UK lawmaker Burnham thanked Starmer for his leadership.

Iranian media on the 22nd reported foreign ministry spokesman Baghaei said Iran and the U.S. discussed oil sales licenses and the unfreezing of Iranian assets and had made good progress.

Ghalibaf, head of Iran’s negotiating delegation in Switzerland and speaker of the Iranian parliament, said on social media on June 21 that Iran does not take US threats seriously, warned Washington to choose its words carefully and said Iran’s armed forces are fully prepared to respond “in another way.” He added that regardless of US bluster, “we will be the ones to act.” Earlier, Trump posted that “Iran must immediately stop its ‘proxies’ in Lebanon. If not, we will strike Iran again, like last week, and only harder.”