{"id":162544,"date":"2026-06-16T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/162544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:17:09","slug":"iran-says-us-peace-deal-must-include-permanent-lebanon-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/162544\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says US peace deal must include permanent Lebanon ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/abbas-araghchi?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abbas Araghchi<\/a> said on Tuesday that ending the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, was \u201cthe most important\u201d issue in the peace deal with the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/united-states?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States<\/a> announced the day before.\u201cThe important point I want to emphasise here is that in our view, there are two parties to this memorandum \u2013 one side is America and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a>, and the other side is <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> and Hezbollah,\u201d said Araghchi during a briefing with foreign diplomats broadcast on state television.\u201cThis is perhaps the most important issue in the memorandum \u2013 the declaration of an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lebanon?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a>,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cending the war in Lebanon is an inseparable part of the complete end of the war\u201d.His remarks came one day after Tehran and Washington announced a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict, which broke out on February 28 with <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US-Israeli strikes on Iran<\/a> and engulfed the Middle East.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People returning to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran walk in a destroyed market shop in Nabatiyeh town, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f22a9c12-c62b-4cfb-a615-1c227accbf2c_518062c1.jpg\" title=\"People returning to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran walk in a destroyed market shop in Nabatiyeh town, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday. Photo: AP\"\/>People returning to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran walk in a destroyed market shop in Nabatiyeh town, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday. Photo: APLebanon was pulled into the war in early March when Iran-backed <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hezbollah?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> launched rockets at Israel after the killing of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, prompting Israeli strikes and a ground invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that ending the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[211,671,4174,100,34,51116,37,1093,93,49,5346,101,69,51,1705],"class_list":["post-162544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-america","tag-geneva","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-iranian-deputy-foreign-minister-majid-takht-ravanchi","tag-israel","tag-j-d-vance","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-mohammad-bagher-ghalibaf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116759274804831161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162544","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=162544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}