The Iranian Tasnim news agency reported that the U.S. has violated its commitments to the preconditions for negotiations.
According to the news agency, among these preconditions are the release of Iranian assets and a cease-fire in Lebanon.
Tasnim said the U.S. has agreed to these conditions, but some of them have not yet been met.
It was reported that the Iranian delegation will raise these violations in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, Reuters reported, citing three people close to his inner circle.
Khamenei's face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme leader's compound in central Tehran and he suffered a significant injury to one or both legs, all three sources said.
Mojtaba is taking part in meetings with senior officials via audio conferencing and is engaged in decision-making on major issues including the war and negotiations with Washington, said two of the sources.
U.S. intelligence indicates China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, CNN reported late on Friday, citing three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments.
The network said there are indications that Beijing is working to route the shipments through third countries to mask their origin.
Beijing is preparing to transfer shoulder-fired anti-air missile systems known as MANPADs, CNN said, citing sources it did not name.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington denied these claims, saying, "China has never provided weapons to any party to the conflict; the information in question is untrue." He also added that "China consistently fulfills its international obligations. We urge the U.S. side to refrain from making baseless allegations."
Earlier this week, CNN reported, citing an embassy spokesperson, that since the war began, Beijing had "been working to help bring about a ceasefire and end to the conflict."
The U.S. and Iran are set to hold high-level negotiations on Saturday in Islamabad, Pakistan, seeking ways to end their six-week-old war.
Most Iranians have been cut off from the internet for more than a thousand hours, according to the internet monitoring group NetBlocks.
The organization, which tracks internet shutdowns, said it is the longest nation-scale internet outage on record in any country.
Since the beginning of the war on February 28, most Iranians have only had access to a restricted internal intranet containing only state-approved content.
By contrast, a small section of the military and the ruling authorities continue to use the internet without restrictions.
The U.S. delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, landed in two U.S. air force planes at an air base in Islamabad on Saturday morning, Pakistani sources said, for negotiations to end the war between the U.S. and Iran.
Here are Friday's updates from the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel's war with Hezbollah:
■ Israeli strikes killed at least 1,953 people in Lebanon and 6,303 wounded others since March 2, the country's Health Ministry said.
■ A fire broke out in Kiryat Shmona, Israel's northernmost city, after it was hit by Hezbollah fire from Lebanon, emergency services reported.
■ An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, medics said.
■ The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon to the United States spoke over the phone with U.S. mediation on Friday, in what the Lebanese Presidency called the first direct diplomatic contact between the countries in a post on X announcing the call.
■ Iran's negotiating delegation arrived in Islamabad on Friday for peace talks with the United States, Iranian media reported, adding that negotiations would begin if Washington accepted Tehran's "preconditions."
■ Iran has failed to open the Strait of Hormuz because it has been unable to find and remove the naval mines it had laid in the waterway, The New York Times reported, citing U.S. officials.
■ Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles and can use them by retrieving launchers from underground sites, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. intelligence assessments.
Yotam Haim, who taken hostage on October 7, 2023 and fatally shot by IDF soldiers 65 days later in Gaza.Credit: Ben YitzchakYotam Haim, who taken hostage on October 7, 2023 and fatally shot by IDF soldiers 65 days later in Gaza.Credit: Ben Yitzchak
The Be'er Sheva Family Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the parents of a hostage killed by IDF fire in Gaza to use his sperm for fertilization.
The man, 28-year-old Yotan Haim from Kibbutz Kfar Azza, was killed in December 2023 alongside Samer Fuad El-Talalka, 24, from Hura, who was abducted from his workplace in Nir Am, and Alon Shamriz, 26, also from Kibbutz Kfar Azza. A group of IDF soldiers fatally shot the three in Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood 65 days after their abduction on October 7, 2023.
In his Thursday ruling, Judge Ariel Maman wrote that he was convinced that "Yotam's presumed wish was for his sperm to be used to bring children into the world, even after his death." Maman also wrote that the parents' testimonies regarding conversations with their son on the matter were among the things that influenced his decision.
Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks on Monday.Credit: Jack Guez/AFPRocket trails are seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks on Monday.Credit: Jack Guez/AFP
Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles and can use them by retrieving launchers from underground sites, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. intelligence assessments.
Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements last month that Iran "has no ability" to rebuild its missile capabilities and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's claims earlier this week that they are "functionally destroyed," U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Tehran can reconstitute some of its abilities.
Despite U.S. officials saying more than half of Iran's missile launchers have been destroyed, damaged or buried, Tehran is still able to repair them or dig them out, according to the Wall Street Journal. Tehran has reportedly managed to preserve around half of its missile and attack drone stockpile.
An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, medics said.
It was not immediately clear whether all those killed were police members. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. A series of Israeli strikes has killed dozens of Hamas-led police force members since October, according to medics and police sources.
Israel and Hamas reached a U.S.-brokered deal last October that was meant to halt violence in the Palestinian territory. Both sides accuse each other of breaching the agreement. Israeli fire has killed at least 700 Palestinians since the deal was struck, while four Israeli soldiers have been killed by militants in the same period.
