Trump Says Iran Requested Meeting in Doha After U.S. Halted Strikes With Iran

President Donald Trump said on Monday that “IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!” after renewed strikes across the Persian Gulf threatened to derail an interim peace effort.

The U.S. and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other, with a senior U.S. official telling Axios, “We decided to stop all the kinetic activity,” as talks were planned in Qatar’s capital this week.

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Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi denied any technical talks were scheduled, saying, “Reports by some media about technical talks by the working groups being held in Doha are not confirmed.”

The dispute centers on the Strait of Hormuz, where the U.S. and Iran’s memorandum of understanding is meant to reopen the waterway and where competing interpretations have driven weekend attacks.

In the background of the diplomacy, the U.S. said it hit 10 Iranian military targets in and around the Strait of Hormuz after an Iranian drone attack on a crude oil tanker, according to U.S. Central Command.

While Trump said the meeting would occur Tuesday in Doha, Iranian officials disputed this assertion, with Kazem Gharibabadi telling reporters that “no technical talks are scheduled for this week.”

The Hill reported a U.S. official saying, “Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” as the ceasefire was tested by renewed fighting.

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PBS reported that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would fly to Qatar, while Gharibabadi denied any talks had been scheduled.

NPR described the same clash of narratives, noting that Gharibabadi said technical talks with the U.S. were not planned for this week and would be held only “when the conditions are met.”

The competing accounts also extended to the interim deal’s implementation, with PBS stating that Qatar was expected to release $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets, while U.S. officials said no frozen assets had been released so far.

Beyond the immediate question of whether talks proceed, the sources tie the stakes to control and management of the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran says it will de-mine “solely” and where Gharibabadi responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments.

DW reported Gharibabadi’s position that the removal of mines from the Strait of Hormuz should be carried out solely by Iran, in accordance with the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between Tehran and Washington.

The Hill described how Iran asserted its authority over the Strait of Hormuz, warning that safe passage could only be guaranteed for ships that coordinated with the government after Trump accused Iran of hitting a commercial vessel near the coast of Oman.

Reuters-linked reporting in The Detroit News said the U.S. and Iran signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding on June 17 to cease hostilities and reopen the strait, through which “a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas typically transits.”

As the talks shift to Doha, the sources also frame the interim deal’s asset release as a central lever, with PBS quoting Masoud Pezeshkian saying $6 billion out of $12 billion of Iranian resources in Qatar would be released and returned.