Missiles and negotiations: Iran 100 days into the war with US and Israel

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Jun 07, 2026 · 1131 words · By Maziar Motamedi

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Missiles and negotiations: Iran 100 days into the war with US and Israel Talks and projectile attacks have continued for months, and could last much longer absent a breakthrough.

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What happened

Missiles and negotiations: Iran 100 days into the war with US and Israel Talks and projectile attacks have continued for months, and could last much longer absent a breakthrough.

Why it matters

Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities remain defiant 100 days into the war launched by the United States and Israel as no lasting resolution appears in sight, and civilians bear the brunt of a conflict that has roiled global markets.

Common ground

On the streets of the capital, Tehran, most shops are open, although not with as many customers as before.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Slogans: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What terms are actually in the Iran proposal, and which side would have to compromise first?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that other top commanders and officials killed on February 28 were also buried months later?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “other top commanders and officials killed on February 28 were also buried months later”

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Wikipedia and other reports confirm that the February 28 strikes killed several Iranian officials and commanders, including the Supreme Leader.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR Iran or IRI), historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the beginning of the 2025–26 Iranian protests, the Iranian government has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and importing foreign militias to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran_massacres

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Claim 2: “On Sunday, it traded at about 1.77 million per US dollar in Tehran’s open market”

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Claim 3: “Food inflation was at 130 percent for the same period, with solid vegetable oil up 431 percent, eggs 342 percent, chicken 287 percent and imported rice by 222 percent”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to verify specific food inflation percentages for vegetable oil, eggs, chicken, or rice.

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Claim 4: “Mojtaba Khamenei, who was selected as supreme leader by a clerical body after the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war.”

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Wikipedia confirms Ali Khamenei was assassinated on February 28, 2026, and that Mojtaba Khamenei has served as the third supreme leader since 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojtaba_Khamenei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated in Tehran as part of a series of Israeli airstrikes aimed at high-ranking Iranian officials. Khamenei's death was confir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ali_Khamenei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Masoud Hosseini Khamenei (born 1974), also known as Mohsen Khamenei is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the third son of the second Iranian supreme leader Ali K…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud_Khamenei

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Claim 5: “Iranian authorities remain defiant 100 days into the war launched by the United States and Israel”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that since February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran. The claim of '100 days' aligns with the timeline of a war starting Feb 28 and continuing into late May/June 2026 as indicated by other evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2025 and 2026, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Ali…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…

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Claim 6: “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran hosted Pakistan’s interior minister”

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Multiple sources, including ISNA and the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, confirm the visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Tehran.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Pakistani Interior Minister went on to express his appreciation to Ghalibaf, Momeni, and Araghchi, adding: "We hope to bring this matter to a successful conclusion."Meeting between Pakistan's Inte…
https://en.isna.ir/news/1405031709898/Details-of-Pakistani-I…

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web search NEUTRAL — Minister of Foreign Affairs. Office of Deputies.Jean Arnault the United Nations Special Representative for Lebanon who is in Tehran for consultations with Iranian officials met on Sunday afternoon wit…
https://en.mfa.ir/

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web search NEUTRAL — Esmaeil Baghaei, the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced that the recent visit of Mohsin Naqvi, the Interior Minister of Pakistan...
https://iranwire.com/en/news/152688-baghaei-pakistani-interi…

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Claim 7: “The authorities have yet to hold funeral processions for Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran for nearly 37 years.”

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Multiple web sources confirm Ali Khamenei ruled for nearly 37 years and that his burial was scheduled for July 9, meaning funeral processions had not yet occurred in the months following his February death.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani (né Bahramani; 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who was the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the foun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Hashemi_Rafsanjani

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Iran on 2 October 1981 following the assassination of president Mohammad-Ali Rajai. Ali Khamenei was elected with 95% of the vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1981_Iranian_president…

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Claim 8: “Inflation was running unchecked at nearly 84 percent year-on-year during the second month of the Persian calendar year that ended on May 21, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.”

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While the exact 84% figure for the specific date of May 21 varies slightly across sources (one says 82.6% for April 20, another says 83.1% for May 22-June 21), multiple sources confirm inflation in the 80%+ range during this period.

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web search NEUTRAL — TEHRAN, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Iran's year-on-year inflation rate in the third month of the current Iranian calendar year, between May 22 and June 21, rose to 88.6 percent, the official news agency IRNA …
https://english.news.cn/20260628/ee93362fb8204867b1ea1aade64…

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web search NEUTRAL — The year-on-year inflation of the month ending April 20 was 82.6%.The overall average goods and services Consumer Price Index in the 12-month period ending May 21 increased by 41% compared with the co…
https://financialtribune.com/articles/domestic-economy/10929…

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web search NEUTRAL — According to the CBI, year-on-year inflation reached 83.1% at the end of the period 22 May–21 June 2026, while the annual inflation rate stood at 57.7%.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/30/irans-inflation…

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Claim 9: “Mojtaba Khamenei, who was reportedly wounded in the same US-Israeli strikes that killed his father and other family members”

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Multiple Al Jazeera reports state that Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly wounded in the February 28 strikes that killed his father.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Khamenei family is an Iranian religious and political family that has ruled Iran as the state's supreme leader since Ali Khamenei was elected to the position as its second holder in 1989. After hi…
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Claim 10: “leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who have continued to heavily disrupt the flow of energy and goods through the Strait of Hormuz while fighting off the US blockade of Iran’s ports.”

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Wikipedia and other sources confirm that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been largely blocked by Iran since February 28, 2026, and that a US blockade of ports is in effect.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis

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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago ... While Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in past conflicts, it has never followed through. Perhaps the closest call ...
https://www.facebook.com/middleeastmonitor/posts/irans-islam…

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago ... President Trump just made it crystal clear: Iran will NOT be allowed to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz during the 60-day ceasefire or ...
https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica/posts/the-us-blo…

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Claim 11: “two state-imposed internet shutdowns over the past several months”

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Multiple sources confirm state-imposed internet shutdowns: one on January 8, 2026, and another reported as of April 5, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — On 8 January 2026, the twelfth day of the 2025–2026 protests in Iran, Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout. Reports from Iran described ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran

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web search NEUTRAL — Iran says internet access has been fully restored after the largest state-imposed internet shutdown in modern history. Reports from inside the country ...
https://acleddata.com/expert-comment/has-iran-really-restore…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 5, 2026 ... “Tehran and other parts of Iran are now entering a digital blackout, as connectivity falls on multiple providers,” internet monitoring group ...
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/breaking-irans-inte…

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Claim 12: “the judiciary continues to announce near-daily executions of dissidents, including people arrested during the current war, during the nationwide protests in January and the 12-day war with Israel and the US almost a year ago.”

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Claim 13: “the main index was on the verge of retaking the all-time high threshold of 4.5 million points first reached at the start of 2026.”

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