Trump Was Three Days From an Iran Deal and Then Jets and Troops Prepared to March

Trump had a deal with Iran three days from closing.

Then jets and troops were ordered back to Beirut and southern Lebanon.

Here’s how the deal got torpedoed – it’s at least the second time someone has thwarted such a deal at the last minute.

Ceasefire Deal Once Again Implodes

The deal was almost finished.

Both sides had spent weeks working out the terms – a framework to extend the ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and begin nuclear talks.

Then the machinations to keep war going began once again.

The Daily Mail relayed reports from Middle East outlet AL-Monitor that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “seething as Donald Trump edges closer to striking a peace deal with Iran.”

“Netanyahu privately views the looming US-Iran pact as an unmitigated catastrophe and lays the blame squarely at Trump's feet, a senior political source revealed to AL-Monitor,” The Daily Mail wrote on Friday.

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As the weekend came and went, reports emerged that Iran was backing away but this appears un-true, according to President Trump.

Trump said to “relax” that “Iran really wants to make a deal.”

Fox News and saddled Trump’s remarks on a peace deal remaining alive next along with a breathless report that U.S. Central Command says Iran shot down an American MQ-1 drone operating over international waters.

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Fox News viewers were treated to the news that drones are a self, apparently, as CENTCOM struck back with “self-defense strikes” on Iranian radar and drone command-and-control sites at Goruk and on Qeshm Island.

The IRGC reportedly retaliated by launching ballistic missiles at an American air base in Kuwait.

Kuwait's air defenses intercepted both missiles Sunday night.

No Americans were harmed.

Then on Monday morning, Netanyahu gave orders to strike neighborhoods in southern Beirut, which Iran insists violates the April ceasefire.

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Netanyahu’s order had its logical, if not intended, impact, as Iran's state media outlet Tasnim News Agency announced the negotiating team was suspending all indirect communications with the U.S. through mediators.

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Tasnim declared that Lebanon was a precondition of the agreement and the truce had been "violated on all fronts."

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that any breach on one front "shall be considered a violation of it across all fronts."

Iran also announced it would move to close the Strait of Hormuz completely.

Netanyahu's Lebanon operations are Iran's excuse, not its reason.

Trump sent back tougher nuclear language Friday, and Tehran needed a villain to blame for rejecting it.

Trump Said Iran Really Wants a Deal and Nobody Should Drop Bombs

Here is what Donald Trump did not do.

He did not cancel meetings.

He did not move strike packages – despite Fox News’ CENTCOM “self-defense strikes” reports.

When NBC News reached him Monday, Trump said Iran had not officially told the U.S. it was walking away – and that even if Tehran had, that did not mean America was "going to go and start dropping bombs all over there."

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Then Trump posted on Truth Social announcing he’d spoken with Netanyahu and Hezbollah and that they’d both agreed to ceasefire.

"I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

But Netanyahu had a different take away from the call apparently.

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Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Costing Every American at the Pump and Netanyahu Seems Hellbent on it Continuing

Oil jumped more than six dollars a barrel the moment the peace deal got scuttled.

The Strait of Hormuz carries 20 percent of the world's traded oil and natural gas in peacetime.

Its closure does not just spike gas prices at your local station.

Natural gas is the feedstock for fertilizer production, and fertilizer is what keeps global food supply chains running.

When the Strait tightens, fertilizer prices climb.

When fertilizer prices climb, grocery bills follow.

Netanyahu knows which levers to pull.

Every day the ongoing conflict keeps the Strait closed, or threatens to, is a day Americans pay more for gas, more for food, and more for everything that moves on a truck.

Netanyahu Has Torched Two Iran Deals and Trump Said He Does Whatever Trump Tells Him

This is not the first time Netanyahu's Lebanon strikes have killed a nearly-finished agreement.

It happened on April 8 – the day Pakistan announced the original two-week ceasefire.

Hours after that announcement, Israel launched what it called its largest coordinated strike of the war: more than 100 targets hit across Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley in ten minutes, killing 357 people.

Iran closed the Strait.

Karoline Leavitt called it "completely unacceptable."

CBS News later reported that Trump had initially included Lebanon in the ceasefire terms – and changed his position only after a phone call with Netanyahu.

It is happening again today, in identical sequence.

Trump sent revised nuclear terms to Tehran Friday and gave Iran three days to respond – which to many seems like bad faith for the art of the deal guy.

Washington had held Israel back from striking Lebanon for weeks as a direct concession to keep the 60-day MOU talks alive.

The moment Trump's terms were updated, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz ordered the IDF back into Beirut's Dahiyeh district – inside that three-day window.

Iran responded as basically anyone with half a brain would.

Eleven days ago, on May 20, Trump told reporters that Netanyahu "will do whatever I want him to do. He's a very good man."

Either that claim aged badly in less than two weeks, or the question of who is directing this war deserves a harder look.

Iran's crude oil exports for May ran below 0.3 million barrels per day – down from 1.7 million in March.

A regime hemorrhaging revenue at that rate wants out.

The question America First voters should be asking is who benefits from making sure Trump never gets the deal done.

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No wonder Trump just told his daughter on Fox News that we “shouldn’t have been in Iran.”

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He better figure it out soon because as of right now it looks like he’s letting a man he gave a ceremonial key to the White House, threaten his legacy, the midterms, and everyone’s pocketbooks.

Sources:

• Vaughn Cockayne, "Iran Suspends Talks with U.S. Over Israeli Attack in Lebanon; CENTCOM Intercepts Missiles to Kuwait," The Washington Times, June 1, 2026.
• "U.S. Accuses Iran of 'Egregious Ceasefire Violation' with Drone and Missile Attacks," Breitbart, May 28, 2026.
• "Trump Agrees to 2-Week Ceasefire If Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz," Fox News, April 7, 2026.
• "U.S. Bombs Radar, Drone Sites in Iran," The Hill, June 1, 2026.
• "Iran War: Trump Hits Out at Critics, Says Tehran 'Really Wants' a Deal," CNBC, June 1, 2026.
• "New Iran Peace Proposal Triggers Tense Trump-Netanyahu Call," Axios, May 20, 2026.