Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected holding negotiations with the United States over a nuclear deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump's letter to Iran's clerical establishment "will soon be delivered to Tehran by an Arab country," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in televised remarks on Wednesday.

The US president says he has proposed talks on a deal to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and to avert military action.

A new report by the U.N. accuses Israel of the increasing use of sexual violence against Palestinians and genocidal acts through the deliberate destruction of their sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quickly condemned the report’s findings as baseless.

United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip