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The U.S. Treasury designated Nobitex, Iran's largest digital asset exchange, along with Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, saying Nobitex processed more than half of Iran's digital asset inflows in 2025 and handled IRGC-linked payments and sanctions evasion. The brothers who control Nobitex and its chief executive were also sanctioned; Nobitex denies direct government links.
Testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the first time since the war began, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran would not get sanctions relief for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and that any relief would be conditions-based, and that Iran had agreed to negotiate parts of its nuclear programme it previously refused to discuss. He said Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was alive and 'increasingly engaging'.
Trump said that after a 'very productive' call with Netanyahu no Israeli troops would go to Beirut, and that Hezbollah, through 'highly placed representatives', agreed all shooting would stop. Lebanon's presidency said Hezbollah accepted a U.S. proposal for a reciprocal halt, with no Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs in exchange for no Hezbollah attacks on Israel, while Netanyahu said the army would keep operating 'as planned' in south Lebanon.
Netanyahu instructed the military to strike 'terrorist targets' in Beirut's Dahiyeh district, citing repeated Hezbollah ceasefire violations, and the army later told residents to leave, saying it would hit Dahiyeh if Hezbollah kept firing rockets at Israeli towns. Iran's central military command warned residents of northern Israel to flee if Beirut was attacked.
CENTCOM said U.S. forces intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles fired at American troops in Kuwait at 11 p.m. ET on May 31, with no U.S. personnel harmed. The IRGC said it hit the airbase used for a U.S. attack on a telecommunications tower in Hormozgan province; CENTCOM had said it struck Iranian air defences, a ground control station and two attack drones in Goruk and on Qeshm Island over the weekend after Iran downed a U.S. MQ-1 drone.
Pars Oil and Gas Company chief Touraj Dehqani told IRNA that three offshore platforms, undamaged but halted after Israeli strikes disrupted onshore processing, were producing again with gas routed to other plants while repairs continued at facilities including the Phase 14 refinery.
CENTCOM said the Gambia-flagged Lian Star ignored more than 20 warnings while heading for an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, and a U.S. aircraft disabled it with a Hellfire missile into its engine room. It said five commercial vessels had now been disabled and 116 redirected under the blockade; a U.S. official told AP the ship was left adrift and not boarded.
The U.S. Defense Department said the two militaries held "productive, military-to-military talks" on practical frameworks for regional security, backing "Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity, free of armed non-state actors"; its statement did not mention the truce. Lebanon's prime minister called the talks "the least costly path" but said the outcome was not guaranteed.
Trump wrote that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, Hormuz must open immediately without tolls, remaining mines must be cleared, the U.S. would unearth and destroy the buried enriched uranium with Iran and the IAEA, no money would change hands for now and the blockade "will now be lifted". A two-hour Situation Room meeting ended without an announced decision, and Iran's Foreign Ministry said no final agreement had been reached.
Visiting troops near the border, Netanyahu said "our forces crossed the Litani" and were operating in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and "across the entire front". Troops had been pushing north of the river toward Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Mayfadoun and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah, southeast of Nabatieh, against heavy Hezbollah resistance.
Treasury added the Persian Gulf Strait Authority to its sanctions list and warned that anyone paying its fees may face sanctions risk. On May 28 Bessent said Treasury would "aggressively target" any actors, naming Oman, involved in facilitating Hormuz tolls, and would cut off both Iranian airlines' access to landing slots, refuelling and ticket sales.
Asked at a Cabinet meeting about a short-term arrangement for Iran and Oman to manage the strait, Trump said "nobody's going to control it" and that "Oman will behave just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up". Iran's Foreign Ministry said it stood in solidarity with Oman.
Israel's army ordered residents of Tyre and nearby camps and villages to move north of the Zahrani River, then declared all areas south of the river "combat zones" and struck what it called Hezbollah command centres in Tyre. The Zahrani lies about 25 miles from the border, farther north than the Litani, the previous line.
IRIB said it had obtained an unofficial 14-point draft under which the U.S. would lift its blockade and pull forces from Iran's vicinity while Iran restored commercial Hormuz traffic to pre-war levels within a month, with inspections and service fees staying under Iranian control. The White House said the report was "not true" and the memorandum "a complete fabrication".
First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo said a technical analysis of the May 4 attack on the HMM-operated cargo ship, including the warhead's shape and debris, showed an Iranian-made anti-ship missile was "highly likely" used, though Seoul had not conclusively assigned responsibility. Iran's ambassador, summoned to the ministry, denied any involvement.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre said a tanker about 60 nautical miles east of Muscat, near the eastern approach to Hormuz, reported an external explosion; the crew and vessel were safe but some bunker fuel spilled into the sea.
Netanyahu said he had ordered "an even greater acceleration" of operations to "crush" Hezbollah, saying Israel had killed 600 of its members in recent weeks, and residents fled Beirut's southern suburbs. A strike late that night in the Bekaa Valley killed 12 people, Lebanon's National News Agency said.
Trump wrote that it should be "mandatory" for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and others to sign the Abraham Accords simultaneously with a settlement with Iran, starting with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. At a Cabinet meeting on May 27 he said he was "not sure we should make the deal if they don't sign".
Netanyahu said that in a call the previous night he and Trump agreed any final agreement must dismantle Iran's enrichment sites and remove its enriched material, and that Trump reaffirmed Israel's right to act "on every front, including Lebanon". An Iranian source told Al Jazeera Washington was retreating on the frozen-assets mechanism and the scope of a Lebanon ceasefire.
Trump wrote that he had told negotiators not to rush and that the naval blockade "will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed". A senior administration official said Iran had agreed in principle to dispose of its highly enriched uranium, with Hormuz reopening in exchange for lifting the blockade.
After a call with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain, Trump said an agreement had been "largely negotiated", subject to finalisation, and that "the Strait of Hormuz will be opened". Iran's Fars agency said the strait would remain under Iranian management even if traffic returned to pre-war levels.
The European Council amended its existing Iran sanctions framework so it can impose travel bans and asset freezes on people responsible for undermining freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the blockade contrary to international law; no names were listed yet.
Treasury sanctioned nine people in Lebanon it accused of obstructing the peace process and Hezbollah's disarmament, including army Colonel Samir Hamadi and security officer Khattar Nasser Eldin, the first Lebanese officers it has sanctioned, and also targeted Iran's ambassador-designate Mohammad Reza Sheibani, whom Beirut had declared persona non grata in March. Lebanon's army said it had not been told in advance and that its soldiers were loyal.
The Persian Gulf Strait Authority defined its zone as running from Kuh-e Mubarak in Iran to south of Fujairah at the strait's eastern end and from Qeshm Island to Umm al-Quwain in the west, saying any transit requires its authorisation. On May 21 Rubio said a toll system would make a deal unfeasible and Trump said "we don't want tolls".
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Iran had received "the points of view of the American side" and was examining them, and that Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi's second visit in a week was to help exchange messages and clarify texts. He repeated Iran's demands for the release of frozen assets and an end to the U.S. blockade; Naqvi met President Pezeshkian the same day.
In a statement the Revolutionary Guards said Iran had not yet brought "all the capacities" of the country into action, and that if aggression were repeated the war "will this time spread beyond the region" with blows "in places you cannot even imagine".
Treasury and the State Department sanctioned the Iran-based Amin Exchange and front companies in the UAE, Turkey and Hong Kong that they said laundered money for sanctioned Iranian banks, plus 19 vessels carrying Iranian oil and petrochemicals. Treasury said it may impose secondary sanctions on foreign banks, including those tied to China's independent "teapot" refineries.
Trump said Qatar's emir, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed asked him to hold off the attack "scheduled for tomorrow" because serious negotiations were under way, and that he told Hegseth and Gen. Daniel Caine to be ready for a "full, large scale assault" at a moment's notice. On May 19 he said he had been "an hour away" from deciding and would give talks two or three days.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a new 30-day general licence would let the most vulnerable nations buy Russian oil stranded at sea, after the earlier waiver introduced to ease the Hormuz supply shock expired on May 16 without renewal. He said it would also reduce China's ability to stockpile discounted oil.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council announced a new body to manage the Strait of Hormuz; the authority said passage without its permission "will be considered illegal", and the IRGC said fibre-optic cables under the strait could also be made subject to permits. Iran said its technical teams were negotiating a transit mechanism with Oman.