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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-29T11:43:34.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIran's parliament speaker on Sunday accused the United States of plotting a ground attack despite talking about diplomacy, after a U.S. warship with around 3,500 military personnel arrived in the Middle East.\n\nMohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's comments come after more than a month of aerial bombardment of Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces and ahead of talks between key regional players on Monday.\n\nThe war has escalated into a regional conflagration as Iran has retaliated with attacks on Gulf states, sending energy markets into a tailspin and threatening the world economy.\n\n\"The enemy publicly sends messages of negotiation and dialogue while secretly planning a ground attack,\" Ghalibaf said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.\n\n\"Our men are waiting for the arrival of the American soldiers on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional allies once and for all,\" he added.\n\nThe USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship carrying around 3,500 Marines and sailors, arrived in the Middle East on Friday.\n\nThe Washington Post reported the Pentagon was preparing plans for weeks of ground operations -- potentially including raids on Kharg Island and sites near the Strait of Hormuz -- though U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to approve any deployment.\n\nIran says it has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane which accounted for a quarter of the world's seaborne oil trade, to hostile shipping.\n\nTrump has repeatedly spoken of diplomatic contacts with Iran, although these claims has been denied by Tehran.\n\nTrump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has said a U.S.-Iran meeting could take place soon, and promoted a 15-point plan that Washington says \"could solve it all\".\n\nPakistan, acting as a go-between for Washington and Tehran, will host foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt in Islamabad on Monday for talks on the crisis.\n\n### 'All of Tehran was shaking'\n\nIn Tehran, two blasts shook the city early Sunday, an AFP journalist said, although it was not clear what was targeted.\n\nThe Qatari news channel Al Araby said an Israeli missile hit the building housing its office in the city.\n\nFootage from inside the office showed broken windows and shattered glass. Outside, images showed the streets covered in debris and damage to surrounding buildings.\n\n\"I miss a peaceful night's sleep,\" an artist in Tehran told AFP, saying night-time strikes were \"so intense it felt like all of Tehran was shaking\".\n\nFarzaneh, a 62-year-old woman in Iran's western city of Ahvaz contacted by AFP from Paris, said: \"People wake up each day worried about an uncertain future.\"\n\n\"War in today's world and even in the future is not something that can be considered a real solution to problems. No one truly desires war,\" she said.",
  "title": "Iran parliament speaker says US planning ground attack"
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