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De VS en Iran overwegen een tweede ronde vredesonderhandelingen, voordat het staakt-het-vuren volgende week afloopt.

A broad hope for a US deal with Iran to end weeks of conflict has spurred investor confidence in riskier assets. Bitcoin has surged to its highest price in nearly a month, triggering hundreds of millions worth of liquidations as hopes of a deal between the Trump administration and Iran washed the crypto market with positive sentiment. The crypto market surged to a total value of $2.6 trillion, its highest level for a month, liquidating 177,000 traders of $530 million over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. The majority of liquidations occurred in the past 12 hours, and 80% of them, or $425 million, were leveraged short positions in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).  Read more

Iran heeft volgens The New York Times aan Amerikaanse onderhandelaars voorgesteld om het kernprogramma voor vijf jaar stil te leggen. Twee bronnen aan Iraanse kant en een Amerikaanse bron zeggen tegen de krant dat daar op maandag een voorstel over is gedaan, dat door de Amerikanen zou zijn geweigerd. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten in ons liveblog.

De Amerikaanse krijgsmacht blokkeert sinds maandagmiddag de Straat van Hormuz. Iran noemde de blokkade van de zeestraat een schending van het staakt-het-vuren en dreigde krachtig te reageren. Die reactie bleef in ieder geval de eerste uren na het ingaan van de blokkade uit.

MK Tzvika Foghel addressed the U.S. president on X in Hebrew: 'Donald, you've [turned out to be] a duck,' a remark he deleted several hours later. The post appeared shortly after the announcement of a two-week cease-fire between the United States and Iran

The offer reportedly included sanctions relief and was raised in Pakistan-based talks, but it remains unclear what limits, if any, would apply after the 20-year period. Iran instead proposed a shorter pause and rejected a U.S. demand to transfer its stockpile of highly enriched uranium abroad

According to a Haaretz investigation, while at the beginning of the war only 5 percent of missiles launched from Iran hit sites in Israel, the number was 27 percent for the last five days. Four out of five missiles that struck were cluster missiles

Even as the Finance Ministry says reserves can cover costs if fighting doesn't expand, the Defense Ministry pegs the Iran campaign higher and is expected to push for roughly $9B more, including for Lebanon operations

Bitcoin preserved $70,000 at the weekly close as markets began reacting to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Bitcoin (BTC) held $70,000 at the weekly close as markets reacted to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz. A breakdown in US-Iran negotiations sends oil surging above $100 per barrel, with the Strait of Hormuz now blockaded. US PPI inflation data is due amid signs that the oil crisis is far from the only driver of price increases. Read more

Vance could never have struck a deal on what Iran and the U.S. have been unable to resolve for years. As the president sways between declaring victory and restarting the war, Netanyahu tries to ramp up Israel's public opinion for another round of fighting

Fallout from the Iran war will likely weigh on markets for much of 2026, dashing hopes of rate cuts until Q3 by the earliest, the Coin Bureau's Nic Puckrin said. Now almost a week old, the Bitcoin (BTC) recovery is “fragile” as the crypto market faces geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds from the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Nic Puckrin, a crypto market analyst and founder of the Coin Bureau media outlet. “Even if the war ends now, its repercussions will likely be the story of 2026, and certainly the dominant narrative for Q2. I don’t expect to see a rate cut until late Q3 or Q4, if at all,” Puckrin told Cointelegraph. He said that he sees:  If Bitcoin closes the week above $71,000, it could signal continued upside for BTC, with resistance forming around the $74,000 level, he said. At last look, it was trading at about $71,276, according to TradingView data. Read more

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar urged the United States and Iran to remain committed to a ceasefire after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement on Sunday. “It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to the ceasefire,” Dar said in a press conference following the conclusion of the 21-hour marathon talks. Dar expressed Pakistan’s readiness to continue to play its role to “facilitate engagement and dialogue” between the US and Iran. He hoped that both sides would “continue with the positive spirit to achieve durable peace and prosperity for the entire region and beyond”. The foreign minister also thanked Iran and the US for following through on the ceasefire call by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and accepting the invitation for the Islamabad Talks. Dar stated that he, along with Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, “helped mediate several rounds of intense and constructive negotiations between...

'This whole thing about the prime minister coming in and dragging the president into this, it's for publicity purposes,' Leiter argued, after NYT reporters published an extensive report about Netanyahu's role in Trump's decision to go to war with Iran

61% of Israelis oppose the Iran cease-fire and 73% expect fighting to resume within a year, an INSS poll shows. It also found 69% support for continuing operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon

De Amerikaanse krijgsmacht gaat de Straat van Hormuz blokkeren, kondigt Donald Trump aan in een bericht op Truth Social. Daarmee wil de Amerikaanse president afdwingen dat Iran stopt met het selectief doorlaten van schepen door de zeestraat.

Tehran's regime has emerged largely unchanged, and the mere fact that it is negotiating with Washington has granted it U.S. – and thus global – legitimacy. Iran views this legitimacy as its most important asset in the talks, and therefore seems unlikely to budge on uranium enrichment or its missile program

The US-Iran ceasefire made oil retreat, European equities posted their largest single-day gain in more than four years, and crypto joined the relief wave alongside everything else. During the relief, traders rotated sharply into privacy-adjacent names, pushing Zcash up roughly 59.6% over seven days and Dash up about 47.3% over the same window. CryptoSlate's privacy […] The post Zcash beats Bitcoin by 46% as privacy coins decouple during Iran War appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin kept part of the ceasefire bounce, but the chain still has not confirmed the move Bitcoin is still holding around $71,000 after the weekend’s ceasefire-driven risk bounce, even as the macro story behind that move has already started to fray. That leaves the market in an awkward middle ground. Price kept part of the […] The post Bitcoin sits on a knife edge but holds $71k as “no Iran deal” spooks market over the weekend appeared first on CryptoSlate.

After their face-to-face talks yielded no agreement, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said it was now time for the United States to decide whether it can “earn” Tehran’s trust. In a post on X, written in Persian, Ghalibaf said: “America has understood our logic and principles, and now it’s time for it to decide whether it can earn our trust or not?” Ghalibaf, who led the Iranian delegation, recalled that before the negotiations, he “emphasised that we have the necessary good faith and will, but due to the experiences of the two previous wars, we have no trust in the opposing side”. “My colleagues on the Iranian delegation Minaab168 raised forward-looking initiatives, but the opposing side ultimately failed to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations,” he added. The Iranian parliament speaker went on to state: “We certainly consider diplomacy of authority to be another method, alongside military struggle, for achieving the rights of the Iranian people, ...

The Vice President said he would return to Washington without a deal, emphasizing that the U.S. had clearly outlined its conditions. 'We have made very clear what our red lines are,' Vance said, 'Iran has chosen not to accept our terms'