Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is fully prepared for the war with the US to resume, "even if it comes to a doomsday war," while remaining open to diplomacy, a day after President Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal. Iran's delegation in New York has no new round of negotiations planned and is awaiting Washington's response to proposals conveyed through Qatar last Tuesday, Iran's state-run IRNA reported, and Araghchi is due to leave New York on Tuesday after completing his scheduled engagements.

Trump told Axios he expects US negotiators to hold more talks with Iran this week, with regional sources saying another round of indirect negotiations could take place as early as Monday. "They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make. It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand," Trump said, adding that he is "always thinking about" resuming strikes. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, though he publicly insists the election plays no role in his thinking on Iran.

The rejected plan would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz on the sixth day in exchange for lifting the US naval blockade, releasing frozen Iranian assets and easing oil sanctions, with talks on a final deal starting on day seven. US officials say success at moving oil out of the strait, roughly 60 million barrels in the past 72 hours according to Axios, has removed the urgency of a deal. Analyst Hamidreza Azizi said the rejection strengthens hardliners in Tehran who argue Iran can only strike a deal from a stronger position, and that further Iranian escalation in the strait before the midterms would not be a surprise.