Iran threatens attack on Israel hours after Trump ceasefire as Middle East on brink

Iran has warned it could launch new attacks on Israel in retaliation for strikes on Lebanon this week. Speaking to the Fars news agency, a military source said Tehran is “finalising preparations to carry out a deterrent operation against Zionist regime military positions in the occupied territories”.

They said the regime’s view is that “either the US is unable to control Netanyahu or that CENTCOM has issued a free-hand order to the Zionist regime”. Hezbollah paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week US-Iran ceasefire.

Israel’s military spokesman Avichay Adraee said: “The battle in Lebanon continues, and the ceasefire does not include Lebanon.”

The Israel Defence Force (IDF) said it launched the largest coordinated strike of the war, targeting over 100 Hezbollah command centres and military sites in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon.

The strikes killed dozens and wounded hundreds, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the IDF inflicted the largest concentrated blow to Hezbollah since the September 2024 operation that caused thousands of pagers to explode.

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