An Iranian official has suggested technical talks with the United States are on hold as both sides accused each other of not sticking to an interim agreement.
A policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Trump administration wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.
The US Secretary of State made the pledge while wrapping up a Middle East trip aimed at selling the Trump administration’s interim agreement to sceptical regional partners.
The US President said while he didn’t know much about the UK’s likely next leader Andy Burnham, he described him as ‘a mayor of a town’ who leaned to the left.
A week after the two countries signed their interim ceasefire deal, their leaders have repeatedly disagreed in public about what that document actually means.
The US Senate has voted on a war powers resolution seeking to decide whether US military action against Iran should continue, although largely symbolic.