US-Iran War Live Updates: Iran says 'no meetings' despite Trump whispers

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Peace talks appear to be going ahead, at a date later this week in Qatar, despite Tehran saying no meeting were scheduled.

US President Donald Trump has raged over Congress votes, the price of fuel and mainstream media, but has been largely quiet on Iran.

He maintains that he will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

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US President Donald Trump has given a golden eagle statue as a gift to the White House, presumably to be hung above the entrance to the famed residence.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump said the eagle was “A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!”

The White House also reposted the message on X, with many in the comments attempting to decode the symbols of the statue.

It is unclear if the eagle is a gift from Trump’s personal pocket, or purchased with administration funds.

During the war, Iran’s attacks and threats stopped cargo ships and tankers from moving through the Strait of Hormuz, creating a global energy crisis.

In recent days, Iran has twice attacked vessels in the strait — including a tanker filled with Qatari crude — following efforts to open Oman’s territorial waters to both inbound and outbound traffic from the Persian Gulf.

The attacks drew retaliatory American airstrikes and raised concerns that negotiations to reach a formal end to the war could be disrupted. Iran launched drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday.

The strait has long been considered an international waterway despite being in Iran and Oman’s territorial waters.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is currently en route to Doha, two US officials tell CNN.

It was not immediately clear if Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were travelling together to the Qatari capital.

Trump said earlier Monday that the US would meet with Iran in Doha on Tuesday.

A senior US official, meanwhile, told CNN over the weekend that technical talks regarding the memorandum of understanding were “on track” as planned despite a recent exchange of fire.

It’s not a controversial statement that Donald Trump loves putting his name on things, to the point where a court had to rule against his bid to add his name to the John F Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts.

But it seems the rest of the US is less enthused.

Social Security data in the US showed that the name “Donald” slid to its most unpopular spot ever on the list of US baby names in 2025, ranking 690th with fewer than 400 babies named Donald through the first year of Trump’s second term in office.

In full fairness, as US news outlet NOTUS points out, the drop continued a historic trend of the name falling out of favour for decades now - a trend which actually reversed with a slight jump during 2017, Trump’s first year as president.

Donald only fell out of the top 100 baby boy names in the US in the 1990s, but has declined rapidly from there.

By comparison, in NSW - the home state of Sir Donald Bradman - since records began to be collected, the name’s popularity peaked in 1953, at 40th.

It hasn’t been in the state’s top 100 names since 1970.

Iran’s president appears to have taken an online potshot at his counterpart in the White House.

On social media site X, President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the heightened tension between Iran and the US in recent days.

“Mutual understanding is a two-way street. If the American side adheres to the agreement, we will also fulfill our commitments,” he said.

“Our approach to unreasonable sabre-rattling and baseless threats is to rely on rationality and human dignity in decision-making, and to defend decisively and fearlessly when it comes time to act.”

President Donald Trump was not mentioned by name, but it is likely a reference to his preferred online diplomacy tactic of alternating between high-octane threats and praising steps of progress.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Steve Witkoff, who is the special envoy, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are flying to Qatar to meet with the Iranians.

Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that those talks would be “high level” and that technical negotiations would occur on the sidelines. Iran has denied that the talks are happening.

Trump accused Iran of violating the ceasefire by attacking a ship last week in Strait of Hormuz, but so far the interim deal for negotiations to take place appears to have held.

Trump offered a lukewarm view of the talks.

“The meeting in Doha is going to be perhaps important, perhaps not — we’re going to find out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

Conflict between Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces in south Lebanon continued over the weekend, days after the countries signed a new agreement.

The Israeli military said it struck three “Hezbollah command centers” in south Lebanon’s Nabatieh and Mayfadoun on Sunday. Israeli forces also dismantled what they said was a launcher that Hezbollah used to direct attacks at them, it added.

In a separate statement on Monday, Hezbollah said Israeli forces struck residential buildings in Nabatieh and Mayfadoun, among other attacks, calling them “a blatant violation of the ceasefire.”

Amid the confusion of whether peace talks are resuming, US President Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social with a simple message:

“Highest Poll Numbers Ever. Even Higher than Election Day, November 5th. This despite the fact that, IRAN WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” he wrote.

Much of the president’s Truth Social activity this morning has been focused on