Iran indicates it's received an official US response to its latest offer on ending the war

Iranian officials indicated Wednesday they have received an official U.S. response to Tehran's latest proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S. President Donald Trump had publicly rejected just days earlier. The officials did not say what the response contained and whether it was a rejection.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the U.S. response to President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told the state-run IRNA news agency.“We will make every effort to bring the agreement to fruition and will firmly stand up for the rights of the Iranian people,” Pezeshkian said. “The agreement must now be based on a win-win strategy.”The Cabinet meeting followed Araghchi's return to Iran after traveling to New York for last week's U.N. General Assembly, where officials held indirect talks with U.S. officials and also met with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders.Araghchi and his delegation were ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to leave New York earlier than planned, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity to disc...