By Trevor Hunnicutt and Saad Sayeed WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, April 19 (Reuters) - Iran rejected new peace talks with the United States, its state news agency reported on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump had said he was sending envoys to Pakistan for talks and would strike Iran unless it accepted his terms.

Oil prices are rising in early trading as a standoff between Iran and the U.S. prevented tankers from using the Strait of Hormuz.

The president accused Tehran of violating the truce and threatened strikes, while Iran warned it would retaliate over the seizure, casting doubt on the timing of new talks.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around a naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first such interception since the

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Ariba Shahid WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, April 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said there had been "some pretty good news about Iran", suggesting optimism about peace talks to end the war on Iran,

Critics say Iran may be creating a “tiered internet” model, where access is limited to the politically and economically privileged.

After declaring the Strait of Hormuz open, Tehran maintained its grip on transit and threatened to close it again if the US kept in place its blockade of Iranian ships and ports.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, said Saturday that the country’s armed forces remain “ready” amid peace talks with the U.S. “It is not the case that we think just