Talks with Iran continuing at rapid pace: Trump

Tasnim News says Iran halted mediated talks with US over Lebanon attacks and Israel-Hezbollah conflict

United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that talks with Iran were continuing at a "rapid pace".

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His comment about continued dialogue with Iran came shortly after it was reported that he had not heard from the Iranians that they were suspending talks with Washington, but added that silence would be fine and he was willing to wait.

"I think we've been talking too much if you want to know the truth. I think going silent would be very good, and that could be for a long time," Trump said in an interview with NBC News.

"It doesn't mean we're going to go and start dropping bombs all over there," Trump was quoted as saying. "We'll just go silent. We'll keep the blockade."

"I think I can wait as long as they want. They're losing a fortune."

The Iranian state news agency Tasnim reported earlier that Iran was halting indirect negotiations with the US after Israel ordered its troops to push deeper into Lebanon, complicating diplomatic efforts to end three months of war.

Trump said the Iranians were better negotiators than fighters, but that he had not been informed that they were suspending talks.

Tasnim said the Islamic Republic's negotiating team was stopping exchanging messages with Washington through mediators over attacks on Lebanon, where the US-Israeli war against Iran has reignited Israel's conflict with Hezbollah.

The move reported by Tasnim poses a further obstacle ​to hopes of a swift end to the crisis, after Iran said it had attacked a US air base following weekend US strikes on Iranian military targets that put further strain ​on a fragile ceasefire.

Oil prices rose more than $6 a barrel after the Tasnim report.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut ⁠on Monday, prompting another wave of displacement in a conflict that has already uprooted more than a million people in Lebanon.

Netanyahu's office accused Hezbollah of repeated violations of a ceasefire agreed in late April.

Trump had earlier reiterated on social media that he believed Tehran wants to reach a deal. But hopes of a breakthrough were tempered by comments by Iranian officials criticising the "constantly changing" US negotiating stance.

Iranian Foreign ​Minister Abbas Araghchi also raised Lebanon, where another ceasefire is in place, as a stumbling block.

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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.

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 1, 2026

"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," he said on X.

Fraying ceasefires

The war launched by the US and Israel on February 28 has killed thousands of people, mainly in Iran and Lebanon. It has also caused global economic pain by pushing up energy prices since Iran effectively ​closed the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global supply route for oil and liquefied natural gas.

Tasnim said Iran and the Resistance Front, which includes its Shi'ite allies in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, had set ​an agenda to completely block the strait and activate other fronts, including the Bab El Mandeb Strait, to "punish" Israel and its supporters.

If the Houthis, Iran's allies in Yemen, open a new front in the conflict, one obvious target ‌would be ⁠the Bab El Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen, a shipping chokepoint and narrow passageway that controls sea traffic towards the Suez Canal.

Referring to Iran's demands on Lebanon, Tasnim said: "There will be no talks until Iran and the resistance's views on this matter are met."

Iran and the US have sporadically traded blows despite their ceasefire, while Pakistan has been trying to mediate a durable peace agreement.

The US military said it had, over the weekend, struck Iranian air defences, a ground control station and two drones that were threatening ships after "aggressive Iranian actions", including shooting down a US drone over international waters.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ​said on Monday it had targeted an air base ​used by the US in response to ⁠an attack on southern Iran.

It did not identify the base, but Kuwait activated air defences on Monday and denounced Iranian missile and drone attacks, which it said were undermining efforts to reduce tensions in the region.

US forces intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait late on Sunday, the US military ​said on Monday, adding that no American personnel were harmed.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with both Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and ​Netanyahu on the diplomatic negotiations ⁠between Israel and Lebanon and has proposed a plan to allow for "gradual de-escalation", a US official said on Sunday.

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Trump is under pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and get US gasoline prices down before November congressional elections, as voters show increasing frustration over rising prices. At the same time, he faces a potential backlash from Iran hawks in his own party over any concessions to Tehran.

Trump has said his main aim in the war ⁠is to ​prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon with its highly enriched uranium. Tehran denies planning to develop a nuclear arsenal.

The sides ​are also at odds on other issues, such as Tehran's demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue frozen in foreign banks.

Iran also wants the US to lift a blockade of its ​ports, imposed after Tehran effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the war.