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DUBAI - Iran's security chief Ali Larijani, who was also an adviser to the country's former Supreme Leader, said in a post on X on Monday that Tehran will not negotiate with the US, in response to a report that Iran is trying to revive negotiations with Washington.
Earlier, Al Jazeera, citing The Wall Street Journal, had claimed that the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council had initiated new efforts to resume negotiations with Washington.
In a letter sent to the UN secretary-general and members of the world body's Security Council on Monday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed the stature of the Leader and the gravity of the attack that targeted Ayatollah Khamenei on Saturday as part of the latest bout of fresh unprovoked Israeli-American aggression against the Iranian soil.
The United States hit hundreds of targets across Iran, and Israel expanded its bombing to Lebanon on Monday as President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the first US deaths in the war he launched to topple Tehran's ruling clerics.
Iranian forces fired missiles and drones across the Middle East, killing people in Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in retaliation for the conflict that began Saturday with the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The US military expanded targets across Iran on Sunday. It said it destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite unit tasked with preserving the theocracy in place since 1979.
“The IRGC no longer has a headquarters,” US Central Command said in a statement.
The Israeli military said it was carrying out "large-scale strikes" in the heart of Tehran on Monday and also bombing across Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Armed Shiite Muslim movement closely tied to Iran's Islamic Republic.
An AFP journalist heard explosions in Beirut. Hezbollah, which was weakened by an earlier Israeli offensive, said in a statement that it had fired rockets and drones at Israel “in retaliation for the pure blood” of Khamenei.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have urged the overthrow of the government in Iran, the sworn foe of Israel and the United States since the 1979 Islamic revolution toppled the pro-Western shah. Trump, speaking to the New York Times,
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