Iran halts U.S. talks as oil rises sharply (opens in new tab)

Iran’s Tasnim news agency said Monday that Tehran’s negotiating team had stopped exchanging messages with the United States through mediators, citing Israeli attacks in Lebanon, as diplomatic efforts to end the three-month-old Iran war continued. Tasnim said Iran and the “Resistance Front,” including allied groups in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, had set an agenda to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, to “punish” Israel and its supp...