Middle East crisis live: confusion over Iran's response to US proposal to end war

Various news agencies and Iranian state media have reported that Tehran has responded "negatively" to the US proposal to end the war, but there are contradictory statements over whether it has rejected it outright.

Reuters news agency, citing a senior Iranian official, reported that Tehran's initial response to the proposal was "not positive" but that it was still reviewing it.

That is at odds with a report by the Iranian state-owned Press TV, which quoted a senior political security official saying Tehran has rejected the proposal, while putting forward its own conditions to end the war...