DUBAI/CAIRO - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had productive calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, raising hopes a truce in Lebanon could hold despite Iranian state media suggestions that it could collapse.

On social media, Trump said the armed group, through intermediaries, pledged it would not attack Israel while Netanyahu agreed to pull back any troops preparing to attack Lebanon.

But Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon and Hezbollah attacks on Israeli troops there continued on Monday evening.

Earlier, the Iranian state news agency Tasnim said Tehran was halting indirect negotiations with the U.S. after Israel ordered its troops on Sunday to push deeper into Lebanon, complicating diplomatic efforts to end three months of war.

Trump told an NBC reporter that he had not heard from Iran on any suspension of the indirect talks.

Iranian state TV then reported that the ceasefire with the U.S., in force since early April, was very likely to end if the Israeli attacks on Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon persisted.

There was no direct confirmation of the reports from Iranian officials, though the foreign ministry reiterated late on Monday that Tehran held the U.S. responsible for all violations of their joint ceasefire and of the truce in Lebanon.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had held a "very productive call" with Netanyahu and separately communicated with Hezbollah.

"... there will be no (Israeli) Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back," he said. There was no immediate comment from Israel.

Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, and that was expected to be an air assault as Israel has launched several times since the ceasefire went into effect in mid-April.

On the ground, Israeli troops already controlled a swathe of southern Lebanon from the border to the Litani River and have been pushing beyond it toward the Zaharani River, around 10 km (6 miles) further north, marking their deepest incursion in Lebanon in 25 years.

Trump also said Hezbollah had to stop attacks on Israel: "Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop," he said in the post.

Later, Lebanon's presidency said Hezbollah agreed to a U.S. proposal on a mutual cessation of attacks that would be expanded to all Lebanese territory. This suggested the group's pledge did not extend to northern Israel, where the group has repeatedly attacked since the ceasefire went into effect.

No U.S. president has ever spoken with Hezbollah, with or without intermediaries. The group is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.

(Reporting by Reuters bureaus; Writing by Lincoln Feast, Timothy Heritage, Gareth Jones and Cynthia Osterman; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Alex Richardson and Andrew Heavens)

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This story was originally published June 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM.

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