Iran said messages are still being passed to the United States through intermediaries and that Tehran remains open to diplomacy, as concerns rose about a return to all-out war ahead of elections in the United States and Israel, the Associated Press reported.

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Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said Tehran had not closed the window of diplomacy. State media said Baghaei, speaking in an interview with a German broadcaster, said the US appeared to persist in unilateral demands and that Trump and US officials repeatedly used the phrase "complete surrender", which he said no Iranian accepts. Negotiations over the war have appeared to stall for weeks, AP reported.

Asked whether he planned to launch an attack on Iran, US President Donald Trump initially suggested he would be foolish to telegraph that, but then added: "No. There will not be a strike today." The statement covered Sunday only and did not rule out future action.

At the same time, the head of US Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, flew over the Strait of Hormuz and said more than 3,000 commercial vessels had transited the waterway with US military support over the last six months, AP reported. Al Jazeera reported that Qatari mediators visited Tehran on Sunday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his warning that Iran or its proxies could attack ahead of Tuesday's close elections in Israel to disrupt the vote, citing intelligence, AP reported. Separately, the International Committee of the Red Cross has begun receiving lists again of Palestinian detainees from the occupied West Bank and Gaza after the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to resume sharing them, AP reported.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that a possible resumption of war with Israel and the United States would not change his country's positions, CBS News reported.