Iran is stopping message exchanges with U.S., may block Hormuz, Iranian news agency says

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. File

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Iran’s Tasnim news bureau said connected Monday (June 1, 2026) that Tehran’s negotiating ​team is stopping exchanges of messages with the United ‌States done mediators owed to attacks connected Lebanon, ​as diplomatic efforts to extremity the three-month-old ⁠Iran warfare continue.

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The bureau said Iran and the Resistance Front, which includes its Shiite allies successful Yemen, Lebanon ‌and Iraq, person acceptable an docket to wholly artifact the Strait of Hormuz ‌and activate different fronts, including the Bab El ‌Mandeb ⁠Strait, successful bid to “punish” Israel and its ⁠supporters.

If the Houthis, Iran’s allies successful Yemen, unfastened a caller beforehand successful the conflict, 1 evident people would beryllium ​the Bab El Mandeb ‌Strait disconnected the seashore of Yemen, a cardinal shipping chokepoint and constrictive passageway that controls oversea postulation towards the Suez Canal.

“Violation connected 1 ‌front is simply a usurpation of the ceasefire ​on each fronts. The U.S. and Israel are liable for the consequences of immoderate ⁠violation,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said connected X connected Monday (June 1, 2026), referring to Israeli operations successful Lebanon.

The warfare ‌launched by the U.S. and Israel connected February 28 has killed thousands of people, chiefly successful Iran and Lebanon. It has besides caused planetary economical symptom by pushing up vigor prices since Iran efficaciously closed the Strait of Hormuz, ‌a captious planetary proviso way for lipid and liquefied earthy ​gas.

“The contiguous cessation of the Zionist regime’s assertive and brutal service operations successful ⁠Gaza and Lebanon and the necessity of the regime’s implicit ⁠withdrawal from the occupied areas successful Lebanon person been emphasized by Iranian officials ‌and negotiators, and determination volition beryllium nary talks until Iran and the resistance’s views connected this ​matter are met,” Tasnim added.

Published - June 01, 2026 07:58 p.m. IST

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