called Mr. Netanyahu \u201ccrazy\u201d<\/a> during a phone call and had used expletives to express his displeasure with Israel\u2019s military onslaught in Lebanon.<\/p>\nMr. Trump also told Fox on Sunday that he had a message for Iran after its latest assault on Israel: \u201cYou\u2019ve shot your missiles \u2014 that\u2019s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The strikes were the first between Israel and Iran since a cease-fire in April, which was supposed to pause the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran and buy time for negotiators to hammer out a long-term peace agreement.<\/p>\n
After the latest exchange of attacks on Monday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran\u2019s Parliament and the chief negotiator with the United States, said that Iran had \u201cdisrupted the equation of a cease-fire on paper and its repeated violations in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
The authorities reported no casualties in Israel after the military said it had intercepted the Iranian attacks. The incoming fire set off an all-too-familiar cycle for Israelis, whose nation has been at war for most of the past three years, as residents dashed back and forth to bomb shelters. Schools were also canceled, and businesses were closed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in a never-ending loop of war,\u201d said Eugene Koval, 47, who works in hospitality in the port city of Jaffa, Israel. \u201cThe only way out is through a political deal, but this government is incapable of getting on board with one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jafar Miadfar, the chief of Iran\u2019s emergency medical services, said that 14 people had been injured by Israeli attacks in Mahshahr, an industrial area that is home to Iran\u2019s largest petrochemical complex. A 15th person was injured in Tehran, Mr. Miadfar said in a statement carried by Iran\u2019s state broadcaster, IRIB.<\/p>\n
The kindling for the sudden flare-up was in Lebanon, where fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has raged, complicating Mr. Trump\u2019s push for a peace agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n
Iranian and American officials have been negotiating for months through regional intermediaries. But they have been unable to agree on a deal that would end Iran\u2019s effective blockade on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical transit route for crude oil and natural gas, and restrain the country\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, who has been helping to mediate talks between Iran and the United States, said the latest violence only underscored the fragility of the truce and the need for a durable peace deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially when the final objective is just about to be achieved, we sincerely urge all sides to exercise restraint and give peace a little more chance,\u201d Mr. Sharif wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Iran has insisted that any peace deal must apply to Lebanon \u2014 a condition that Mr. Netanyahu has firmly rejected. In his video statement to Israelis on Monday, Mr. Netanyahu said he had made clear to Mr. Trump that Israel had \u201cthe full right to self-defense, and we are exercising it as required.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m saying this to you, just as I\u2019ve said so with appreciation and respect in my good conversations with my friend President Trump,\u201d Mr. Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n
Israeli leaders believe Iran is trying to carve out a \u201czone of immunity\u201d for Hezbollah to operate in Lebanon, which would erode Israel\u2019s regional position, said Aaron David Miller, a former State Department official and Middle East expert.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s government has been negotiating with Israel, but it has no direct control over Hezbollah and has been unable to disarm the group, despite Western pressure to do so. Lebanese leaders have criticized Hezbollah for dragging the country into a devastating war with Israel at what they say is Iran\u2019s behest.<\/p>\n
The Houthis, an Iranian-backed group in Yemen, also fired a ballistic missile at central Israel on Monday and announced a naval blockade against Israel in the Red Sea, although it was unclear what that threat would mean in practice. In 2023, Houthi attacks in the Red Sea snarled global shipping<\/a> and prompted a U.S.-led bombing campaign.<\/p>\nAlthough Iran warned that it would resume strikes if Israel did not stop its attacks in southern Lebanon, Israel\u2019s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that Israel would continue striking Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny Iranian attempt to tie Lebanon and Iran and attack Israel will be answered forcefully, as it was yesterday,\u201d Mr. Katz said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n
Analysts said Israeli and Iranian leaders have both drawn a hard red line through Beirut, precipitating the latest escalation and threatening to return the countries to a wider war.<\/p>\n
Recent evidence suggests \u201cneither is willing to compromise,\u201d said Lina Khatib, an associate fellow at Chatham House, a research institute in London.<\/p>\n
Reporting was contributed by Adam Rasgon, Johnatan Reiss, Max Bearak, Lara Jakes and Michael Levenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and Israel said on Monday that they were done with a round of attacks that briefly shattered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[13820,2415,5483,4064,16433,100,379,34,37,20234,17485,93,28199,876,28701,28700,392],"class_list":["post-151711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-beirut-lebanon","tag-benjamin","tag-defense-and-military-forces","tag-donald-j","tag-ghalibaf","tag-hezbollah","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-1955","tag-katz","tag-lebanon","tag-mohammad-baqer","tag-netanyahu","tag-shahbaz","tag-sharif","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116717464155963368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}