Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Monday that Tehran’s negotiating team is stopping exchanges of messages with the United States through mediators due to attacks on Lebanon, as diplomatic efforts to end the three-month-old Iran war continue. The agency said Iran and the Resistance Front, which includes its Shiite allies in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, have set an agenda to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab El Mandeb Strait, in order to “punish” Israel and its supporters.

TEHRAN -- Iran has halted message exchanges with the United States via mediation in protest against Israel's actions in Lebanon, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported…

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