Trump says Iran talks still on, attacks in Lebanon to halt

Josh Wingrove, Veena Ali-Khan and Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg News on Jun 1, 2026

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to stop attacking each other in Lebanon and that talks with Iran were continuing after fresh violence threatened negotiations to end the Middle East conflict.

Trump said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives from Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group, in separate phone calls.

“There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back,” Trump said Monday in a social media post. “I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

There was no immediate public acknowledgment of the alleged truce from Israel nor Hezbollah.

Brent traded near $95 a barrel, easing from gains that had taken prices above $97.

The escalating violence in Lebanon in recent days risked upending indirect talks between Washington and Tehran on extending a ceasefire agreement. Earlier Monday, Iran said it would suspend negotiations with the United States in protest over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon.

Trump, in a subsequent post, said “talks are continuing, at a rapid pace,” with Iran.

Negotiators will suspend “talks and the exchange of documents through mediators,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Monday, citing a statement it didn’t attribute to any official or institution. Iran threatened a complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial conduit for oil and liquefied natural gas, according to the report.

Trump earlier said he hadn’t heard from Iran regarding reports that it’s suspending talks, an NBC reporter said according to social media posts.

Washington and Tehran have been trading messages on a draft deal — which would likely see the two sides extend their ceasefire by around two months, with Iran reopening the strait and the U.S. lifting a blockade of Iranian ports.

Trump is under increasing pressure to end a war that’s sent energy prices surging and is unpopular with most Americans. Yet he needs to balance that with the likely criticism if Washington unfreezes billions of dollars of Iranian funds, as Tehran is demanding.

“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end,” Trump said late Sunday U.S. time, according to a social media post.

The Strait of Hormuz also has seen renewed clashes. The U.S. struck Iranian radar and command-and-control sites over the weekend, with the military saying it was a “measured” response to “aggressive Iranian actions” including the shootdown of a drone over international waters.

U.S. forces successfully intercepted two Iranian ballistic missile targeting American forces based in Kuwait, Central Command said Monday. Three ballistic missiles in total targeted the Ali Al-Salem airbase, a person familiar with the strikes said, asking not to be identified by name because details aren’t public. Kuwait intercepted the third missile.

Iran has insisted any agreement with Washington must apply to fighting across the region, including in Lebanon where Tehran-backed Hezbollah and Israel are engaged in a parallel war. Israel, which is not party to the talks between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic, deepened its invasion of Lebanon over the weekend, while Hezbollah stepped up attacks on Israel’s north.

Iran warned it may target northern Israel if Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency reported, citing Iran’s Central Military Command.

Tehran and the “Axis of Resistance” — a reference to a network of Iran-backed groups in the region — have placed Hormuz on their agenda, but also the Bab el Mandeb Strait, the Tasnim report said.

Here’s more on the Iran war:

—Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi discussed regional developments and issues related to the ceasefire process in a phone call with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a Telegram post.

—Israeli airstrikes in response to renewed attacks by Hezbollah in March have devastated swaths of southern Lebanon and the capital, Beirut, and killed at least 3,433 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

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(With assistance from Carla Canivete and Courtney Subramanian.)