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Iran has suspended all exchanges with the US via mediators on Monday, IRGC-affiliated news agency Tasnim reported, as the two sides remained apart on a deal to extend the ceasefire and end the war.
The decision was made over what the news agency said were “continuing crimes” of Israel in Lebanon.
“Considering that Lebanon was one of the preconditions for the ceasefire and that this ceasefire has now been violated on all fronts, including Lebanon, the Iranian negotiating team is suspending dialogues and exchange of texts through mediators,” Tasnim reported.
“Furthermore, Iran and the Axis of Resistance have resolved to pursue the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as part of efforts to punish Israel and its supporters,” Tasnim said in a separate post on X.
Tehran has also demanded a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, according to the news agency.
US President Donald Trump reacted to the news by telling NBC he was unaware of the decision before it was made public.
“It’s an appropriate thing to say, because they’re better negotiators than they are fighters,” he said. “But they haven’t informed us of that.”
“It doesn’t mean we’re going to go and start dropping bombs all over there,” Trump added. “We’ll keep the blockade.”
It is unclear if the pause on mediated exchanges has also temporarily closed the door to all talks, or if some channels of communication remain open at this stage.
With this move, the Islamic Republic has further escalated its maximalist demands for a peace deal with the US, while also expanding its tactical front by dictating fresh terms for any agreement and projecting the posture of a party that believes it holds the upper hand in the conflict.
Tehran is also now holding Washington directly responsible for Israeli military conduct — effectively demanding that the US uses its influence over Israel as a precondition for resumption of mediated talks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier on Monday that a violation on one front of the ceasefire is a violation “on all fronts” and that the US-Iran ceasefire 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 on X.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and lead negotiator, has also accused the US of breaching the ceasefire by continuing its military blockade of the Iranian ports and of not stopping the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah is the most powerful component of what Iran calls the Axis of Resistance — a network of armed groups across the Middle East, including Hamas in Gaza, Houthis in Yemen and Shia militias in Iraq — that Tehran finances, arms and directs.
The network was built over decades by the IRGC’s Quds Force and functions as Iran’s primary instrument of regional influence.
Israel has been involved in a military intervention against Hezbollah since the early days of the Iran war, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hezbollah launched a series of missile attacks against Israel in response to his killing, triggering the ongoing conflict.
A ceasefire in the Iran war took effect on 8 April, with Pakistan serving as the primary mediator between Washington and Tehran.
A US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect on 16 April, but Iran has consistently maintained that the broader Iran-US ceasefire covers Lebanon as well, and that Israeli operations there constitute a violation of its terms.
Iran’s announcement comes just days after Trump brought on tougher terms for the deal between the two sides, which likely sparked the Tehran regime’s decision on Monday, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank (ISW).
The US president “requested several amendments to the draft US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU), particularly related to Iran’s highly enriched uranium and the Strait of Hormuz,” the ISW said in its analysis on Monday, citing a source with knowledge of the negotiations who told CBS News that Trump’s revisions involved “somewhat significant changes.”
Talks between Iran and the US have so far focused on the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely closed to international shipping since the war began, Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles, sanctions relief and the terms of a lasting settlement.
The two sides had been working toward a 60-day memorandum of understanding that would extend the ceasefire and open nuclear talks.
Draft terms reported by US sources included unrestricted Hormuz shipping, Iran removing mines from the strait within 30 days, proportional lifting of the US naval blockade, and sanctions waivers allowing Iran to sell oil.
The deal was awaiting final approval from both Trump and the new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Ali Khamenei who is yet to appear in public since his appointment.
Trump expressed optimism about the talks in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday.
“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us,” he wrote. “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — it always does.”
Trump however said last week that Iran had to make a deal happen or “we’ll have to finish the job,” after the White House dismissed an Iranian state-run television report of a draft agreement as a “complete fabrication”. The US president has previously described the ceasefire as having a “one percent chance” of surviving.
The truce has been repeatedly tested by military incidents. US CENTCOM and the IRGC have shared conflicting accounts of multiple exchanges of fire in the Persian Gulf, including strikes near Bandar Abbas and competing claims over drones, tankers and Iran’s targeting of US bases in the wider region.
Iran’s newly established Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which had been charging vessels $2 million per passage, was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department last week.
Hardliner IRGC Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a high-ranked politician and the elite paramilitary’s former commander-in-chief, insisted on Monday Tehran remained firmly in control of the strait and its future.
“The Strait of Hormuz is under Iran’s control. We will not allow the naval blockade to continue, nor will we tolerate further escalation in Lebanon,” he said in a post on X on Monday evening. “The patience of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has its limits.”
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