Iran will not let the United States decide when war or peace takes place, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on July 27, said an Anadolu report.“We will not allow the United States to determine the time of peace and war,” Baqaei said at a weekly news conference, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Esmaeil Baqaei also said the United States was ‘stuck in a self-made quagmire after five months’.
On July 26, Iranian military spokesperson Amir Mohammad Akraminia said the United States had halted its attacks over the previous two nights and that Iran’s ‘counter-operations’ had also stopped.
According to an Axios report on July 25, US President Donald Trump had directed the US military not to launch new strikes on Iran, ending nearly two weeks of daily attacks.
Tensions between the United States and Iran have intensified in recent weeks, with Washington carrying out attacks on Iran and Tehran responding by targeting what it said were US military facilities and equipment in countries across the region.
Meanwhile, US Central Command said on July 27 that its forces had redirected 17 commercial vessels, disabled two and boarded two while enforcing a US maritime blockade against Iran.In a post on US social media company X, CENTCOM said the actions were carried out to ensure compliance during operations in the Arabian Sea.The command didn’t identify the vessels involved or provide further details on the enforcement actions.