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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.
During his 8–9 June 2026 visit—his first foreign travel this year—China’s Xi Jinping publicly proposed deeper military exchanges with Kim Jong Un yet, for the first time, scrapped any call for North Korean denuclearization, signalling Beijing’s pivot to tacitly accept a nuclear DPRK while vying with Moscow for influence.
On 9 June 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron jointly pulled the plug on the €100 billion Franco-German-Spanish FCAS fighter jet project after Airbus and Dassault failed to break their year-long stalemate.
On 8-9 June 2026, Xi Jinping spent two days in Pyongyang—his first foreign trip of the year and first visit to North Korea in seven years—signalling Beijing’s push to reclaim influence after Kim Jong Un’s recent tilt toward Moscow.
On 9 June 2026 the 21-member Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties voted to suspend ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct and referred his fate to a forthcoming special session of the full 125 member states.
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