Source: New York Post
Iran has shut down its communications with the US through mediators in protest of Israel’s Monday strikes on Beirut, disrupting weeks of attempts to find a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart formal peace talks. “In light of the ongoing crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon and given that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire preconditions, and now this ceasefire has been violated on all fronts, including Lebanon, the Iranian negotiating team is suspending ‘discussions and exchanges of texts through intermediaries,'” the government-linked Tasnim News Agency wrote on X Monday. 3 An Israeli fighter jet flies over southern Lebanon as seen from the upper Galilee on the Israel-Lebanon border on June 1, 2026.
