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Key developments
• State of war: Israel has halted attacks on Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, stopping short of acknowledging a ceasefire that US President Donald Trump said the countries were aiming for.
• Tehran’s warning: Iran has also suspended its operations against Israel but warned it would resume them if Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon continue. Separately, a top Iranian official told CNN that Tehran has “no problem” pushing forward with peace talks, so long as Iran is confident that the US side is being honest and sincere.
• Conditions ease up: Iran’s airspace has returned to “normal conditions,” and flight operations are expected to resume, the country’s Civil Aviation Organization said, according to Iranian state media. Israel said it will lift restrictions on schools and workplaces on Tuesday at 6 a.m. local time.
Trump says US will "declare total victory" over Iran in next two weeks
President Donald Trump suggested that the United States would be declaring “total victory” over Iran in the next two weeks in a tele-rally for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is on the primary ballot Tuesday.
“We’re negotiating now, and they want to make a very good deal. They’re willing to give us everything, they’re willing to give us no nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
“I think we are winning that battle, but you’re really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory, it’ll be a total victory, it’ll happen very soon, and oil prices will come tumbling down,” Trump said.
It’s not the first time he’s made promises about significant progress in “two weeks.” The ceasefire with Iran, announced on April 7, was initially supposed to last two weeks while the two sides finished a deal to end the war.
Asked on Meet the Press why Iran hasn’t agreed to a deal if they are desperate to make one, as he has said repeatedly, the president said, “Because they’re strong. They’re proud. There are things they never thought they’d be doing that they’re going to have to do. They’ve got no choice. And it takes a little while.”
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Iran and Israel halt strikes against each other. Here's what to know
Israel was preparing for a significant attack in Tehran on Monday when US President Donald Trump convinced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off, according to an Israeli source and a US official familiar with the matter.
Here’s what to know about what is happening in the region:
- Shortly after the call between Trump and Netanyahu, the Israeli leader announced his country had accepted the US administration’s request to halt strikes on Iran, but said attacks in Lebanon will continue.
- It was Trump’s second phone call to Netanyahu in a matter of hours. Trump told Axios that he warned the Israeli prime minister that he would isolate himself if he continued to strike Iran.
- Meantime, there has been strikes in southern Lebanon. Five people were killed and eight wounded by an Israeli strike in Tyre, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. It occurred after Tehran warned it would resume its suspended operations against Israel if its strikes continued in southern Lebanon.
- US forces fired interceptors trying to shoot down Iranian missiles headed toward Israel in recent days, according to a US official. American officials are still working to assess “who hit what” in the aftermath of the attack, the official said.
- Iran pledged to maintain control over the critical Strait of Hormuz while criticizing fresh European Union sanctions.
- Top Iranian negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran will “defeat” the US naval blockade of its ports, as reported by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency. Trump said the blockade would remain until a peace agreement is reached.
- Iranian official Ebrahim Azizi said Tehran has “no problem” pushing forward with peace talks with the US, but any potential agreement hinges on the US changing its behavior amid a climate of deep mistrust.
- The US government is tracking at least six Americans detained in Iran, a US official said, including two who have been designated as wrongfully detained.
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen, Jennifer Hansler, Billy Stockwell, Aida Karimi, Kevin Liptak, Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Zachary Cohen, Oren Liebermann, Caitlin Danaher, Eyad Kourdi and Kit Maher contributed reporting to this post.
Trump warned Netanyahu further strikes could isolate him in conflict with Iran
President Donald Trump told Axios Monday that he warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israeli prime minister would isolate himself if he continued to strike Iran.
“I said, ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,’” Trump told Axios reporter and CNN contributor Barak Ravid.
Trump said that Israel gave the United States “very late notice” about strikes on Iran on Sunday, which have now stopped. At the same time, Netanyahu signaled strikes could resume.
As Trump continues to work to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, he said that five regional countries urged him to intervene with Netanyahu after the recent strikes.
“These countries were very concerned. They love the deal that we have been negotiating,” Trump said, without specifying which countries reached out.
Iran officials also contacted him, Trump said, saying they would stop shooting if Israel backed off.
“They called us and said that they are not doing any more attacks and asked us to tell Israel not to do any more attacks,” Trump told Axios.
Five killed by Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, Health Ministry says
Five people were killed and eight wounded by an Israeli strike in Tyre in southern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said in a statement.
Among the wounded were four paramedics; the ministry said the attack struck close to a Red Cross center. Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported a car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
“Following the strike that occurred in front of the Lebanese Red Cross center in Tyre, four paramedics were wounded with moderate and minor injuries as a result of shattered glass,” the Lebanese Red Cross said, adding that the injured were taken to hospital for treatment.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out strikes “throughout the day in southern Lebanon.”
The strike occurred after Tehran warned it would resume its suspended operations against Israel if Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon continue.
Tehran has “no problem” talking with US, but its behavior must change, Iran official says
Top Iranian official Ebrahim Azizi said today that Tehran has “no problem” pushing forward with peace talks with the United States in principle, so long as Iran is confident that the American side is being honest and sincere.
But, he cautioned, any potential agreement between the warring nations hinges on the US changing its behavior amid a climate of deep mistrust.
In an exclusive interview with CNN Senior International Correspondent Frederik Pleitgen, Azizi said, “If we could reach confidence that they are people of negotiation and that they also submit to the rules of negotiation, then the Islamic Republic, because it has the logic of negotiation, because it has the logic of dialogue, would have no problem with negotiating.”
Azizi, who heads the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, added that it was Tehran’s belief that US President Donald Trump is not being truthful amid the negotiations, which are aimed at turning the temporary ceasefire into a lasting agreement to end the war.
“But we have said many times that we accepted negotiation as a continuation of the battlefield. We consider negotiation to be part of the battle,” he said.
Speaking about the remaining sticking points in mediated talks, Azizi said Iran does “not see a serious will to reach a framework that could actually implement such a framework.”
The Iranian official claimed the US had initially agreed to release Iran’s frozen overseas assets “at the outset,” but Tehran has so far observed no willingness from Washington to do so. He also reiterated that current negotiations do not involve matters related to Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran has long insisted is for peaceful purposes only.
Asked whether there is a possibility of an eventual peace deal between the US and Iran, Azizi said this depends on the “behaviors that we observe from the other side.”
“If these same behaviors continue, then no,” he said. “We do not have any trust at all.”
Editor’s Note: CNN operates in Iran only with the permission of the government but maintains full editorial control of its reports.
Top Iranian negotiator says Tehran will "defeat" US naval blockade
Iran will “defeat” the United States’ naval blockade of Iranian ports, a top Iranian negotiator said today, while blaming the maritime restrictions in part for the latest military escalation in the region, according to Iranian media.
US President Donald Trump said earlier today that the US blockade, which was introduced in April, would remain in place “in full force” until a final peace agreement between the two warring nations is reached.
Trump recently said the blockade has given Washington more leverage over Iran than military strikes. Ghalibaf framed the restrictions on Monday as a violation of the temporary ceasefire, and he expressed a general lack of trust in the American side.
Ghalibaf also said Iran must pursue military operations and diplomacy together to achieve its goals.
Meanwhile, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, an elite expeditionary unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said a “new security belt of the resistance” would be established from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab al-Mandab, according to Tasnim. The Bab al-Mandab Strait is another vital maritime corridor in the Middle East at the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
Analysis: Why Lebanon is key to the future of the conflict across the region
After exchanging fire, Israel and Iran are both committing to stop attacks against one another. But Iran issued a key caveat: Israel must also stop its attacks on Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy in southern Lebanon.
That’s a non-starter for Israel, which is vowing to intensify attacks in southern Lebanon. But Iran’s new red line reflects a core part of its strategy.
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond gives his analysis on why Lebanon could determine the future of this conflict:
After exchanging fire, Israel and Iran are both committing to stop attacks against one another. But Iran issued a key caveat: Israel must also stop its attacks on Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy in southern Lebanon. That’s a non-starter for Israel, which is vowing to intensify attacks in southern Lebanon. But Iran’s new red line reflects a core part of its strategy. CNN's Jeremy Diamond examines why Lebanon could determine the future of this conflict.
US fired interceptors to defend Israel from Iranian missiles, US official says
US forces fired interceptors trying to shoot down Iranian missiles headed toward Israel in recent days, according to a US official, who said it was unclear whether the attempted intercepts were successful.
The official previously told CNN that the US had not intercepted any Iranian missiles, denying assertions from an Israeli military official who said the US had shot down some of the missiles.
American officials are still working to assess “who hit what” in the aftermath of the attack, the US official said.
The US has expended significant quantities of its own missile interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel since the war began in February.
The Israeli official also told CNN that the military coordinated overnight with US Central Command, with the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, speaking twice to the CENTCOM commander, Adm. Brad Cooper.
This post has been updated with additional reporting.
Netanyahu was preparing significant Iran attack when Trump convinced him to stand down
Israel was preparing for a significant attack in Tehran on Monday when US President Donald Trump placed a phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him to hold off on further retaliatory strikes, according to an Israeli source and a US official familiar with the matter.
The intervention appeared to have worked. Netanyahu announced afterward that Israel had halted attacks on Iran for now.
It was Trump’s second phone call to Netanyahu in a matter of hours; in an earlier conversation, Trump similarly directed the Israeli leader to back off strikes in response to the barrage of missiles Iran had fired toward Israel.
Netanyahu was resistant in the first call, which occurred Sunday evening eastern time. Instead, he insisted Israel had to respond to Iran’s attacks, the Israeli source said. Trump told Netanyahu to limit the response to avoid escalation.
Afterward, Israel targeted sites in Iran that included an important petrochemical facility.
The tone of the conversations did not become as heated as calls between the two men last week, which devolved into Trump cursing at Netanyahu.
In both of those more recent calls, Trump stressed his belief that a deal with Iran was in the final stages of being negotiated, and that going back to war could hamper efforts to resolve the conflict diplomatically.
Tehran vows to keep control over Strait of Hormuz despite new sanctions
Iran pledged today to maintain control over the critical Strait of Hormuz while criticizing fresh European Union sanctions levied on individuals and entities involved in Tehran’s drive for “sovereignty” over the choked waterway.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi called the EU’s decision to impose new sanctions “a fraudulent move.”
Earlier, the bloc’s top foreign policy official said EU member states have sanctioned some Iranians over restricting maritime traffic in the waterway, which Tehran has effectively closed since the outbreak of war in February.
Amid stalled US-Iran peace talks, commercial traffic through the channel, through which one-fifth of global crude oil flows, remains significantly reduced.
At least six Americans are being held in Iran, two of whom have been declared wrongfully detained
The US government is tracking at least six Americans detained in Iran, a US official said, including two who have been designated as wrongfully detained.
In an interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, US President Donald Trump was asked whether any deal with Iran would include the release of detained Americans.
“Nobody really has an accurate list of who they are, what they are, or if they’re being held,” Trump said.
However, the plights of the two who have been designated by the US State Department as wrongfully detained have been widely reported.
Kamran Hekmati and Reza Valizadeh have both been detained in Iran for more than a year. There are mounting concerns about their health and well-being.
Family advocates told CNN in April they had received assurances that the US negotiating team is aware of the detained Americans, and another source familiar with the matter said their names have been conveyed in the past to the team.
Valizadeh, an Iranian-American journalist, had worked in exile for Persian language outlets, including the US-funded Radio Farda. He returned to Iran in March 2024 to visit his elderly parents and was arrested in September of that year. In a recent audio recording from Evin Prison sent to CBS News, Valizadeh referenced three other American citizens detained in the notorious Tehran prison and said they are all suffering from “various diseases and are deprived from real medical services.”
Hekmati was arrested last year and sentenced to prison time by Iranian authorities for visiting Israel more than a decade ago for his son’s bar mitzvah, according to family members who spoke to CNN. Hekmati is suffering from bladder cancer.
Trump told NBC on Sunday, “If you give me their names, I’ll do my best to get them home.”
This post has been updated with additional information.
Israel says it will keep up Lebanon strikes as Iran issues warning. Catch up on the latest
Israel has accepted the Trump administration’s request to halt strikes on Iran, but said attacks in Lebanon will continue.
Iran suspended its campaign against Israel but warned it would resume attacks if the Israeli military struck southern Lebanon.
The latest strikes mark the worst escalation since the April ceasefire and resulted in more casualties across the region. The hostilities also complicate fragile truces and peace deal negotiations.
Here’s the latest on what we know:
- Israel struck southern Lebanon on Monday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported, less than an hour after Iran said it suspended military operations against Israel with the condition that Israel ends its attacks, including on Lebanon.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has halted attacks on Iran, stopping short of acknowledging a ceasefire, in his first statement since the two sides traded strikes. Netanyahu said Tehran tried to create a “new equation” by linking the conflict in Lebanon with an Iranian response.
- Prior to his public comments, Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump by phone for the second time in less than 24 hours on Monday, sources said. The call took place before Iran announced a suspension in its military operation against Israel.
- Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned of attacks on Lebanon’s capital Beirut if Hezbollah strikes on northern Israel continue.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a post on X that Tehran has not abandoned negotiations with the US after the strikes this morning. The Islamic Republic has also not left “the battlefield,” he added.
- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on “all sides to exercise restraint and give peace a little more chance” following the weekend escalation.
- Oil prices are paring some of their earlier gains after Iran said it had suspended attacks on Israel, providing some relief to traders spooked by a fresh escalation in fighting.
CNN’s Mostafa Salem, Tal Shalev, Aida Karimi, Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, Caitlin Danaher, Jeremy Diamond, Billy Stockwell and Hanna Ziady contributed to this report.
Iran's airspace returns to “normal conditions,” state media reports
Iran’s airspace has returned to “normal conditions,” and flight operations are expected to resume after Israel and Iran traded strikes, the country’s Civil Aviation Organization said, according to Iranian state media.
A short while ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has halted attacks on Iran, but stopped short of acknowledging a ceasefire, in his first statement since the two sides traded fire.
US says it attacked sanctioned vessel off coast of Oman
The United States attacked a sanctioned vessel off the coast of Oman on Monday after it attempted to approach an Iranian port, according to US Central Command.
“U.S. forces disabled an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, June 8, after the vessel violated the ongoing blockade against Iran by attempting to sail to an Iranian port,” CENTCOM said in a statement Monday.
Earlier the crew’s union, the Forward Seamen’s Union of India, said 24 Indian seafarers on board were in distress.
The vessel, Motor Tanker Marivex, was sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury in December in relation to sanctions on Iran.
In a transcript of the distress call from the tanker on Monday, the crew says there’s a fire on board following what they claim was “a US Navy attack.”
“We are (on) fire on board, and (the) vessel is sinking. US Navy attack, the missile on our engine room,” the distress call transcript obtained by CNN said. “Please help. We are (on) fire on board… 24 crew. All crew Indian.” The distress call also noted that one of the vessel’s lifeboats had caught fire.
Images of the Marivex oil tanker posted on social media, which were verified by CNN, show smoke billowing from the tanker’s engine room.
The oil tanker sails under the flag of Palau and its registered owner, Arihant Shipping Inc., appears on the US list of blocked persons and vessels for activity involving Iran.
CNN’s Michael Williams contributed to this report.
This post has been updated with a statement from CENTCOM.
Israel announces reopening of Gaza crossings less than 24 hours after closures
Israel has announced the reopening of the crossings into Gaza less than 24 hours after closing them.
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which runs the crossings, said that Kerem Shalom would be open for the “gradual entry” of humanitarian aid on Tuesday, while the Rafah crossing would open for the limited number of Palestinians allowed to cross.
COGAT said late Sunday night that the crossings would close because of what it described as “necessary security measures” in light of the renewed fighting with Iran. The crossings were only closed on Sunday.
The rapid reopening of the vital crossings is similar to what happened at the beginning of the war in late-February when Israel’s closure of the border checkpoints was quickly cancelled.
Schools to reopen in Israel Tuesday following military assessment
Restrictions on schools and workplaces in Israel are expected to be lifted on Tuesday at 6 a.m. local time, allowing the majority to reopen, the Israeli military said in a statement Monday.
In the “frontline area” and northern Israel communities, a “partial activity level” will be in place, meaning schools and workplaces will reopen as long as they are located close to a protected shelter area, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
The rest of the country will have no restrictions, the IDF added.
Earlier, Israel’s Education Minister Yoav Kisch had said schools would remain closed on Tuesday. The Ministry of Education issued an updated statement saying classes will resume tomorrow in all educational institutions in accordance with guidelines from the Home Front Command.
Netanyahu says Israeli strikes on Iran have ceased without officially acknowledging ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has halted attacks on Iran, stopping short of acknowledging a ceasefire, in his first statement since the two sides traded strikes.
Netanyahu said that Tehran tried to create a “new equation” by linking the conflict in Lebanon with an Iranian response. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran in Lebanon.
“They thought they could fire at Israel from Lebanese and Iranian territory, and that we would not respond,” Netanyahu said. “That did not happen, and it will not happen. Not on my watch.”
“I firmly stand by our right to act against our enemies,” he said.
CNN previously reported that US President Donald Trump told Netanyahu to hold off on launching a retaliatory attack against Iran, according to a US official. The two leaders have spoken on the phone twice in the last 24 hours, an Israeli official told CNN.
CNN’s Tal Shalev contributed reporting.
Israel says schools will remain closed on Tuesday
Israel said today that schools would remain closed on Tuesday after the country traded strikes with Iran in the worst escalation since the April truce.
The planned school closure continues despite US President Donald Trump’s plea for Israel and Iran to stop “shooting.” The Israeli government announced late Sunday that schools would be closed across the country on Monday after the Israeli military intercepted incoming missiles from Iran.
Remember: Tehran said earlier today it would suspend military operations against Israel but warned that attacks would resume if Israeli strikes continued, including in southern Lebanon.
