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Posted on 06/01/2026 8:00:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Iranian negotiators will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran’s state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim said.
Tehran will also move to fully block the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim reported.
Oil prices leapt more than 5% higher following Tasnim’s report.
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Iranian negotiators will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries, and Tehran will move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran’s state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim said Monday.
The report, in a translated post on the social media site Telegram, homed in on Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.
“No dialogue will take place” until Israel fully withdraws from occupied areas in Lebanon and stops all attacks in both Lebanon and Gaza, per Tasnim.
“Also, the resistance front and Iran have resolved to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts including the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, in order to punish the Zionists and their supporters,” the report said.
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a trade chokepoint that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
Oil prices leapt more than 5% higher following Tasnim’s report, which signaled a breakdown in efforts to reach a diplomatic end to the war that is now in its fourth month.
Rystad Energy: U.S.-Iran re-escalation could see oil at $180 by Augustwatch now VIDEO06:50 Rystad Energy: U.S.-Iran re-escalation could see oil at $180 by August President Donald Trump just three days earlier said he would decide at a meeting in the White House Situation Room whether to agree to a deal with Iran that would at least pause the conflict. But that meeting ended without Trump making a final decision.
In the following days, the U.S. and Iran launched new attacks against each other, further eroding the tattered ceasefire that has already been repeatedly ruptured by kinetic military operations.
At the same time, Israel has ramped up its military offensive in Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered attacks on Hezbollah-controlled suburbs in Beirut, Reuters reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an X post Monday morning said, “The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
“Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation,” Araghchi wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on Tasnim’s report. U.S. Central Command declined to comment.
Iran’s vow to escalate its clampdown on the Hormuz Strait indicates that oil exports from the Persian Gulf are unlikely to increase anytime soon.
Exports through the strait have plunged from prewar levels due to Iran’s blockade. About a fifth of the world’s oil supplies passed through Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran on Feb. 28.
Barrel prices for Brent and WTI crude oil, while still highly elevated from their pre-war levels, had retreated by double-digit percentages in recent weeks as investors grew optimistic about the prospect of a deal that would fully reopen the strait. But some of that optimism appears to have evaporated following Monday’s developments.
Ship traffic through the strait remains effectively choked off, as it has been since the start of the war, due to Iranian threats and a retaliatory U.S. blockade. While a trickle of vessels have been able to transit the waterway, traffic has remained far below prewar levels, when over 100 ships would pass through each day.
Iran’s efforts to exert control in the strait have raised concerns that Tehran could impose a tolling system on passing ships.
Trump, in a Truth Social post early Monday morning, insisted that Iran “really wants to make a deal,” while chastising U.S. critics who “keep negatively ‘chirping’” about his handling of the war.
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!” Trump wrote.
— CNBC’s Ryan Ruggiero and Spencer Kimball contributed to this report.
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well that’s good news as long as the president doesn’t start saying they want to make a deal
Iran is trying to punch abovve its weight, and will regret their desperation move.
Time to kill’em.
Trump managed to block the Iran’s oil while keeping oil below $90 just by giving the market hope. It’s not seen as a part of the war but it is and it has bought time to deal with Iran. Iran is playing the same game Trump is just playing better right now. If oil is at $70 Iran is in trouble and if Oil is $120 then the world is in trouble. Iran says things to drive the price up and Trump says things to drive the price down. The early talk was oil at $250 and that was actually their threat. It got nowhere near that in no small part because of the media Juggernaut known as President Donald J. Trump.
I’m really ready for the military to resume significant kinetic activities.
If IRGC remains in control of Iran - Trump plans to keep the Straights permanently blocked. He hasn’t spoken this publicly so as not to reveal his hand to Iran, Brussels and China, and to play the MSM (which he loves to do), but IMHO, it all makes sense.
Iran (and its proxies) get zero oil revenue. They are put on a starvation diet
Friendly GCC states like UAE, Saudi can export enough to survive via pipelines elsewhere. UAE, for example, is now hurrying to build a larger pipeline through Oman to the Arabian Sea.
The US will suffer somewhat from higher oil prices, but it really hurts Trump’s enemies in Brussels. China is also constrained. It’s also a great benefit to US LNG exporters.
The world already sees the Persian Gulf with an IRGC Iran will never be a stable place. They will pivot away from it, making it strategically less important as time goes on.
I’m not privy to the details, but I guess it is all about
the enriched uranium.
They really, really want the bomb.
Tehran and its metropolitan area house approximately 18% to 19% of Iran’s total population. The city is also the country’s primary economic engine, handling a massive portion of its internal commerce—accounting for about 30% of Iran’s public-sector employment and 45% of its large industrial firms. Boom-a-la, boom-a-la.
I don’t play 3D chess. I just want to know...
Why do we continue to let these raging barbarians dictate the terms of ANY ceasefire and change the rules when they see fit?
C’mon, Mr President. Kill them. All of them. The world will be a better place for the effort.
We have so wanted to keep their main military force intact to prevent total break down. But it is at a point that may be the only solution.
Unless the military has devised an effective anti drone defense, then the Iranians will be able to keep the Strait closed. Swarms of guided $30,000 drones cannot over time be stopped by $1 million dollar missles and A-10s and Apache helicopters. Since such a defense does not exist, the only real solution is regime change. That would involve ground fighting, a logistical nightmare and casualties.
And the Caliphate is dying to use it.
Ordering the release of 170,000,000 barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve as well as other nations tapping into their reserves has provided some relief.
Iran is a client state.
If the decision to end negotiations has in fact been made, I doubt Iran made it on its own.
The Mullahs and the IRGC are religious fanatics. That is not only first and foremost in their dealings, it is THE ONLY THING.
They view everything that happens in their world as a religious matter. There is no such thing as a ‘secular government.’
They want nuclear weapons, not for protection or for defense, but for religious reasons.
Their world view is centered around a stupid prophecy from the 7th century. They believe that they are the sole instigators of the return of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, that will rise up out of a well and bring Islam to all nations on Earth and destroy all infidels.
The destruction of Israel is their goal. Western powers are infidels and will be destroyed by their Mahdi.
You cannot deal or negotiate with people like this. Their minds are frozen in the 7th century and they will not compromise. They will lie, cheat and obfuscate as much as is necessary to achieve their goals, and their Quran tells them to do it. They can rape, murder, pillage and enslave any infidel at any time. They have no mercy and no conscience. This is the same situation the Crusaders faced a thousand years ago.
This is why Trump must not and cannot allow them to have any nuclear weapons capability at all.
The rest of the nuclear powers have nuclear weapons so that they don’t have to use them.
Iran wants them so that they can use them..............
The IRGC is squealing about Hezbollah getting attacked, but completely left out the fact that Hezbollah continues to attack Israel via rockets and drones during the “cease fire” and is exactly why Israel began attacking them again.
Drop the bridges.
Bomb the electricity turbines.
Send them back to the Stone Age.
It’s the only way to be sure.
“They really, really want the bomb.”
Of course they do. With it they would become the designate bully of the entire Mideast and they’s have the power to back it up. Their dominance would be enshrined for the forseable future.
They would end up controlling a large % of the entire worlds energy supplies.
Scary.
Didn’t see THIS coming.
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