{"id":592588,"date":"2026-04-09T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:55:12","slug":"u-s-iran-ceasefire-teeters-over-israeli-attacks-on-lebanon-iranian-control-over-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592588\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Iran ceasefire teeters over Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian control over Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a religious Shiite complex the day before in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon on Thursday.MAHMOUD ZAYYAT\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel\u2019s intense bombardment of Beirut, Tehran\u2019s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether negotiators can find common ground on a range of other differences.<\/p>\n

Hours after the ceasefire was announced \u2013 amid disagreement over whether it included a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah \u2013 Israel pounded Beirut with air strikes, resulting in the deadliest day in the country since the war began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

Iran and the U.S. \u2013 which both declared victory in the wake of the ceasefire announcement \u2013 appeared to try to pressure each other. Semiofficial news agencies in Iran suggested forces have mined the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for the world\u2019s oil whose closure has proved Tehran\u2019s greatest strategic advantage in the conflict. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, warned that U.S. forces would hit Iran even harder than before if it did not fulfill the agreement.<\/p>\n

But what that agreement is remains in deep dispute. Beyond whether Lebanon is included, there are questions over what will happen to Iran\u2019s stockpile of enriched uranium, how and when normal traffic will resume through the strait, and what happens to Iran\u2019s ability to launch missile attacks in the future.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s critics question how the U.S. is better off after war with Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

The chief of Iran\u2019s nuclear agency said protecting Tehran\u2019s right to enrich uranium is \u201cnecessary\u201d for any ceasefire talks with the United States.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Eslami, who leads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, made the remarks Thursday to journalists, including one from The Associated Press, during commemorations for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a part of the necessary [things] that nobody speaks about,\u201d Eslami said, referring to the U.S. refusal to acknowledge enrichment as one part of Iran\u2019s 10-point plan for a permanent ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Iran are due to meet in Pakistan for talks this weekend.<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes on Lebanon threaten ceasefire<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said at least 203 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in widespread Israeli strikes in central Beirut and other areas of Lebanon on Wednesday, when Israel intensified its attacks on the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, which joined the war in support of Tehran.<\/p>\n

The death toll was the highest for a single day in Lebanon during more than five weeks of renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Israel said Thursday it killed Ali Yusuf Harshi, an aide to Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem. Hezbollah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has insisted that an end to the war in Lebanon was part of the ceasefire deal, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump said it was not.<\/p>\n

For Persian Gulf countries, the ceasefire has meant another day of missile strikes<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel will continue striking Hezbollah \u201cwith force, precision and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever acts against the citizens of Israel will be harmed,\u201d Netanyahu wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

A New York-based think tank warned the ceasefire \u201d hovers on the verge of collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if Lebanon was formally outside the deal, the scale of Israel\u2019s strikes was likely to be viewed as escalatory, nonetheless,\u201d the Soufan Center wrote in an analysis. \u201cIsrael\u2019s strikes can be understood both as an effort to drive a wedge between Iran and its proxies and as a response to being allegedly sidelined in the original ceasefire discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency reported Thursday that an Israeli strike overnight had killed at least seven people in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military did not immediately acknowledge the strike.<\/p>\n

Lebanese civilians described the ‘very terrifying’ moments when Israeli air strikes pounded the capital city. <\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n

Oil prices remain high amid uncertainty over Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n

Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the strait during the war \u2013 a message that may be intended to pressure the U.S.<\/p>\n

The chart, released by the ISNA news agency and Tasnim, showed a large circle marked \u201cdanger zone\u201d in Farsi over the route ships take through the strait, through which 20 per cent of all traded oil and natural gas once passed.<\/p>\n

Only a trickle of ships have passed through the strait since the war began after a few were attacked and Iran threatened to hit any that it deemed connected to the U.S. or Israel. Ships appeared to continue to avoid the strait Wednesday, despite the ceasefire: Data from Kpler showed only four vessels with their trackers on passed through.<\/p>\n

The chart suggested ships travel through waters closer to Iran\u2019s mainland near Larak Island, a route that some ships were observed taking during the war. It was dated from Feb. 28 until April 9, and it was unclear if the Guard had cleared any mines since then.<\/p>\n

Analysis: Iran ceasefire reveals a world transformed<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, told the BBC on Thursday that his country will allow ships to pass through the strait in accordance with \u201cinternational norms and international law\u201d once the United States ends its \u201caggression\u201d in the Middle East and Israel stops attacking Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The strait\u2019s de facto closure has caused oil prices to skyrocket \u2013 raising, in turn, the cost of gasoline, food and other basics far beyond the Middle East. Oil prices fell on news of the ceasefire Wednesday, but began to climb as uncertainty over the deal grew.<\/p>\n

The spot price of Brent crude, the international standard, was around US$98 Thursday \u2013 up about 35 per cent since the war began.<\/p>\n

Trump warned that U.S. warships and troops will remain around Iran \u201cuntil such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it is not, \u201cthen the \u2018Shootin\u2019 Starts,\u2019 bigger, and better,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media message.<\/p>\n

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Government supporters gather to mark the 40th day since the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.Vahid Salemi\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Peace talks expected in Pakistan<\/p>\n

The White House said that Vice-President JD Vance would lead the U.S. delegation for talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the war, which are set to start Saturday.<\/p>\n

There appear to be many points of disagreement to address, including whether Iran will be allowed to formalize a system of charging ships to use the strait that it has instituted. That would upend decades of precedent treating it as an international waterway that was free to transit.<\/p>\n

Opinion: Trump\u2019s botched war in Iran hands a brutal regime a new lease on life<\/a><\/p>\n

The fate of Iran\u2019s missile and nuclear programs \u2013 the elimination of which were major objectives for the U.S. and Israel in going to war \u2013 also remained unclear. The U.S. insists Iran must never be able to build nuclear weapons and wants to remove Tehran\u2019s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which could be used to build them, should it choose to pursue the bomb. Iran insists its program is peaceful.<\/p>\n

Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would work with Iran to remove the buried uranium, though Iran did not confirm that. In one version of the deal that Iran published, it said it would be allowed to continue enrichment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-592588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-headlines","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-northwest-territories","40":"tag-nova-scotia","41":"tag-nunavut","42":"tag-ontario","43":"tag-pei","44":"tag-photos","45":"tag-political-news","46":"tag-political-opinion","47":"tag-politics","48":"tag-politics-news","49":"tag-quebec","50":"tag-sports-news","51":"tag-technology","52":"tag-top-news","53":"tag-top-stories","54":"tag-topnews","55":"tag-topstories","56":"tag-travel","57":"tag-trudeau","58":"tag-us-news","59":"tag-world-news","60":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}