Iran war updates: Trump says he spoke to Netanyahu, Hezbollah about Lebanon

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• Trump said he anticipates securing an agreement with Iran within the coming week to extend the ceasefire and see the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
• He also said he held conversations with Netanyahu and Hezbollah regarding the Lebanon ceasefire, adding that both sides said they would stop attacking.
• Iran’s foreign minister emphasised that achieving a comprehensive truce in Lebanon remains a “fundamental requirement” for any agreement with the US. He added that breaching the agreement on any front would be considered a violation “across all fronts”.
• The US military said it has turned away 121 commercial ships and “disabled” five others as part of its active blockade on Iranian ports.
• France has barred Israeli government officials from attending this month’s Eurosatory defence expo in Paris, according to Israel’s Defence Ministry.
• An Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least one person.

US envoy to the United Nations Mike Waltz has said that Trump “cares deeply about Lebanon personally” and that the US President’s proposal includes “a clear sequence to end the conflict”.

To begin with, Waltz told the UN Security Council: “Hezbollah, which started the fighting, must stop its attacks in Israel.”

This will lead to “a gradual de-escalation” and “ultimately, a cessation of hostilities” he added.

Waltz primarily dedicated his speech to criticising “Iranian proxy” Hezbollah, including for causing injuries to Israeli civilians. He did not directly mention Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanese civilians.

Waltz also expressed support for “the legitimate government” of Lebanon.

“We are backing the Lebanese government’s efforts to make Lebanon great again,” he said.

Iran’s parliament speaker, Ghalibaf, has told his Lebanese counterpart, Nabih Berri, that any agreement to end the war between Iran and the US “will include the cessation of attacks on all fronts, especially Lebanon”.

He added that if Israel’s attacks continue, Iran will “not only stop the dialogue process”, but would also “stand against” the country.

Fourteen UN human rights experts have issued a “stark warning about surging Israeli settler terror” in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

The attacks “have become a daily terror in Palestinian lives, sowing fear, uncertainty, and profound insecurity that inevitably compels the forcible displacement of the indigenous population”, the experts, including the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, said in a statement.

The “relentless attacks by the settler-colonial movement” were “carried out with the support and acquiescence” of Israel, the experts added, warning that “full impunity” for the “escalating violence” was “facilitating ethnic cleansing”.

This was an emergency meeting of the Security Council requested by France, which is the penholder of the Lebanon file.

That basically means France leads the issue when it comes to the Security Council.

The French ambassador says Israel certainly has a right to defend itself – we hear that time and time again – but also that there is absolutely no justification for Israeli attacks on Lebanon and attacks on its sovereignty, calling for Israel to stop and pull back its forces.

France’s ambassador to the UN, Jerome Bonnafont, says it is time for “concrete results” in talks between “Lebanon and Israel”, as he welcomed an “important announcement” that “has just been made”.

Bonnafont was addressing the UN Security Council during an emergency meeting called by France soon after Trump said that “all shooting will stop” between Israel and Hezbollah.

The French representative was critical of both Hezbollah and Israeli forces in his speech, emphasising the importance of supporting Lebanese sovereignty and Lebanese armed forces.

“Israel’s lasting security lies neither in war nor in occupation; much rather, it lies in peace with its neighbours and in regional stability,” he said.

Bonnafont added that France plans to host an “international conference in support of the Lebanese armed forces” in Paris as “soon as circumstances permit”, noting that France is providing 39 armoured vehicles to the Lebanese army.

Israeli operations in Lebanon and Gaza will cause Iran and its allies to establish a similar traffic situation in the Bab al-Mandeb and Hormuz straits, says Esmaeil Qaani, the commander of IRGC’s Quds Force, according to Iranian state media.

The UN must maintain a presence in Lebanon when UNIFIL’s mandate expires at the end of the year, UN chief Antonio Guterres has told the Security Council.

“Under all proposed options, a uniformed United Nations presence working to facilitate de-escalation, dialogue, liaison and coordination, and support for the Lebanese Armed Forces, would be necessary… towards the overarching objective of a long-term solution to the conflict,” he said.

Guterres has proposed three options, ranging from nearly 2,000 to more than 5,500 UN personnel.

Currently, around 7,500 peacekeepers from nearly 50 countries make up UNIFIL. They are deployed in southern Lebanon near the Blue Line, the 120km (75-mile) effective border between Lebanon and Israel, where they are in the middle of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.

Trump says he thinks he will have a deal with Iran to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz “over the next week”.

He told ABC News he has not yet agreed to an MoU for opening the strait because “I still have to get a few more points”.

Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli soldiers in the Israeli city of Ma’alot-Tarshiha and southern Lebanon’s Odaisseh.

Trump’s desire to move Iran’s enriched uranium out of the country is “difficult but not impossible” to fulfil, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told Al Jazeera.

Iran has an estimated 440kg of uranium enriched to about 60 percent and Trump has repeatedly suggested moving it abroad.

Such an operation is “not easy, because this is in gas form, highly contaminant, and it’s not an easy operation”, Rafael Grossi said. Alternatives include “downblending” the uranium into a less potent form.

“All of these things are the things we have been discussing,” Grossi said.

Although the IAEA has not been at the negotiating table, Grossi is communicating separately with Tehran and Washington.

“Our contribution to this is to make it possible, to make it viable,” he said of a potential deal.

Dr Mohamad Raad, a physician associated with the University of Southern California in the US, speaks out after it was revealed that bodies donated for science to the university are being used to train Israeli army medics.

Watch the video below:⁣

Israeli military medics are training on dead Americans. And it’s all happening thanks to a little-known connection between two U.S. universities and the Navy.@Dena reports in collaboration with the student journalists who broke the story about the body donor program. pic.twitter.com/PmJjiLcJOT

— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 1, 2026

I think what this also indicates is the growing problem facing this president and this White House and that is that he has really got an escalating conflict, given the fact that Hezbollah is Iran-aligned and the fact that he has in the last two hours tweeted trying to contain both fronts.

It is not only the conflict the US and Israel have with Iran, but also the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

It is important to note that the US president has done something that’s quite remarkable and that is that he has spoken to Hezbollah. That is something that is unprecedented in terms of US presidents, whether it is directly or via an intermediary.

Earlier today, Netanyahu instructed the Israeli army to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs followed by Israeli army threats to residents.

• Trump later said he spoke separately to Netanyahu and “through highly placed representatives” with Hezbollah.
• Trump said Israeli troops would not enter Beirut and that the Lebanese group had agreed to stop fighting Israeli forces.
• The Lebanese government said authorities received confirmation of Hezbollah’s agreement to a US proposal under which Israel would halt strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from attacks on Israel.
• The ceasefire framework will be “expanded to encompass all Lebanese territories”, it added.
• Netanyahu later said he told Trump that Israeli forces would “continue to operate as planned” in southern Lebanon. He added that if Hezbollah did not “cease attacking our cities and citizens … Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut”.
• Israel’s far-right minister Ben-Gvir criticised Trump’s announcement saying “it is time to say no to Trump”.
• A Qatari diplomatic source told Al Jazeera that Qatar initiated contact with the US last Sunday to push for de-escalation in southern Lebanon.