Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz: State media

[u/Agitated_Pudding7259]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html

The article says Iran announced Monday it will cut off all negotiations with the U.S. and move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, citing Israeli military operations in Lebanon as ceasefire violations. Tehran also threatened to activate the Bab el-Mandeb Strait chokepoint connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Oil prices jumped over 7 percent on the news.

The breakdown comes just days after Trump convened a Situation Room meeting to decide on a deal but left without making a decision. Trump posted on May 23 that a peace deal was "largely negotiated" and "Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly." Both sides launched new attacks in the following days, and Israel escalated in Lebanon with Netanyahu ordering strikes on Hezbollah-controlled Beirut suburbs. Iran's foreign minister said the ceasefire applies to all fronts including Lebanon, and violations on one front constitute violations on all.

The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively choked off since the war began on February 28, with ship traffic far below the prewar level of 100+ vessels per day. About a fifth of global oil supplies passed through the strait before the conflict. Gas prices had come down some in recent weeks on deal optimism, but that appears to be evaporating. There are also concerns Iran could impose a tolling system on ships transiting the strait.

Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran "really wants to make a deal" and told critics to "just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end. It always does!"

If Iran really wants to make a deal why are they walking away form negotiations? If the US is winning this war, why are we suing for peace?

The answer is because Iran's strategy is working. Our president and the "secretary of war" who was confirmed by one vote are not reliable sources of information.

They have been preparing for this war for decades and they know how to win it. Choking off a fifth of global oil supply has driven U.S. gas prices up 50%, cratered Trump's approval ratings, and Republicans are openly panicking about the midterms. They know the situation trump has created is FUBAR and they know they're cooked in november. Iran doesn't need to win on the battlefield. They just need to hold out and make the economic pain unsustainable until the administration comes to terms.

[u/justafutz]

No one is suggesting that either. Just weird to now see Iranian state propaganda taken at face value too.

We don’t have to take either Trump or Iranian propaganda at face value and uncritically. But a lot of the latter seems to be happening and I don’t see why we would do that.

[u/tom_snout → u/justafutz]

Among Trump's extensive list of demerits, I find it a certain kind of dispiriting that when looking for accurate information about any given moment in the course of this war one has to wait for the Iranians to weigh in. The president's messaging is a shambolic mess of bluster, fantasy, and wishful thinking. He's made the information coming out of the white house some sort of functional equivalent to that from Tehran. Or as he'd put it, "winning."

[u/justafutz → u/tom_snout]

You don’t have to wait for Iranians to weigh in to get accurate information because the Iranians are not giving accurate information either. Again, we don’t have to believe either of them. To believe the Iranians are telling the truth is as ridiculous as to believe Trump is.

[u/tom_snout → u/justafutz]

I hear that. But how many times thus far in this war have we heard the president furiously tweeting about an impending "deal" complete with all manner of Iranian concessions, only to learn some hours later from the Iranians that they'd never agreed to any such thing? It reads like Tehran fact-checking washington. Depressing to the core.

[u/justafutz → u/tom_snout]

I think we may find sometimes that Iran did agree, but the negotiators got overruled by the IRGC. We simply can’t know because of the way this all goes. I just wish we didn’t find one to be credible.