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threat to Israel is eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt its attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing from Lebanon, which Iran says is also a condition of the deal. ### The fighting in the south, near
threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process,” he said. ## US says signing close Trump on Saturday
Trump added he did not like that Israel had attacked Beirut only two hours before Iran was due to sign the [memorandum](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/analysis-us-iran-peace-deal-shipping-sanctions-relief-nuclear-talks-ballistic-missiles). On Tuesday, Israeli drone attacks killed at least four people
threats posed by Iranian forces,” a Centcom spokesperson said. The statement gave no details of the attacks and said only that the targets included missile launch sites and boats trying to “emplace mines”. The strikes
Trump’s indefinite shelving of the plan to bomb Iran’s bridges and power station on Tuesday night is being widely described as leaving the conflict in limbo, but that is anything but the truth
Trump unilaterally walked out of the deal in 2018, during his first term as US president. Billions of dollars of Iranian assets remain frozen in foreign banks due to the ongoing sanctions. The US proposal
Trump and others have pushed the notion that military, security and political authorities in Tehran are divided. “The time has come for Iran to make the sensible choice,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told
Hormuz. Trump always complained that the JCPOA treated Iran’s nuclear programme in isolation, and did not address Iran’s wider behaviour. Can he defer these wider issues or does he want them included
Hormuz, which normally carries about one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and natural gas, remains at a standstill as Iran continues to demand the right to decide which vessels may pass
threat to restart attacks on nearby countries’ oil and other infrastructure in the Gulf are the two main cards Iran can play in negotiations. The US has blockaded Iran, stopping all Iran-linked shipping seeking
Hormuz strait**, it announced on social media. The US naval blockade of the strait had been in effect since 13 April, with control of the waterway being a key point of conflict
Trump accepted Iran’s offer of a deal to reopen the strait of Hormuz, he could conceivably declare victory by pointing to the damage that the US and Israeli bombing had inflicted on Iran
threat to wrest Greenland from Denmark. “All of these illustrate a growing divergence between Westminster and Washington,” Robertson said at a seminar at the Chatham House thinktank. He said the diplomatic tone from the White
threat, and forced concession-taking,” he wrote on X. Iran’s demands, he said, represented “not maximum demands” but “the minimum requirements for any serious, sustainable arrangement”. Regional powers are also intensifying their diplomatic efforts
threats came as uncertainty surrounding the fragile US-Iran ceasefire grows, days after the president [called off the latest round of talks](/news/liveblog/2026/4/26/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-talks-under-siege-trump-cancels-envoys-trip) with Tehran. Although Washington said it was reviewing Tehran’s proposal
threat of striking “bridges and power plants”, which [experts said](https://www.justsecurity.org/135423/professors-letter-international-law-iran-war/) could amount to war crimes under international law. Iran, however, has so far denied it will participate in the talks, accusing
Iran deemed safe, adding that military vessels were still prohibited, the official said. “We are currently verifying the recent announcement related to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, in terms of its compliance with
Strait of Hormuz Wednesday morning**, hours after President Trump announced that he is extending the ceasefire with Iran. The attacks put the possibility of [peace talks in jeopardy](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5795405/iran-middle-east-updates). Trump extended the ceasefire
Trump](/news/2026/5/4/trumps-project-freedom-can-us-navy-guide-stuck-ships-out-of-hormuz) will make the decision as to when the truce ends, signalling that Washington may be willing to tolerate some Iranian attacks during the push to reopen Hormuz before renewing the war. The defence
Hormuz The vital waterway is Iran’s most significant strategic asset, the narrow passage ships one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies in peacetime. Tehran has effectively closed