President Trump said Tuesday that Iran had “fully and completely” agreed to allow nuclear inspections, but Tehran said there were “no plans” for IAEA inspectors to return to its bombed enrichment sites. Vice President JD Vance said Monday that U.N. inspectors could return as soon as this week, though Mr. Trump said Tuesday there was “no rush.” Iran’s chief negotiator told state media Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz will “never return to its pre-war conditions” and that Iran will maintain control of the vital waterway.
Monday was the busiest day for transits of the strait since the
war began, with 35 commercial vessels crossing the waterway, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler. That was still only about a third of pre-war traffic levels, but likely did not include some ships that transited the strait with their location transponders switched off.
47m ago Iran’s top diplomat updates Hamas on talks with U.S. Iran’s top diplomat spoke with a senior official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas regarding talks between Iran and the United States, state television reported on Wednesday.
Abbas Araghchi discussed the “latest developments” in the region with Basem Naeem, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, Iranian television said.
The call follows the signing last week of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States aimed at bringing a lasting end to hostilities in the Middle East.
The text doesn’t mention Gaza but stipulates “an immediate and permanent cessation of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon”.
Hamas has welcomed the agreement and expressed hope that it would also help end the violence in the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by over two years of war with Israel.
Iran is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, making it a cornerstone of its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
During the call, Araghchi “reaffirmed the Islamic republic’s continued support for Palestinians and their just cause until their legitimate national rights are fully realised”, according to a transcript reported by Iranian television.
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2:03 AM Trump pressures oil companies over gas prices, orders DOJ probe President Trump said early Wednesday that consumers are being “gouged” because gas prices haven’t been falling as fast as crude oil prices have on world markets — so he’s told the Department of Justice to begin an investigation.
He said on his Truth Social platform that, “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being “gouged.” I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
Oil prices increased sharply when the Iran war began and gas prices followed. But while crude prices have dropped significantly since an interim agreement was reached to end the fighting, the decline in gas prices hasn’t been as rapid. Gas prices generally tend to dip more slowly than they rise with respect to oil costs.
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1:32 AM U.N. nuclear agency boss signals that inspectors will visit Iran’s nuclear sites The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency signaled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim deal between the United States and Iran to reach an end to the war.
The comment by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi was the firmest yet from the United Nations agency, which is viewed as key in determining the status of Iran’s nuclear stockpile.
Since Israel launched a 12-day war on Iran in 2025, the IAEA has been blocked by Tehran from visiting enrichment sites where the Islamic Republic is believed to store enough highly enriched uranium to potentially build as many as 10 nuclear weapons, should it choose to rush for the bomb. Iran long has maintained that its program is peaceful, though it’s the only country in the world to have uranium enriched up to 60% purity without a weapons program.
The U.S. and Iran offered contradictory remarks Tuesday about whether those sites would be inspected.
“I can understand political statements, they are part of the reality, but the fundamental thing I would like to remind you (of) and draw your attention to is that there has been a Memorandum of Understanding, signed by both presidents,” Grossi told journalists at a news conference from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
The accord “explicitly states that the nuclear activities that are going to be carried out with the regards of the nuclear material facilities will be supervised by the IAEA – in all letters,” he said.
Grossi added: “Obviously, to do that, we have to inspect. Whether this happens the day after tomorrow or in one week or in ten days, it’s important, but not essential. This is going to happen.”
Those inspections are key for the deal, which calls for Iran’s stockpile of uranium to be “downblended” from highly enriched levels.
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11:32 PM Trump criticizes Senate for symbolic vote to curb his Iran war powers: “Poorly timed and meaningless” President Trump on Tuesday took aim at the Senate for narrowly passing a largely symbolic House resolution designed to curb his Iran war powers.
The resolution, which passed by a 50-48 margin earlier in the day, directs the president to “remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran … unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific congressional authorization for use of military force against Iran.”
In a Truth Social post Tuesday night, Mr. Trump blasted the passage, calling it “poorly timed and meaningless.”
“Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, ‘what does that all mean?'” Mr. Trump wrote. “These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done.”
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6:15 PM / June 23, 2026 Rubio arrives in UAE to meet with Gulf allies, says U.S. won’t accept Iranian toll on Strait of Hormuz Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Washington would not accept Iranian tolls or fees on the Strait of Hormuz, as disputes over the vital waterway, nuclear inspections, and missiles exposed early strains in negotiations to end the Middle East war.
“It’s an international waterway. No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway,” Rubio said as he arrived in the United Arab Emirates, the first stop on his regional tour.
His statement came after Tehran and Oman said in a joint statement that they would study the administration of the trade route and the costs to be charged for services, while insisting on their sovereignty over the strait.
Rubio is expected to meet with Gulf allies this week in the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain to discuss the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding and securing the Strait of Hormuz, according to the State Department.
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5:14 PM / June 23, 2026 Trump claims U.S. is leaving Iran “without any nuclear capacity” Speaking at a rally-style speech at a Mack Trucks facility in Pennsylvania, President Trump claimed Iran will no longer have any missile capacity or a nuclear program. The Trump administration is trying to negotiate a deal to handle Iran’s nuclear material, and enriched uranium is still in Iran.
“No missile capability, no nuclear program,” Mr. Trump said of Iran. “We’re leaving them without any nuclear capacity and they’ve agreed to that. And we’re getting along quite well, although if you read the fake news, you’d never know.”
The president said the only thing Iran understands “is the hammer,” and that’s why the U.S., he said, has pummeled its military capabilities.
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4:00 PM / June 23, 2026 Senate adopts House-passed Iran resolution in symbolic rebuke of Trump The Senate on Tuesday approved a House-passed war powers resolution on Iran, marking the first time such a measure has made it through both chambers and signifying a rare rebuke of President Trump’s handling of the conflict.
In a 50 to 48 vote, four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky — joined the bulk of Senate Democrats in support of the measure. One Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, opposed. Two Republicans — Mitch McConnell and Dave McCormick — did not vote.
The resolution directs the president to “remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” unless Congress declares war or authorizes the use of military force. But the measure is a concurrent resolution, which doesn’t carry the force of law and doesn’t require the president’s signature, meaning it is largely symbolic.
Read more here.
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2:23 PM / June 23, 2026 Iran’s World Cup squad to be allowed into the U.S. earlier than previous games U.S. immigration officials will allow the Iranian World Cup team to enter the country two days ahead of their match against Egypt on Friday, slightly easing prior entry restrictions, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The Iranian team had previously been allowed to enter the U.S. from Mexico, where it has been training, the day prior to a match.
The team still has to depart the U.S. the evening of its match. The players complained of surprisingly being forced out of the locker room as soon as possible after their first match against New Zealand. Iran has earned draws in each of their first two matches and a win against Egypt would likely earn them a trip to the knockout stage.
“The overall security measures and protocol are the same. We remain committed to providing the safest tournament possible for players, staff, and fans alike,” the DHS said.
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2:00 PM / June 23, 2026 Iran proposes Islamic countries form “new regional security architecture” Iran is reaching out to Islamic countries to form a “new regional security architecture,” according to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is visiting Pakistan on Tuesday.
Pezeshkian mentioned speaking to Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey, but not several of the Gulf countries Iran has targeted as retribution for U.S and Israeli attacks, like Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
“The unity and solidarity of the Islamic Ummah are essential for confronting common challenges,” he said.
This was the Iranian president’s first visit to Islamabad since the U.S. and Israel launched war on Iran. He said during a news conference after their meeting that there was no mention of Iran’s missile program in the memorandum of understanding signed between the U.S. and Iran.
“If it was not for Iran’s missile capabilities, our country would have been plundered and destroyed,” Pezeshkian said, vowing to “never compromise or negotiate our missile capabilities.”
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1:42 PM / June 23, 2026 Trump says senators who disagree with him on Iran deal need to be “educated” President Trump told reporters that senators who disagree with him need to be “educated,” when he was asked about Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s criticism of the Iran memorandum of understanding.
“Well I think anybody that’s been critical of it has to be educated, even if they’re friends of mine,” he said. “Because we have Iran in a position that nobody’s ever had.”
But lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including Republicans, have been voicing their frustrations that they haven’t been briefed on the memorandum of understanding. The Trump administration has not offered a briefing to the full Congress.
Cruz has been critical of allowing Iran to sell oil, as well as of near-term sanctions relief.
“History demonstrates that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is an exceptionally bad idea,” Cruz said last week. “And I think, unfortunately, the president is receiving some really bad advice on this deal. I don’t want to see us send a penny to the Ayatollah.”
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1:26 PM / June 23, 2026 Iran agreed to nuclear inspections, Trump says, but there’s “no rush” President Trump said Iran is “wrong” that nuclear inspectors aren’t coming to inspect enriched sites while speaking to reporters in Pennsylvania. The president had said inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will inspect sites, but Iran later said there are no plans for that to happen.
“They’re wrong,” he said of the Iranians. “They’re wrong. They know they’re wrong. They told us inside and we have it down, 100% inspections.”
A reporter asked the president when those inspections will take place.
“At the appropriate time,” he said. “There’s no rush.”
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12:31 PM / June 23, 2026 At least 4,190 people killed in Lebanon since Israel war began At least 4,192 people have been killed and 12,171 wounded in Lebanon since Israel’s war with Hezbollah began on March 2, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Some 1.2 million people have been displaced from their homes.
The death toll for Israel includes at least 36 soldiers and four civilians.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun held a call with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday, where they discussed the U.S., Lebanon and Iran working together to implement what was agreed to Sunday during direct U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland, according to Lebanon’s president’s office.
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12:01 PM / June 23, 2026 U.N. maritime body to begin evacuating 11,000 sailors stuck in the Gulf The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization said Tuesday that it would begin evacuating more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf by the U.S.-Iran war.
“This large-scale operation will be carried out in close cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal States in the region, the United States and the maritime industry,” IMO secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez said in a statement.
“We have secured the necessary safety guarantees and have thoroughly verified the conditions for safe navigation to support these operations,” he added.
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11:32 AM / June 23, 2026 Vance and Rubio tell Lebanon’s leader that plans for multilateral body to monitor truce “under review” Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Lebanon’s Vice President Joseph Aoun during a Tuesday phone call that the Trump administration was “closely following” efforts to create “a joint cell” involving the U.S., Lebanon and Iran that was agreed to Sunday during direct U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland.
The new body will be created “to stabilize the ceasefire in Lebanon and monitor the implementation of related measures,” the Lebanese president’s office said in a statement on the call.
The U.S. officials told Aoun “that arrangements regarding the structure and formation of this cell are currently under review.”
Vance and Rubio “reaffirmed the United States’ support for the positions of the Lebanese President and government in their efforts to extend the authority of the legitimate state, strengthen national sovereignty over all its territory through its army and security forces alone, and enable it to fulfill its commitments in this regard.”
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11:03 AM / June 23, 2026 Lebanon will accept “nothing less” than
Israeli military withdrawal, president says Lebanon’s president said Tuesday that his government would accept “nothing less” than the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the south of his country, where they have occupied a roughly six-mile deep swath of land extending from the two nations’ shared border.
“We affirm that we will accept nothing less than the end of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and the elimination of all forms of external tutelage,” President Joseph Aoun said ahead of talks in Washington with Israeli officials.
Israeli leaders say forces will remain in the “security zone” across southern Lebanon until the threat posed by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group is eliminated.
The memorandum of understanding signed last week by the U.S. and Iran calls for a “permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
“We are entering a new round of negotiations that we hope will be decisive in achieving what we seek for our country and our people,” Aoun said. “We see that objective in the full restoration of Lebanon’s sovereignty over every inch of its territory and the extension of state authority across all Lebanese land.”
Aoun’s government has been under intense pressure by Israel and the U.S. to disarm Hezbollah, which, while designated a terrorist group by both of those countries, has long been a powerful political and paramilitary force in Lebanon, in addition to being Iran’s most powerful regional proxy.
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10:24 AM / June 23, 2026 Lebanon will accept “nothing less” than Israeli military withdrawal, president says Lebanon’s president said Tuesday that his government would accept “nothing less” than the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the south of his country, where they have occupied a roughly six-mile deep swath of land extending from the two nations’ shared border.
“We affirm that we will accept nothing less than the end of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and the elimination of all forms of external tutelage,” President Joseph Aoun said ahead of talks in Washington with Israeli officials.
Israeli leaders say forces will remain in the “security zone” across southern Lebanon until the threat posed by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group is eliminated.
The memorandum of understanding signed last week by the U.S. and Iran calls for a “permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
“We are entering a new round of negotiations that we hope will be decisive in achieving what we seek for our country and our people,” Aoun said. “We see that objective in the full restoration of Lebanon’s sovereignty over every inch of its territory and the extension of state authority across all Lebanese land.”
Aoun’s government has been under intense pressure by Israel and the U.S. to disarm Hezbollah, which, while designated a terrorist group by both of those countries, has long been a powerful political and paramilitary force in Lebanon, in addition to being Iran’s most powerful regional proxy.
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10:04 AM / June 23, 2026 Israeli military says it fired at Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon in second incident of the day The Israeli military said Tuesday that forces opened fire at Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon who approached soldiers posing as civilians, in a second incident of the day.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said troops “identified four Hezbollah terrorists riding a bulldozer and a motorcycle who had crossed into the security zone and approached the soldiers, posing an immediate threat.”
According to the IDF, soldiers fired warning shots before opening fire on the alleged Hezbollah fighters. It was not clear whether anyone was injured in the incident.
The IDF called it “yet another example of the cynical use the organization makes of Lebanese civilians and civilian infrastructure as a shield for its operations.”
Flare-ups in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have threatened to derail the agreement reached between the U.S. and Iran. As part of the talks around that agreement, mediators say a “de-conflicting cell” is being created to avoid escalations, but it is not yet clear when it will commence, or how it will work.
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9:43 AM / June 23, 2026 Iran and Oman note future Strait of Hormuz management “services” will have “costs associated” Iran and Oman reiterated on Tuesday that they were hashing out plans to jointly manage commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and they said services they provide to vessels would have “costs associated.”
In a joint statement, the two countries said they were working to reach an agreement on how the waterway will be jointly managed in the future, “and the services that will be provided in this regard and the costs associated with them in accordance with international standards.”
The two countries, which both have coastlines in the vital shipping passage out of the Persian Gulf, emphasized “their sovereignty and sovereign rights over their territorial waters in the Strait of Hormuz,” and their “commitment to maintaining the Strait of Hormuz as a secure and open waterway for international navigation.”
The deal struck between the U.S. and Iran calls for Iran to “conduct dialogue with the sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz,” and specifies the discussions must be in line with applicable international law. It does not explicitly bar Iran from charging fees for passage, which Tehran has said for weeks that it will do, though not during the 60-day negotiation period with the U.S.
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9:13 AM / June 23, 2026 Top Iranian officials visit Pakistan: “Great deal of difficult work” left for mediators in U.S.-Tehran talks Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi were both in Pakistan’s capital for an official visit on Tuesday, as Islamabad continues working to broker a lasting peace deal between Tehran and the U.S.
A senior Pakistani government official told CBS News that Pezeshkian’s visit would be “very important,” with many critical issues yet to be addressed during the next two months of U.S.-Iran negotiations.
“A number of important matters still need to be defined, clarified, and discussed,” a senior Pakistani official told CBS News on Tuesday, adding that Islamabad was still working “to reduce tensions between Iran and the United States and will continue its efforts to transform the current agreement into a permanent solution and bring lasting peace to the region.”
“Significant challenges remain, and a great deal of difficult work lies ahead,” the official told CBS News. “However, Pakistan’s Prime Minister and the country’s military leadership are committed to pursuing this opportunity for peace to its conclusion.”
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8:52 AM / June 23, 2026 Iran’s U.N. ambassador denies other countries to decide how un-frozen assets will be spent Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva has rejected Vice President JD Vance’s suggestion that the U.S. and Qatar would influence how Iranian frozen assets are spent.
On Monday, the vice president said any frozen assets which are released to Iran as a result of the ongoing negotiations would not be used to fund terrorism. Vance said the U.S. and Qatar would be able to approve how that money is spent, and that it would be used to buy American products.
Ambassador Ali Bahreini rejected that suggestion on Tuesday, however, echoing a statement from the country’s foreign ministry spokesman.
“Iran is the only country who will decide what to do with its assets, which are going to be defrozen,” he told reporters in Geneva. “I reject any claim that there … would be any role for any other country to have an influence on those decisions or on those processes.”
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8:26 AM / June 23, 2026 Trump says Iran will “exclusively” buy American products with released assets President Trump insisted the U.S. would control how Iran spends its frozen financial assets released as a result of ongoing negotiations.
“The Money and/or Sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing … will be used exclusively for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American Farmers,” Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei rejected that point earlier, telling reporters that “with regard to Iran’s released assets, we will make decisions in whatever way serves the country’s interests and is most beneficial. Concerning the purchase of goods, our Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant authorities will decide based on both price and quality. Therefore, there are no restrictions in this regard.”
He noted that the U.S. Treasury had, on Monday, waived sanctions to permit Iran to sell its gas and oil again, and said that income would be spent at Tehran’s discretion.
“It is interesting to us that the philosophy and objective of the war, which they previously declared to be the destruction of Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has now been reduced to making American farmers richer,” said Baqeai.
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8:05 AM / June 23, 2026 Trump insists Iran has “fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections” President Trump insisted in a social media post on Tuesday morning that Iran had “fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future,” doubling down on Vice President JD Vance’s assertion the previous day that Tehran had agreed during the first round of direct talks on Sunday to let U.N. inspectors return to its nuclear facilities.
Vance said Iran had agreed to let International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors visit the country’s nuclear facilities as soon as this week. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday, however, that there were no plans yet for any new inspections of the most sensitive sites, which were damaged by U.S. and Israel strikes a year ago and include the facility where Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium is believed to be buried deep underground.
Mr. Trump, in his Tuesday morning Truth Social post, dismissed Iranian “protestations and false statements to the contrary,” insisting that there was an agreement for renewed inspections and adding: “If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!”
Mr. Trump said he had lifted the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and vessels “based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran.”
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7:29 AM / June 23, 2026 Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon Israel’s military said Tuesday that forces operating in southern Lebanon had killed two “armed terrorists operating in close proximity” to soldiers.
“The soldiers struck the terrorists north of the Security Zone in order to remove the threat,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
The “security zone” is an area that extends roughly six miles into Lebanese territory, spanning virtually all of its southern border with Israel, that Israeli forces have occupied for weeks. Israeli officials say forces will remain in Lebanon until the threat posed by Hezbollah is eliminated.
The incident came as Lebanon’s civil defense rescue agency told the Qatari government-owned Al Jazeera network that two people were killed and one was injured by Israeli troops firing on a group of people.
“The IDF will continue to operate to remove immediate threats and will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to harm Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
The conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah has threatened to derail the agreement struck between the U.S. and Iran, which calls for an end to military operations on all fronts, including, explicitly, Lebanon.
Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that a “de-conflicting cell” agreed to during Sunday’s first round of U.S.-Iran negotiations, aimed at avoiding escalations in Lebanon, would be the “first test” of the memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump and his Iranian counterpart last week.
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7:09 AM / June 23, 2026 Nuclear talks dependent on implementation of other points agreed with U.S. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday that the start of talks on the future of Iran’s nuclear program will be dependent on the implementation of the other points in the memorandum of understanding with the U.S.
“The text of the memorandum clearly states that the start of negotiations on these two issues [nuclear program and sanction relief] is conditional upon the implementation of specific clauses of the memorandum,” spokesman Esmail Baqaei said during a regular briefing to reporters in Tehran aired on state television.
“We are currently working to ensure that all these clauses are fulfilled as prerequisites for the start of negotiations,” he said.
Iran has long stressed the point in the memorandum that calls for a halt to hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israeli forces continue to occupy a wide swath of the country in their fight with the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
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6:47 AM / June 23, 2026 Iran says it intends to retain control of Strait of Hormuz Iran’s chief negotiator insisted Tuesday that Tehran intends to retain control of the Strait of Hormuz following talks with the U.S.
“The Strait of Hormuz will never return to its pre-war conditions and will be administered by the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with international law,” Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said according to Iranian state media.
Qalibaf, who is also the speaker of Iran’s parliament, echoed his own statements from Monday on his way back from Switzerland.
“Hopefully we can activate the strait again, in terms of passage, and bring prosperity back to [the] regional and global economy,” he said.
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6:25 AM / June 23, 2026 Monday ship traffic through Strait of Hormuz highest since start of war, data shows At least 35 commodity carriers transited the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a record level since the start of the Middle East war in late February, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler.
The 35 passages represent nearly a third of normal peacetime traffic, which was around 120 per day through the strait, which normally sees around a fifth of the world’s oil and gas exports.
The total count for Monday crossings is expected to rise further as ships are detected later by maritime trackers. Vessels will sometimes switch off their location transponders to transit the strait.
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6:25 AM / June 23, 2026 Iran denies plans for nuclear inspection of sites damaged in war Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday that there is no plan yet to allow inspectors from the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency to return to Iranian nuclear sites that were severely damaged by U.S. and Israeli strikes a year ago, casting doubt on a remark made Monday by Vice President JD Vance.
“We have not had a meeting with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, nor do we have any plans for the agency to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities damaged by the U.S. and Zionist military aggression,” Esmaeil Baqaei said at a press conference.
Vance said Monday that Iran had agreed to let IAEA inspectors visit the nuclear sites as soon as this week following talks with Tehran’s negotiators.
It is not clear whether Iran might allow inspections of other nuclear sites in the country, but the one of most interest is likely Isfahan, which was among those struck last year.
GettyImages-52511075.jpg A March 30, 2005 file photo shows a worker inside Iran’s Isfahan uranium enrichment facility, south of the capital Tehran, more than 20 years before the site was hit in a wave of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Getty Isfahan is where IAEA officials believe Iran’s stockpile of roughly 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium is buried under rubble. The material is enriched to 60% purity, a short technological step away from the 90% required to make a nuclear weapon.
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6:25 AM / June 23, 2026 Vance says Iranians can be “extremely confusing as negotiators” Vice President Vance said he did not feel snubbed by Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi when he appeared to skip out on a photo op with him on Sunday.
“Trust me, I’ve spent a lot of time dealing with the Iranians over the last few months. Sometimes I find them extremely confusing as negotiators,” he told reporters Monday following hours of meetings with Iranian negotiators and mediators in Switzerland.
Vance said there was a “sort of social media firestorm” suggesting the Iranians were going to leave the talks.
“And then we proceeded to talk to them for like the next nine hours. So I would just encourage the media, mistrust a little bit what you see coming out of Iranian social media. They can be confusing negotiators, but we feel like we’re making progress,” he said.
