See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 13:34 BST, 29 June 2026 | Updated: 14:19 BST, 29 June 2026
Donald Trump boasted that Iran had asked for peace talks tomorrow, only for Tehran to flatly deny any meeting exists after a weekend of carnage and rocket fire.'Iran has requested a meeting. It will take place tomorrow in DOHA!' Trump wrote to his followers on Truth Social. Meanwhile, moments before Trump issued his shock statement, the Iranian deputy foreign minister said, 'No technical meetings of the working groups are planned for this week.'Trump's peace talk claims come after both countries exchanged a barrage of rocket fire and carnage over the weekend, threatening to destroy the fragile nuclear negotiations aimed at ending the war.House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the US plans to dispatch Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to lead the talks.The violence erupted last week after Iran unleashed a swarm of one-way suicide drones on US-backed cargo ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply. The US military responded by destroying Iranian missile and drone storage locations as well as radar sites along the Persian Gulf.'Violence will be met with violence...there were attacks on commercial vessels that the United States of America, directed by the President, responded to,' Leavitt said.Global oil prices have ticked upward amid the uncertainty in the region, with Brent crude edging up to around $72 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) advancing near $70 a barrel. Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are back on and will take place tomorrow in Qatar An oil tanker burns after being hit by an Iranian strike in the ship-to-ship transfer zone at Khor al-Zubair port near Basra, Iraq, late Wednesday, March 11 Iran's foreign ministry said, 'No technical meetings of the working groups are planned for this week' Trump's peace talk claims come after both countries exchanged a barrage of rocket fire and carnage over the weekendThe Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment.In upcoming negotiations US diplomats are demanding that the regime abandon its nuclear ambitions and handover their stockpile of enrich uranium. Iran, meanwhile, wants to jointly control the Strait of Hormuz as well as for the US unfreeze billions in frozen assets in the Middle East.Since the war began, Iran has been able to close the Strait of Hormuz by deploying speedboats, drones and sea mines. A media outlet linked to the Iran's militant Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said the country has 'no choice' but to develop a nuclear bomb. Iranian state news published an article entitled 'No choice but to build the atomic bomb,' arguing the regime must negotiate with the US from a position of strength. 'To achieve the peace and calm that Iran needs, it must absolutely reach nuclear deterrence to ensure that the rest of the issues can be resolved through negotiation,' the article states.The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last week, committed Iran to using its 'best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days.'
