Trump Cancels Iran Strikes, Islamic Regime, Israel Dispute His Claims that Ceasefire Reached
The fragile US-brokered truce with Iran is under strain as Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue and Netanyahu faces falling support before elections.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump intervened to halt an exchange of fire between Iran and Israel, yet the ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran remains fragile.
- A Sunday night strike on Beirut shattered the regional pause, and because Iran insists any agreement must include a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel's strikes on southern Lebanon continue.
- Ahead of October elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces declining support, with Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli ambassador, saying 'Electorally, he has nothing to run on.'
- Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and ally Yair Lapid attacked the containment policy, with Bennett warning that Dahiyeh 'must tremble until security returns to the north.'
- Trump finds himself enmeshed in a costly 'forever war' he campaigned against, caught between a conflict in Lebanon that domestic Israeli audiences desire and the administration's need for a truce.
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Trump flip-flops on Iran again as Israel and Netanyahu can only watch from afar
If anything pushes Trump to reignite the war with Iran, it will be sheer weariness of Tehran's stalling tactics ■ The IDF is nowhere near a decisive victory in Lebanon, and its current deployment is not even aiming for one ■ The coalition's priority is protecting its own political machine ahead of the elections, leaving citizens at the bottom ■ And from the Oslo Forum, Europe sees Israel as a nation striving for everlasting war - a perspective h…
Trump cancels Iran strikes, Islamic Regime, Israel dispute his claims that ceasefire reached
IDF pushes deeper in into Lebanon to neutralize threat of Hezbollah • Iran to reestablish closure of Strait of Hormuz, blaming US tensions • IED explosion wounds two IDF soldiers
In recent days, President Trump seems to have lost the little control he had over "his" war in Iran. The ceasefire holds, at least in theory, but it is not because it gives the impression that the negotiations are going to lead anywhere but, rather, because no one can think of a better alternative. Faced with that reality, which seems solid, there is the perception that, after many weeks in which the initiative was on the side of Washington, it …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses a major threat to the ceasefire in the Middle East, according to Peter Wijninga, a defense specialist affiliated with The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS). In his view, this is primarily because Israel sees no reason to stop attacking, whereas Iran and the US—despite the reciprocal attacks—fundamentally want to end the war.
A War in a Madhouse in the Middle East. Lebanon Is Being Attacked, but Its Army Remains Indifferent.
The author is a commentator for Lidové noviny. Do you ever feel like you're in a madhouse? Such feelings are also evoked by world events. For example, when President Donald Trump launches an attack on Iran without consulting NATO and then complains that NATO left him alone in it. Or when Trump praised Israel for joining him in the attack on Iran. But now that Iran has fired missiles at Israeli territory (for the first time since the ceasefire on…
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