Tehran [Iran], June 2 (ANI): Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has communicated to his Lebanese counterpart, Nabih Berri, that any prospective accord aimed at concluding the conflict between Iran and the United States 'will include the cessation of attacks on all fronts, especially Lebanon'.
Trump says Iran deal could be reached ‘over the next week’ US President Donald Trump said he believes the United States could reach an agreement with Iran to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz “over the next week”. Speaking to ABC News, Trump said negotiations were “looking good” and suggested recent tensions linked to fighting in Lebanon had been addressed. Trump said he has not yet approved a memorandum of understanding on reopening the strait because “I still have to get a few more points”.
Tehran has warned it could resume direct confrontation if Israel continues its campaign in Lebanon US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's escalation in Lebanon, Axios reported on Monday, citing two US officials and a third source briefed on the call.
By suspending talks with Washington over Israel's campaign in Lebanon, Tehran has raised the stakes of postwar diplomacy and posed a critical question: is it successfully increasing its leverage, or overplaying its hand?
Washington, DC [US], June 2 (ANI): US President Donald Trump indicated his optimism regarding a breakthrough in the Middle East, noting that he anticipates securing an agreement with Tehran to prolong the truce and restore transit through the strategic maritime chokepoint 'over the next week'.
President Trump told CNBC that he “couldn’t care less” if the negotiations with Iran break down.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir says ‘time to say no to Trump’ Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticised US President Donald Trump’s announcement that planned Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs had been halted. “The time has come to do what duty requires and what is required is to strike Hezbollah, unleash our fighters, and restore security to the north,” Ben-Gvir wrote on X. Addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he added: “You said that a strong prime minister tells the president of the United States ‘yes’ when possible, and ‘no’ when necessary.
Trump says Iran talks moving ahead ‘at a rapid pace’ US President Donald Trump says negotiations with Iran are continuing at a “rapid pace”, despite reports that Tehran may be suspending contacts with Washington. The comments, made on social media, appeared to contradict an earlier report by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, which said Tehran had halted message exchanges with the US over Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanon. There has been no official confirmation from Iranian authorities that talks have been suspended.
Washington, DC [US], June 2 (ANI): Despite discussions to conclude the Middle East conflict appearing severely strained, US President Donald Trump stated that diplomatic engagements with Iran were progressing at a 'rapid pace', even as Tehran's Revolutionary Guards issued warnings regarding the potential emergence of new fronts.
Iran’s conservative establishment appears to be pushing back against its own ultra-radical fringe after a hardline lawmaker accused President Masoud Pezeshkian of bypassing the Supreme Leader over the April ceasefire with the United States.
The US president’s war of choice has accomplished nothing and cost the world greatly Donald Trump claims to have mastered the Art of the Deal , but he has just given us a master class in negotiating incompetence. I would love to see an Iranian government that no longer represses its people, menaces its neighbors, or can build a nuclear weapon. Trump has set back all of these efforts.
Trump says Iran has not informed US of any suspension in talks US President Donald Trump says Iran has not notified Washington that it is suspending negotiations, but indicated he was prepared to wait if communications had stopped. “They haven’t informed us of that,” Trump told NBC. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to go and start dropping bombs all over there…We’ll keep the blockade.
As Israel threatens to bomb Beirut and the US and Iran trade missile strikes, Donald Trump insists it will ‘all work out well in the end’ and urges his critics to ‘sit back and relax’. So are we any closer to a deal? Lucy Hough speaks to diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour.
Qatar and Switzerland discuss backing Iran-US mediation efforts Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has held talks with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis on mediation efforts between Tehran and Washington. According to a readout from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two officials discussed Islamabad-led mediation initiatives and ways of “coordinating efforts to back mediation aimed at de-escalation”.
The US President has pitched setting up an Anti-Weaponization Fund for those allegedly targeted by the American federal government Democrat-led US states are considering imposing a 100% tax on payouts by a $1. 8 billion fund set up by US President Donald Trump for victims of attempts to weaponize the legal and political system against them.
The President has pitched an Anti-Weaponization Fund for those allegedly previously targeted by the federal government Democrat-led US states are considering imposing a 100% tax on payouts by a $1. 8 billion fund set up by US President Donald Trump for victims of attempts to weaponize the legal and political system against them.
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Tehran has also reportedly ordered the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon Iran has halted negotiations with the US over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon, moving to block maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim news agency has reported, citing sources.
Tehran has also reportedly ordered the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon Iran has halted negotiations with the US over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon, moving to block maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim news agency has reported, citing sources.
