U.S. and Iran Plan Technical Talks as Israel Strikes Hezbollah and Gulf States Accuse Iran of Attacks

A senior Trump administration official said on June 28 that technical talks with Iran on implementing a memorandum of understanding remain planned for the coming days and that no talks have been canceled. The official added that both sides continue exchanging messages through deconfliction channels. -Israeli strikes on military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the United States and Iran met last weekend at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland and entered negotiations for a war-ending deal based on the memorandum signed the previous week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that the IDF destroyed an underground Hezbollah tunnel more than 200 meters long and 25 meters deep in the village of Majdal Zun in southern Lebanon.

The tunnel contained hundreds of weapons and several launch silos.

Israel informed the United States and the American representative in Lebanon in advance of the operation, which formed part of Operation Closing Verse. IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade Combat Team killed a Hezbollah militant in Deir Siryan, southern Lebanon, the night before June 28.

The military said the militant had caused the death of Captain David Hazutt and lightly injured another soldier.

IDF commanders and fighters remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon and continue destroying terrorist infrastructure. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Iran alone is responsible for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring shipping traffic to pre-war levels. He said no other body or country bears responsibility for the arrangements.