"What is happening today is massive surrender by the US to Iran; the Iranians are setting the tone, the US is releasing funds to Iran," he said.

Iran has officially started the public funeral of its former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as per local media reports. Tehran is expecting over 20 million people to gather for the same. Iran has also said that the US has issued directives to all its embassies across the world to pressure countries from attending Khamenei's funeral,

The United States and Iran agreed to halt attacks after trading strikes over the weekend, shrouding the wider region and the status of peace talks into uncertainty.

Negotiations between the US and Iran are set to resume on June 11, following Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s days-long funeral, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news outlet reports. According to the report,

ANKARA, July 4 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Middle East peace efforts could not succeed without regional backing and that Israel must not be allowed to "dynamite" the U.

"The Israelis are undoubtedly seeking to disrupt the Iran-US MoU," Ghalibaf added, "but the deterrent power of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region will prevent them from starting a war again."

The Iranian president described the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran as a breach of international law and said Tehran would use all available legal and diplomatic mechanisms to seek accountability.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has warned of an Iranian response if the U.S. and Israel breach the interim peace deal, as Tehran prepares to bury its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.