The deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war with Iran includes a total cessation of hostilities in Lebanon and Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, the Hezbollah-linked Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Friday.
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Smoke rises from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Thursday. Credit: Abbas Fakuh/AFP
Smoke rises from the site of a string of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Thursday. Credit: Abbas Fakuh/AFP
The U.S. confirmed to Iranian officials that Lebanon would be included in the agreement, which stipulates ending the state of war across the Gulf and the region, the report said. According to the report, the deal includes a guarantee to halt to all Israeli demolition and bulldozing operations and a prisoner sawp.
According to the report, the breakthrough in talks occured Thursday through a Qatari channel supervised by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Citing well informed sources, Al-Akhbar said the agreement was reached through a high-ranking Iranian official who traveled to Qatar and a high-level Trump envoy.
“The U.S. President said that the U.S.-Iranian understandings have the approval of all parties and the support of brotherly and friendly countries, including Qatar,” Al Thani said, adding that Trump “confirmed the continuation of efforts to complete the final procedures in preparation for announcing the arrangements for signing the agreement.”
On Thursday, CNN quoted Trump as saying the U.S. had “ended the war” with Iran.
“I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today,” Trump reportedly said on a telerally supporting Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones, who is running for governor. “They have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon, something that we insisted on; that was the whole purpose. That was 95 percent of it.”