The nonbinding congressional resolution was introduced first in the House after the U.S. launched an airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

"Iran will never negotiate under pressure ... We will never yield to America's pressure and we will not negotiate from a position of weakness," Rouhani said in a televised news conference.

The Democratic-led House voted nearly along party lines to pass one measure that would prohibit military action against Iran without congressional approval.

The chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned of retaliation against American and Israeli commanders if the U.S. continues to threaten top Iranian generals.

Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country's foreign minister said in an interview released Saturday.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy placed blame squarely on Iran Tuesday for escalating tensions in the Middle East.

"You can see the Iranian people are standing up and asserting their rights, their aspirations for a better government -- a different regime," Esper told CBS' "Face the Nation."

Macron told Zelenskiy in a telephone call that France had started a formal procedure to launch an international investigation into the crash, Zelenskiy's office said in a statement, adding that Macron had agreed to visit Kiev.

The officials said a military airstrike targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking commander in Iran’s Islamic Republican Guard Corps but the mission was not successful.

The landmark 2015 deal has been teetering on the edge of collapse since the United States pulled out unilaterally in 2018.