Iran is accusing the United States of violating the ceasefire between the two countries and will move to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s state-affiliated outlet Tasnim News Agency reported Monday that Iran will also stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries, per The Hill.
The news agency translated a post on the messaging app Telegram. The report pointed to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iranian militia Hezbollah as a violation of the ceasefire with the U.S.
The report said an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon is a precondition for the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and that the ceasefire “has now been violated on all fronts.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire with the U.S. and that any violation on one front “shall be considered a violation of it across all fronts.
“The United States and Israel bear responsibility for the consequences of any breach of the truce,” it said.
Israel announced Sunday it had captured Lebanon’s Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old fortress located north of the Litani River.
The fortress has strategic military value and stands as a symbol of Israel’s occupation of the south of the country between 1982 and 2000.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods in southern Beirut.
The U.S. and Iran exchanged fire over the weekend. U.S. Central Command said it struck Iranian air defenses, two drones that were threatening ships and a ground control station in response to “aggressive Iranian actions.”
Early Monday morning,
Trump posted Truth Social that Iran “really wants to make a deal.”
He also accused critics of jeopardizing an agreement.
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!” he wrote.
Monday’s news comes as Trump considered a preliminary deal to end the war.
Axios reported Trump added amendments to the deal and transmitted it back to Iranian negotiators.
Trump announced in a Truth Social post Friday he was ending the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and that ships “caught in the Strait … may start the process of ‘heading home!’”
