The report, in a translated post on the social media site Telegram, homed in on Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
“No dialogue will take place” until Israel fully withdraws from occupied areas in Lebanon and stops all attacks in both Lebanon and Gaza, per Tasnim.<\/p>\n
“Also, the resistance front and Iran have resolved to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts including the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, in order to punish the Zionists and their supporters,” the report said.<\/p>\n
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a trade chokepoint that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n
Oil prices<\/a> leapt more than 5% higher following Tasnim’s report, which signaled a breakdown in efforts to reach a diplomatic end to the war that is now in its fourth month.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump<\/a> just three days earlier said he would decide at a meeting<\/a> in the White House Situation Room whether to agree to a deal with Iran that would at least pause the conflict. But that meeting ended without Trump making a final decision.<\/p>\n In the following days, the U.S. and Iran launched new attacks against each other, further eroding the tattered ceasefire that has already been repeatedly ruptured by kinetic military operations.<\/p>\n At the same time, Israel has ramped up its military offensive in Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered attacks on Hezbollah-controlled suburbs in Beirut, Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an X post Monday morning said, “The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”<\/p>\n “Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation,” Araghchi wrote.<\/p>\n The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on Tasnim’s report. U.S. Central Command declined to comment.<\/p>\n Iran’s vow to escalate its clampdown on the Hormuz Strait indicates that oil exports from the Persian Gulf are unlikely to increase anytime soon.<\/p>\n Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/p>\n Exports through the strait have plunged from prewar levels due to Iran’s blockade. About a fifth of the world’s oil supplies passed through Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n Barrel prices for Brent and WTI crude oil, while still highly elevated from their pre-war levels, had retreated by double-digit percentages in recent weeks as investors grew optimistic about the prospect of a deal that would fully reopen the strait. But some of that optimism appears to have evaporated following Monday’s developments.<\/p>\n Ship traffic through the strait remains effectively choked off, as it has been\u00a0since the start of the war, due to Iranian threats and a retaliatory U.S. blockade. While a trickle of vessels have been able to transit the waterway, traffic has remained far below prewar levels, when over 100 ships would pass through each day.<\/p>\n Iran’s efforts to exert control in the strait have raised concerns that Tehran could impose a tolling system on passing ships.<\/p>\n Trump, in a Truth Social post<\/a> early Monday morning, insisted that Iran “really wants to make a deal,” while chastising U.S. critics who “keep negatively ‘chirping'” about his handling of the war.<\/p>\n “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!” Trump wrote.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Ryan Ruggiero<\/a> and Spencer Kimball<\/a> contributed to this report.<\/p>\n![\"Rystad](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/108314393-17803103771780310374-46285340475-1080pnbcnews.jpg\")
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