Iran not backing down before ceasefire ends, criticizes U.S. for violating truce again

With apparently just hours to go before a two-week ceasefire ends between the U.S. and Iran, the country’s foreign minister is not backing down from accusations the U.S. has broken the ceasefire.

“Blockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire,” Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on X. “Striking a commercial vessel and taking its crew hostage is an even greater violation.”

Araghchi accused the U.S. of “bullying” Iran and said it “knows how to neutralize restrictions and “how to defend its interests.”

President Trump also accused Iran on Tuesday of violating the ceasefire “numerous times.”