Middle East

‘The conversations between us have been going on continuously,’ including on Tuesday, the president said.

The head of the shadowy Quds Force said Iran would move to block the Bab al‑Mandab Strait that links the Red Sea to the wider ocean.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington and Tehran are close to a deal, but he warned that progress is slowed by fractures in Iran’s leadership.

A report from Iran’s official state media suggests that the negotiations remain intact but that their fate depends on Israeli military actions in Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been unable to push through a bill exempting them from conscription.

The president says that ‘talks are continuing, at a rapid pace,’ with Iran despite a report from an Iranian semi-official news outlet saying talks had halted.

A UK maritime monitoring agency added that a large explosion was reported.

The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran.

Tehran warns it could suspend negotiations with Washington if attacks continue, but Trump says diplomacy remains on track.

Iran stated that it had struck an American airbase on June 1 but didn’t specify which base it had targeted.

The Israeli leader said the attacks are in response to repeated ceasefire violations as IDF troops expand their ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

The president gave an update on negotiations between Washington and Tehran in a weekend interview.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill said out-of-state protesters are creating problems at an ICE detention facility.

The attack marked the fifth instance of U.S. forces utilizing disabling fire on a commercial vessel since the start of the Iran blockade.

Military action remains an option as Tehran and Washington continue talks over ending the war, the Pentagon chief said.

U.S. naval command said vessels involved in mine-laying could be targeted and that the blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect.

Ali Majd Sepehr allegedly defrauded dozens of U.S. IT vendors of millions of dollars’ worth of restricted goods.

Andrew Bailey warned that attempting to bring inflation back to the bank’s 2 percent target ’too quickly‘ could ’cause undesirable volatility in output.’

Under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreed last October, the IDF was meant to withdraw to a Yellow Line demarcating the extent of their control.

The president has concluded a 2-hour meeting in the Situation Room to weigh the Iran deal.