Iran denies damage to its infrastructure following a US attack. Rubio says negotiations have made only “little progress”

An Iranian official confirmed to the semi-official Fars News Agency on Monday that the American attack that targeted the Iranian island of Qeshm on Sunday night did not affect any infrastructure or vital services, adding that the targeted sites were far from residential and commercial areas.

Official Iranian media reported explosions late Sunday night on Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranian Electricity Company "Tawanir" also denied the occurrence of any cyber attack or outage in the electricity network in the capital, Tehran.

The Iranian IRNA agency said that after some news and speculation spread about the possibility of a cyberattack on the electricity network in the capital following the incident that occurred at the Tehran refinery, the “Tawanir” company came out to deny the reports of a cyberattack.

Technical investigations indicate that the accident that occurred at the Tehran refinery was related to the internal operations and facilities of this industrial complex, and has nothing to do with the national electricity grid or the operation of the electricity distribution network in the capital.

While an official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy stated that navigation support systems in the south of the Strait of Hormuz were destroyed.

The unnamed official told Iranian state media on Monday that no unauthorized ships passed through this sea lane during Sunday night.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday, Sunday, that negotiations with Iran had made only minimal progress, and that he did not see any imminent breakthrough, adding that Trump preferred a diplomatic solution.

Rubio called Iran's demands "unacceptable" and, at times, "outrageous, absurd, and completely unrealistic."

This comes as CNN quoted US President Donald Trump as saying, during a phone call on Sunday, that it was “highly unlikely” that he would order new attacks on Iran as long as talks aimed at ending the conflict were making progress.

The Iranian army announced on Sunday night that an illegal oil tanker caught fire after colliding with a sea mine in the eastern Strait of Hormuz earlier.

The Iranian army said in a statement: “Before noon today, an illegal oil tanker that had turned off its identification systems and was traveling in a prohibited zone caught fire after colliding with a sea mine in the eastern Strait of Hormuz.”

The Public Relations Department of the Army Navy confirmed that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed to violating ships until any threat has passed.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stressed that the peoples of our region are “tired” of Israel’s deception as much as the American people are tired of it.

Araqchi said on the X platform, in response to the US President’s recent statements with CBS: “The US President clearly realized that the overwhelming majority of the American people strongly detest Israel. What is notable is that he does not seem to have yet realized the reason for this issue.”

He added: It is clear that the Americans are tired of Israel deceiving the American governments and pushing them towards endless wars. They have run out of patience. The same applies to our region.”

According to Fars Agency, Trump admitted in an interview with CBS that voters' "dissatisfaction" with the war with Iran, high gasoline prices, and "widespread opposition to Israel" were factors in the Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections.

Trump continued, saying: The countries that we defended must pay us the costs of the war with Iran, because without us they would not have had a foreign presence in the first place.

For his part, the official spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces, Brigadier General Abu Al-Fadl Shekarji, warned that “the decline in the effectiveness of the American military arsenal has led to the destabilization of the foundations of American influence.”