Israel has kept bombing Gaza and Lebanon. Washington has kept supplying the bombs. On June 1, Iran said: no more indirect talks until the killing stops.
Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi put it plainly: the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. covers all fronts, including Lebanon. A violation on one front is a violation on all fronts. The U.S. and Israel are responsible for the consequences.
The U.S. is trying to separate the fronts — talks with Iran here, Israeli bombing in Lebanon and Gaza there. Iran’s answer is that these are not separate fronts, and one ceasefire has to cover them all.
Iran’s negotiating team stopped message exchanges with U.S. counterparts through mediators. Iran’s Tasnim news agency, citing Iranian officials, reported the decision followed Israel’s continued strikes on Lebanon — attacks that violated a precondition Iran had set when the ceasefire was agreed.
Tehran’s demands are concrete: an immediate halt to Israeli operations in both Gaza and Lebanon, and full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence arm stated June 1 that crossing red lines in Lebanon and Gaza constitutes a direct confrontation with Iran. Tehran said it is prepared to act — including closing the Strait of Hormuz and cutting off Israel and its backers from global shipping lanes through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
Iran and the Resistance Front have put the full closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the opening of a Bab el-Mandeb front on the agenda — moves that would raise the cost of the war for Israel and its backers at two of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints.
Palestinian resistance factions welcomed the move. In a statement issued June 1, they called Iran’s position a continuation of its “authentic positions” toward the Palestinian people and called for international mobilization in support of Palestinian and Lebanese peoples facing genocide and U.S.-backed Israeli aggression.
Washington wants talks that leave the U.S. free to arm, fund and supply Israel’s bombing of Gaza and Lebanon. Iran is not walking away from diplomacy. It is refusing to let Washington bargain over one front while Israel keeps attacking another.
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