Iraq's Hezbollah threatens to close borders over Iran air embargo
The group says it will shut crossings with countries enforcing the embargo if it continues past October 1, IRIB reports.
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Iraq's Hezbollah has threatened to close its borders with any country enforcing an air embargo on Iran if the embargo continues past October 1, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.
The threat comes as talks between Washington and Tehran continue over Iran's nuclear program. Trump said today that US officials had spoken with Iranian mediators and that the nuclear threat had already stopped. US officials have described the mediated talks as positive and constructive, a softer tone than other accounts, while a source involved in the negotiations told Al Arabiya that the odds of a deal remain extremely slim, with wide gaps still unresolved.
Other reports point to more concrete movement. Al Hadath, citing sources, said Iran had agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for US sanctions relief. Axios has reported that Trump's offer would unfreeze Iranian assets in return for nuclear concessions, according to a US official, while Washington wants Tehran to follow through on a commitment made in Swiss talks to let IAEA inspectors back into the country. Separately, Iran's parliament is weighing a bill to exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty altogether, a move that would abandon the inspections framework the US wants as the basis for any deal.
A threat from an armed group to close borders adds a new channel for escalation that sits outside the US-Iran talks track, raising the risk of regional disruption regardless of how the diplomacy turns out. For crude, it reinforces the existing risk premium rather than changing the shape of the negotiations, keeping the tone in the market bearish for now.