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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 17 Jun 202617 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Iran has accused Israel of repeatedly violating<\/a> the Lebanon truce linked to its agreement with the United States, warning that continued attacks could trigger a \u201charsh response\u201d from Tehran.<\/p>\n The accusations come after Israeli strikes killed four people in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to be \u201cmore responsible\u201d in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has insisted that any final agreement with Washington must include sanctions relief, the release of frozen Iranian assets and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.<\/p>\n Here is what we know:<\/p>\n In Iran
\nIran says Lebanon is central to any deal: Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Tohid Asadi said Iranian officials have consistently maintained that a ceasefire across the region, particularly in Lebanon, is \u201cpart and parcel\u201d of any agreement with the US.
\nThird Iranian oil tanker exits blockade line: TankerTrackers said the Sonia I, carrying one million barrels of Iranian crude, sailed past the US Navy\u2019s \u201cblockade line\u201d in the Gulf of Oman at 01:11 GMT. It follows the passage of two other Iranian tankers carrying a combined 3.8 million barrels, as Tehran says its agreement with Washington includes an immediate end to the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.
\nWar diplomacy
\nAnalyst warns Lebanon fighting could derail US-Iran deal: Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former aide to US President Ronald Reagan, said any agreement could unravel unless Washington exerts \u201creal pressure\u201d on Israel to end its attacks in Lebanon. While the US has significant leverage through its military and financial support for Israel, Bandow argued that no American president has been willing to withhold that support for long. \u201cIf Trump does not apply real pressure, if he can\u2019t find a way to do so, it\u2019s going to turn out to be theatrics,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the Iranians are not likely to find that satisfactory. It could blow up the agreement.\u201d
\nCarney calls US-Iran deal a \u2018game changer\u2019: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he had reviewed a copy of the preliminary agreement and described it as having \u201cexceeded my expectations\u201d. \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased with the deal that\u2019s been struck,\u201d he told CNN, though the terms have not been made public.
\nIn the US
\nVance says Iran can reap \u2018real benefits\u2019 if it complies: US Vice President JD Vance said the agreement is \u201cvery simple\u201d, Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon, the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and Tehran can receive \u201creal benefits\u201d if it \u201cbehaves\u201d. \u201cIf they stop funding terrorism \u2026 they actually can get some real benefits. If they don\u2019t do any of that stuff, they don\u2019t get anything,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThe United States wins either way.\u201d
\nIn Israel
\nAnnexation fears drive Hebron controversy: Reporting from Ramallah, Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh said [Finance Minister] Bezalel Smotrich\u2019s move to transfer planning powers in Hebron to the Israeli military undermines the 1997 Hebron Agreement, which divided the city between Palestinian and Israeli control, and reflects a broader push towards de facto annexation. She said the government is \u201cstepping up land grabs and de facto annexation\u201d at a time when the ruling coalition needs to \u201cshore up support\u201d, arguing these are \u201cpopular measures\u201d that could \u201cdeflect attention from the growing rift with Washington\u201d amid pressure linked to the US-Iran deal.
\nPoll shows Israelis sceptical of US-Iran deal: A survey by Israel\u2019s public broadcaster Kan found that only 18 percent of Israelis support the agreement, while 55 percent oppose it. Despite recent strikes on Iran, 70 percent said they \u201cstill fear the Iranian threat\u201d. The poll also found that 40 percent believe Donald Trump will remain a \u201cgreat friend of Israel\u201d, while 32 percent think his position towards Israel will change.
\nIn Lebanon
\nIsraeli strikes kill four in southern Lebanon: At least four people were killed<\/a> in Israeli drone strikes in Lebanon\u2019s Nabatieh governorate, according to the National News Agency, despite a ceasefire and the reported US-Iran understanding to halt fighting \u201con all fronts, including Lebanon\u201d. The attacks are likely to fuel Iranian accusations that Israel is violating the agreement and risking its collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran warns of a \u2018harsh response\u2019 as Lebanon attacks test the US deal and strain Trump-Netanyahu ties. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2542,43,5575,6897,46467,55319,12241,44,92719,84,41,39,42,40,1055,262188],"class_list":["post-743072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-explainer","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743072","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=743072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}