{"id":595975,"date":"2026-04-09T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:08:10","slug":"senior-iran-officials-say-us-complacent-with-lebanon-massacre-says-ceasefire-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595975\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Iran officials say US complacent with Lebanon massacre, says ceasefire breached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s parliament speaker has doubled down on claims that Lebanon was a key part of the two-week ceasefire with the US, warning that violations would bring severe consequences, following massive Israeli strikes on its ally.<\/p>\n

This article includes updates from Thursday’s events in the Middle East. For Friday’s live blog please click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Israel on Wednesday unleashed what it said was its \u201clargest co-ordinated strike\u201d on Lebanon since the war began, killing more than 200 people and wounding over 1000, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. <\/p>\n

Iran claims the attacks are a breach of the ceasefire between the US and Iran agreed on Tuesday but Israel has said Lebanon is not included in the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world sees the massacres in Lebanon,\u201d Iran\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi\u00a0said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ball is in the US court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, there has been no \u201cuptick\u201d in traffic through the Strait of Hormuz since US President Donald Trump announced his two-weak ceasefire with Iran, contrary to claims from the White House, according to an expert analysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect that the strait will be opened immediately,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today, in her first briefing since the ceasefire started.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen an uptick in traffic in the strait, and it\u2019s something that we are monitoring minute by minute, hour by hour as the days go on.\u201d<\/p>\n

However the maritime analysis company Windward says just 11 ships have traversed the Strait of Hormuz in the day since the ceasefire was announced.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s no increase at all on the day before.<\/p>\n

\u201cHormuz transit traffic is unchanged,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

On a normal day, before the war, something like 80 ships \u2013 and sometimes well over a hundred \u2013 would traverse the strait.<\/p>\n

Read on for more updates from Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s parliament speaker has doubled down on claims that Lebanon was a key part of the two-week ceasefire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-595975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}