{"id":567,"date":"2026-06-20T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:31","slug":"iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-in-response-to-israels-attacks-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz in Response to Israel\u2019s Attacks on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with <\/span><\/i><i><span>a donation<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=565\">Sentencing of Palestine Action Defendants Marks a Dangerous Escalation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israel\u2019s attempts to sabotage the peace agreement between the United States and Iran appear to be working again, with its relentless attacks on Lebanon reportedly prompting Iran to once again close the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, mere days after it reopened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the United States\u2019 clear bad faith and breach of its commitment to implement the first clause of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) for ending the war, and in response to the continuous and ongoing violations of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, it is hereby announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to maritime traffic,\u201d said the Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters of the Iranian armed forces on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command claimed that traffic through the strait had continued, with 55 commercial ships traveling through it, though it was unclear when those crossings took place.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that the strait had once again closed came after days of escalating attacks by Israel despite the memorandum of understanding signed this week, which included terms for a ceasefire \u201con all fronts, including in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Israel\u2019s continued violations of the Lebanon ceasefire have placed the entire U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding in jeopardy, with Washington failing to uphold its commitment to restrain Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei said the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kDDXLg2wZK<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) June 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A ceasefire mediated by the US and Qatar between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on Friday afternoon despite continuing bombardments by Israel earlier in the day that killed 47 people and wounded 97 after Hezbollah killed four Israeli soldiers occupying Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour of the agreement taking effect, Israel began carrying out additional attacks across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley that continued through the night and into Saturday. One strike, on a three-story apartment building in the town of Barish in the Tyre district, reportedly killed a mother, father, and their two children, while wounding 12 others and leaving seven trapped beneath rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said its continued attacks were in response to Hezbollah\u2019s firing of projectiles at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah said it launched as Israel attempted to further expand its occupation toward the strategically important Ali al-Taher hills \u201cunder the cover of the ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>JD Vance on Fox &amp; Friends this morning: \u201cOne of the things the president has set us out to do as a high priority is to open the straits. That\u2019s now happened.\u201d (The strait has since been closed lol) pic.twitter.com\/iulcWtvUdR<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Israel\u2019s leaders have explicitly stated in recent days that they have no intention of abiding by any ceasefire reached between the US and Iran, leading President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to issue uncommonly blunt criticism of Israel\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=563\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health Is Government\u2019s New Target<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quoting a senior Trump adviser on Friday, <em>Zeteo<\/em> reported that behind the scenes, the president is \u201cmadder at the Israelis than the Iranians,\u201d believing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to drag him back into a war that has brought his popularity to new lows and sparked a global economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Just as it has for months, Israel\u2019s tried-and-true tactic of raining hell upon Lebanon every time a US-Iran ceasefire appears close seems to be working once again. The wave of attacks earlier this week led peace talks in Switzerland planned for Friday to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>As Iranian negotiators departed for Switzerland on Saturday, Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said little was likely to happen there unless there was evidence that the US would \u201cfulfill its obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those obligations include stopping Israel\u2019s occupation and ethnic cleansing campaign in southern Lebanon, which has now killed more than 4,000 people, wounded nearly 12,000, and led to the forced expulsion of more than 1.2 million Lebanese civilians by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is still trying to sabotage the ceasefire with Iran by continuing to launch attacks in Lebanon,\u201d said Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch. \u201cWhen will Trump impose consequences for this obstructionism?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Iran\u2019s military says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz over Israel\u2019s attacks on southern Lebanon that have killed at least 32 people since dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall joins live from Tehran. pic.twitter.com\/bwyOo65QBX<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz raises the stakes considerably for the Trump administration, which has described opening it and restoring economic normalcy as a core objective, with Trump warning of \u201cbedlam\u201d in a matter of weeks if the deal fails and the critical oil shipping route remains closed.<\/p>\n<p>James Bays, the diplomatic editor for <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>, explained that as Iranian diplomats prepare to negotiate with the US, they feel that \u201cnow is a time of maximum leverage\u201d and that they are \u201cusing that weapon now\u201d to try to force the US to restrain Israel.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has had no shortage of angry words and is reportedly \u201cswearing a lot\u201d about Netanyahu behind closed doors, Joe Kent, Trump\u2019s former counterterrorism chief \u2014 who resigned earlier this year because of his vocal opposition to the Iran war \u2014 argued that unless the US exerts material pressure on Israel, the prime minister has no incentive to stop attacking Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the MOU to hold and result in a lasting peace, we must restrict aid to Israel immediately and make it clear that we will not defend them should Iran opt to strike in response to Israel\u2019s attacks in Lebanon,\u201d he said. \u201cIsrael has not responded to our verbal and written demands \u2014 that is not going to change, unless we change it by taking action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=561\">Trump May Be Drawing Down Iran War, But He\u2019s Demanding Billions More for Bombs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli leaders have explicitly stated in recent days that they have no intention of abiding by any US-Iran ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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