US President Trump's claim that Tehran called up Washington seeking negotiations comes just a few hours after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a cartoon on X.

Iran says it is ready to hold discussions with the US after President Donald Trump said Tehran had called his administration to negotiate. Follow for live updates

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran proposed negotiations after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown targeting demonstrators there, a move coming as activists said the death toll in protests rose to at least 544.

Iran's top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there "completely false." Meanwhile, the overall death toll from a bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 5,

United States President Donald Trump has said he is in talks with Iranian opposition leaders as he places United States military intervention on the

President Trump doubles down on Iran threats as protests become deadlier, but also offers talks.

It comes as the U.S. sends military assets to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other warships, in what Trump described as an “armada” that could strike Iran over its deadly crackdown on protests.

The remark came as the president unveiled a new international Board of Peace, billed as an oversight body for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.