)
https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202606274036