The Iran Brief — April 20, 2026

Iran's Foreign Ministry declared this morning that Tehran has no plans for another round of nuclear negotiations with the United States. That announcement came just hours after President Trump posted on social media that American negotiators would be in Pakistan today for talks with Iran. The two accounts are flatly contradictory — and that contradiction is at the center of everything we're covering this morning, including a seized Iranian cargo ship, a two-week ceasefire deadline, and oil markets reacting to the uncertainty. Stay with us.