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Message exchanges between Iran and the United States aimed at reaching an initial memorandum of understanding between Tehran and Washington were suspended at least several days, IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing an informed source.

Iran’s last message to Washington was "a clear message regarding Lebanon," the source was quoted as saying.

Iran's former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral procession will likely be held toward the end of the current Iranian calendar month of Khordad, which ends on June 21, Tehran municipality's deputy for social and cultural affairs, said on Tuesday.

Mohammad Ali Tavakolizadeh said Iran's Revolutionary Guards are in charge of organizing the funeral ceremony and that discussions were underway about extending preparation time to better organize the event.

He said three days had been allocated for the public to bid farewell to Khamenei's body and that the ceremony in Tehran would last at least 24 hours.

Tavakolizadeh added that Khamenei's body would also be taken in funeral processions in the holy city of Qom and in Mashhad before being buried, in accordance with his will, at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam in Shiite Islam.

Exiled Iranian Princess Noor Pahlavi said on Tuesday that her family was fighting for Iranians who have been denied freedom for 47 years.

Speaking at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, she said her father, Prince Reza Pahlavi, and her family seek free elections in Iran.

“My father's goal, and ours as a family, is singular: a transition to free and fair elections in which Iranians decide their future. We are not fighting for a throne, we are fighting for freedom for a people who have been denied it for 47 years,” Princess Noor said.

“There is no neutral handshake,” she told the forum. “You are either standing with 92 million Iranians fighting for freedom, or you are shaking the bloody hands of those murdering them.”

Bahrain banned its citizens from traveling to Iran and Iraq because of ongoing security tensions, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday night that the foundations of Iran’s ruling system had “cracked” and that it would eventually fall.

Speaking at a farewell ceremony for outgoing Mossad chief David Barnea, Netanyahu said Iran had already paid a heavy price, according to a statement form the prime minister’s office.

“The foundations of this terrorist regime in Iran have cracked. It will never return to what it was, and I tell you – it will fall in the end,” Netanyahu said.

He also warned that anyone plotting against Israel would fail and pay a heavy price.

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