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On 14 June 2026 President Trump announced a memorandum to end the four-month Iran war would be electronically signed the next day, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while Iranian officials publicly rejected any Sunday signing and hard-liners protested in Tehran.
Washington and mediator Pakistan announced an electronic signing of a cease-fire framework with Iran for 14 June 2026, but Tehran publicly said the memorandum would not be inked that day, exposing a last-minute gap in timing and terms.
On 13 June 2026, the EU’s 27 ambassadors unanimously lifted the Hungarian block and approved opening the ‘Fundamentals’ cluster of accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, with the first Inter-Governmental Conference set for 15 June.
On 12 June 2026, mere hours after ordering “very hard” attacks and pledging to capture Iran’s oil-export hub Kharg Island, President Trump cancelled the strikes, claiming top-level Iranian assent to a yet-unsigned cease-fire deal.
In early June 2026, Tehran deliberately collapsed tunnels and laid mines around its Isfahan enriched-uranium stockpile just weeks after President Trump shelved a nearly-approved U.S. ground mission to seize the material, sharply raising the technical and political cost of any future extraction under the draft cease-fire deal.
On 11 June 2026, immediately after a second, wider U.S. bombing campaign inside Iran, Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz "completely closed" and warned it would fire on any ship attempting transit.
On 11 June 2026 President Trump halted planned U.S. strikes and declared a preliminary U.S.–Iran memorandum ready for signature in Europe within days, promising immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to the American oil blockade once inked.
New Delhi publicly summoned the U.S. chargé d’affaires on 11 June 2026 after a U.S. aircraft, enforcing an Iran-oil blockade, struck the Palau-flagged tanker MT Settebello off Oman the previous day, causing the first Indian fatalities of the campaign.
On 11 June 2026 Washington unleashed a new wave of strikes inside Iran, and Tehran retaliated by formally closing the Strait of Hormuz and hitting U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, shattering April’s cease-fire and pushing Brent crude above $94.
At 5:15 p.m. ET on 10 June 2026, U.S. forces hit multiple Iranian air-defense, radar and drone sites for a second straight night, prompting Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping.
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