Iran on Tuesday reportedly suspended all diplomatic and indirect communications with the United States, hours before President Donald Trump’s self-imposed deadline for Tehran to reopen the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
According to Iranian media outlet Tehran Times, Iran has suspended all diplomatic and indirect lines of communication with the United States.
"Iran has closed all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the United States. Any and all message exchanges have also been suspended," the outlet reported.
The announcement escalates tensions in the region just as Trump warned of a potentially historic confrontation.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump wrote, “A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will,” adding that 47 years of what he called “extortion, corruption and death” would “finally end” by nightfall.
The closure of communication channels marks a significant deterioration in US-Iran relations amid mounting geopolitical pressures surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil transit route.
Soon after President Trump’s threat, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned countries in the Persian Gulf that “good neighborliness and self-restraint have ended,” signaling that the US and its allies could be deprived of the region’s oil and gas “for years."
“We will deal with the infrastructure of the United States and its partners in the Persian Gulf in such a way that they will be deprived of the region's oil and gas for years," the IRGC said in a statement.
The warning came after reported airstrikes by the United States and Israel on Kharg Island, a key Iranian oil-export terminal in the Persian Gulf, according to state-linked Mehr News Agency.
The report said the strikes targeted installations including a radar station, docking facilities, and military sites.
With inputs from agencies
