Rubio ordered Iranian delegation to leave US after talks stalled

"The delegation boarded a flight from New York to Doha at 1.20 am local time on Tuesday, the US official said, according to. Axios.

A second source was quoted as saying that Araghchi had already been scheduled to travel back to Tehran on Monday night., the White House had expected possible progress in talks with Iran on Monday morning, but by late afternoon, it became clear the negotiations had reached a stalemate.

Qatari mediators are continuing talks with both sides on a compromise proposal, the report cited regional sources as saying. Iran says it receives US response to latest proposal as Washington pulls out of Iraq.

Iran said on Wednesday it had received a US response to its latest proposal to resurrect the ​collapsed ceasefire in the Gulf, days after President Donald Trump said he had rejected it.

Iran's allies were celebrating on Wednesday after Washington withdrew the last of its forces from neighbouring Iraq, ‌where 4,500 US troops died in the biggest US war of the century. More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in chaos unleashed after US forces toppled dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Tehran views the pullout as a victory for its "axis of resistance" of allied armed groups, and a step towards its aim of driving US forces out of the region.

With the US-Israeli war against Iran now entering its eighth month, Iran put forward a proposal last week under which the United States would ​lift its blockade of Iranian ports, and Iran would reopen the disrupted Strait of Hormuz within seven days.

Trump said on Sunday he had rejected the proposal, although Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi ​said Tehran had not received a formal rejection. In a post on X on Wednesday, an Iranian government spokesperson said Araqchi had conveyed a US response ⁠to the Iranian government.

Iran says its plan aims to restore an interim agreement which collapsed weeks after it was signed by Trump and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian in June.

Last week, Qatari mediators shuttled between US ​and Iranian envoys in New York on the sidelines of a meeting of the United Nations, the first proximity talks between the warring sides since the ceasefire unravelled. An official briefed on the talks, who is not ​Iranian and spoke to.

Reuterson condition of anonymity, said the Qataris had briefed Araqchi on the US response on Tuesday when Araqchi stopped off in Doha on his way home from New York., the sides largely agree about the steps that are needed but still disagree about the order in which to take them.

Iran wants an eventual deal to grant it control over the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil shipping route, which runs past ​its coast. Shipping through the strait has increased in recent weeks, with shippers charging high fees to brave the risk of attacks.

But flows of crude oil, refined products and natural gas remain substantially disrupted. In ​the latest incidents, Britain's UKMTO maritime security body reported on Wednesday that two ships had been hit by projectiles the previous day.