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Iran threatened Israel and closed the strategic Strait of Hormuz after a series of violent strikes killed over a hundred in Lebanon.
The strikes came hours after a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States entered into effect early on April 8. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who brokered the agreement, said that “an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere” was agreed upon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement welcoming the ceasefire at the time, but stressing that it does not cover Lebanon.
Later, U.S. President Donald Trump told PBS that Lebanon was not included in the two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran.
The violent Israeli strikes that targeted the capital, Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon claimed the lives of over a hundred people.
“The Israeli enemy’s airstrikes on numerous Lebanese areas, reaching the capital Beirut, have led, in an updated non-final toll, to 112 martyrs and 837 wounded,” the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement.
Hezbollah, which halted operations with the start of the ceasefire, said that it has a “right” to respond to the Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
“We affirm that the blood of the martyrs and the wounded will not be shed in vain, and that today’s massacres, like all acts of aggression and savage crimes, confirm our natural and legal right to resist the occupation and respond to its aggression,” the group said in a statement.
An Iranian security source later told the Fars news agency that the Islamic Republic is considering “deterrent operations” against Israel in response to what happened in Lebanon.
The semi-official news agency also reported that Iran has halted the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. It said that only two oil tankers were allowed to pass through the strait after the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. took effect.
“Simultaneous with Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been stopped,” the agency added.
Several shipping sources confirmed to AFP that Iranian naval forces threatened ships attempting to pass through the strait without Tehran’s permission with destruction, adding that transit through the waterway remained shut,
Following these reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that it would respond if Israel did not cease attacks on Lebanon.
“We issue a firm warning to the United States, which violates treaties, and to its Zionist ally, its executioner: if the aggression against beloved Lebanon does not cease immediately, we will fulfill our duty and deliver a response,” the Guards said in a statement carried on state TV, using a reference to Israel.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also raised the issue of ceasefire violations by Israel in Lebanon with Pakistani mediators.
Araghchi “discussed the Zionist regime’s violations of the ceasefire in Iran and Lebanon” in a call with the powerful Pakistani military leader Field Marshal Asim Munir, according to a statement by the ministry.
The Tasnim news agency even reported that Iran was prepared to withdraw from the ceasefire and retaliate over Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
“Iran will withdraw from the agreement if Israel continues to violate the ceasefire in its attack on Lebanon,” the semi-official news agency reported, citing a well-informed source.
The latest Israeli strikes on Lebanon were clearly an attempt to sabotage the ceasefire, and even to thwart American-Iranian talks set to be held in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on April 10. With the U.S. siding with Israel on this, the attempt may actually succeed.
Iran will likely refrain from responding before the talks, just to test the waters with the U.S. The Islamic Republic is not likely to hold its breath for long, however. The attack on Lebanon signals bad intentions, and Iran has already demonstrated that it will no longer wait for the fire to reach it.
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“the attack on lebanon signals bad intentions, and iran has already demonstrated that it will no longer wait for the fire to reach it.”
exactly the response needed from iran. no deal with satanic warpigs.
no cease fire will ever happen, china is getting cut off from the regions energy. that is it. the reason
hahaha fake reporting as dependable as ever from a mob of an individual entity who never keep up with the facts.
gee, another fake news troll
the zionists are always bad faith actors as soon as a peace or ceasefire is signed they start to sabotage it and see how far they can push things until people finally fight back to defend themselves against their c rimes. it will only stop once israel can no longer holi vic tim exploit the west and all christian for israel funding who pay for these settlers who literally spit on christians stops. its time that atleast enough people become jew aware and stop doing their bidding
why does israel still have air fields? why? f the ‘strategic targets’. eliminate every last flat piece of paved ground in that leech state. no air fields, no attacks on anyone. what’s so hard about that? the chinese or russians can pin-point their locations. it’s been a month and they can still launch aircraft? wtf?
right! what’s the point to bomb tel aviv using costly missiles to burn some cars and blow some holes in the streets, when the airfield are not bombed by the powerful cluster bombs warheads?
hahaha haha so sad too bad, your losing surprise!!!??
not all missiles likely have the precision it would take to take those out. also airfield are easily rebuild runways repaved unless you accurately are able to target their support facilities.
its likely iran dousnt have unlimited amounts of precision guided missiles. and all arab states such as jordan are helping the jews and americans to shoot down everything they can. so hitting difficult tagets like this is not always the most feasible.
it takes advanced guidance systems to have that kind of precision. on all missiles. iran is not a country with unlimited amounts of semiconductors and semiconductor industry to produce those. it has to make due with what it has to achieve the results it achieved so far. which is impressive compared to any other country such as iraq that quickly folded in 2003 unable to strike back at the zionists directly
it is not the “zionists”, it is the jews
did you swallow my skin i had cut off weed
that privilege is only for god’s chosen, such as yourself. you know that !
us talking animals simply don’t make the grade on that not so hygienic fetish.
expecting bloodthirsty joo filth to respect a ceasefire must be the height of absurdity. the war continues. the strait remains closed. no respite to the jooz and amerikunts to replenish their empty arsenals.
this “negotiation” example is very telling:
trump negotiates peace, including lebanon.
satanyahu says lebanon not included.
satanyahu bombs lebanon.
iran says ceasefire off coz israel violated it.
trump now says lebanon not included.
the above is all one needs to know about dealing with zionists – you simply cannot.
according yo grok israel has violated 2072 cease fire agreements to date. and counting
iran full of shit in two weeks it will the end of iran just like russia oil ports burning to warm the sea water fucking twats
getting a bit ugly down in your air raid shelter, is it ? 🖕
the globalist war cabal makes propaganda but will continue until all the regions energy is under all currency is under control of the epstine class. iran is stuck in this. if the zio globalists wanted hormuz open they would not started this war. it will stay closed by plan.
hahahaha keep trying to stir up the iranian war drums like a good lackey of the globalists
that’s right they hate the truth they lie they want to raise retirement ages to enslave people longer, they want to privatise prisons and pensions and end welfare and shut public hospitals or take them over, they want to privatise education to control the narrative, they want total mind control.
they want to take over all farming too so they have power over food and prices they want to have the powers of pharoahs. they want to restore that societies power structures but disguise it as democratic you can vote for thing one or thing two who are just siamese twins, with one head anyway. allegedly
that is for sure. no question.
incorrect reporting as usual the iranian agreement which has opened the straits and they are open, and the cease fire does
not include lebanon and isreal.
they are separate issues.
pakistani pm and field marshall munir stipulated that the lebanon ceasefire was integral to the overall agreement – in their diplomatic dispatching.
your cognitive dissonance and allround ignorance is not appreciated by us with more than half a brain in our heads. 💩
israel always was and still is a rogue lawless nation. they believe they are above the law. supremists and extreme racists
fuck russia with love from iran ( ◜‿◝ )♡
have you have you sina sina? have you have you seen a, seen a? have you have you seen her seen her? hoću hoću sina sina.
shitrael is getting more pathetic with time. 100 targets in 10 minutes relying on bullshit “a.i” that is so fake and gay