White House Rejects Iranian State TV Report About Memorandum Of Understanding: ‘Complete Fabrication’

It came after an Iranian delegation, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, returned to Tehran from Qatar amid efforts to reach an understanding with the United States on ending the nearly three-month-long war on the country.

An IRGC Navy official threatened to turn Iran's entire Gulf coastline into a killing ground if the US resumed strikes, even as negotiators reported the two sides were closer to an initial agreement than at any point since the April ceasefire.

In Lebanon, where violence has far from ceased despite a truce in Israel’s war with Hezbollah, Israeli strikes killed 31 people on May 26, four of them children.

Chabahar and Mahshahr are Iranian port cities at opposite ends of the country's long coastline — spanning roughly 1,500 kilometers from the Gulf of Oman to the end of the Arabian Gulf.