Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani says the Islamic Republic will hold no negotiations with the United States after Washington and Tel Aviv waged war against the country.

Larijani made the remark in a post on his X account on Monday in response to a report by The Wall Street Journal claiming that he had started new efforts to resume talks with the US.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on Saturday, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The Saturday attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian administration on Sunday declared 40 days of public mourning and seven days of holidays following the Leader’s martyrdom.

The aggression was launched as Tehran and Washington had held three rounds of indirect negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Swiss city of Geneva and planned to open technical talks in Vienna, Austria, last Monday.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.

On the second day of the joint aggression, US President Donald Trump claimed that Iranian authorities wanted to hold talks with Washington.

In another post on X, Larijani said the US president had caused turmoil in the region as a result of his “pipe dreams” and is now concerned about more losses on the American servicemen.

The top Iranian security official added that Trump changed the self-made slogan of “America First” to “Israel First” through his illusion-driven performance and sacrificed the American soldiers for the sake of Israel’s ambitions.

Larijani emphasized that the American soldiers and their families are bearing the brunt of Trump’s lie mongering and his ill nature.

“Today, the Iranian nation is defending itself. Iran’s Armed Forces have not launched any aggression,” the SNSC secretary pointed out, emphasizing it was not Iran that initiated the war.

Iran has reaffirmed its policy to promote peace in the region but pledged that it will not hesitate to defend its territorial integrity against any act of aggression.

Iranian officials have also already called on the country’s neighbors not to allow their soil to be used by the US and Israel for any attack against the Islamic Republic, warning to retaliate.

An anchor on Iranian state television broke down in tears during a live broadcast on Sunday while announcing the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, visibly struggling to continue as he delivered the news.

Footage shows the presenter sobbing openly in the studio, pausing repeatedly as he attempted to read the official announcement of Khamenei’s death following joint military operations by the United States and Israel targeting Tehran.

Iranian state television had earlier confirmed that Khamenei was martyred in strikes carried out on Saturday. The supreme leader, who had ruled since 1989, held ultimate authority over Iran’s political, military and religious institutions and was widely regarded as the central pillar of the country’s power structure.

The announcement comes amid rapidly escalating regional tensions. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had vowed to dismantle Iran’s missile capabilities as part of the joint operation.

In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had launched large-scale missile and drone attacks against Israeli targets, while reports indicated strikes on US military facilities across the region, including in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq and Kuwait.

Iranian officials warned that Khamenei’s martyrdom would mark a turning point, with the Revolutionary Guard vowing retaliation and declaring that “this great crime will not go unpunished.”

Indian news channel ABP News was briefly taken off its regular transmission after it was hacked, during which pro-Pakistan slogans were aired on screen, according to monitoring of the broadcast.

During the incident, content related to the Pakistan Army was also aired on the Indian channel, replacing its scheduled programming.

The hacked transmission further showed excerpts from a speech by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Chief of Defence Force (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir.

The ABP News has 50 million subscribers on YouTube, with its channel posting 544,435 videos so far, along with 25,089 billion views. On X, the news channel has two million followers.