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\nIsrael’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts a missile near the Israel-Lebanon border<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has said that negotiators were in the “final throes” of talks for a peace deal in the Middle East, after Iran and Israel halted fresh hostilities that threatened to reignite the months-long war.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump has repeatedly said that a peace agreement with Tehran is imminent, but diplomacy has stalled and the two sides have traded fire despite a ceasefire in place since 8 April.<\/p>\n
Iran and Israel “were going back and forth and now they both agreed through me to stop and we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” he told reporters on his return from an NBA Finals game.<\/p>\n
Asked whether it would be matter of days or weeks, he said it would take “two or three days”.<\/p>\n
Tehran has repeatedly stated any deal should include Lebanon – where Israel has been pressing its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah – and fired missiles at Israel on Sunday.<\/p>\n
That prompted Israeli retaliation, despite US pressure for restraint.<\/p>\n
Iran fired another salvo before announcing it was ceasing military action, and hours later Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the “fire on that front is contained”.<\/p>\n
Tehran said yesterday that it would attack again if Israel persisted with its strikes in Lebanon, while Mr Netanyahu warned in turn that should Iran “make the mistake of resuming attacks against us, we will respond with full force”.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz insisted that the campaign in Lebanon would carry on regardless and said Israel would strike the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut in retaliation for each attack on northern Israel by the militant group.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump, who has reportedly grown increasingly exasperated with Mr Netanyahu, had earlier urged both sides to stop “shooting” and said that “final negotiations” towards peace would proceed “subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way”.<\/p>\n
The Israeli premier, though, said in a televised statement he had told Mr Trump that “Israel has a full right to self-defence, and we are exercising it as required”.<\/p>\n
According to Axios news outlet, Israel was preparing for a major wave of strikes on Iran before Mr Trump personally called Mr Netanyahu and urged him to stop.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,'” Mr Trump told Axios.
US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News yesterday that while the United States and Israel shared interests, their positions did not always align.<\/p>\n
“The Israelis and the United States, we have a lot of shared interests,” Mr Vance said. “But we also have some situations where our interests diverge.”<\/p>\n
Deadly strikes in Lebanon<\/p>\n
Iran fired nearly 30 missiles at Israel, according to the Israeli military, and Israel targeted military sites in the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n
No casualties have been reported in either Israel or Iran after the exchange of fire.<\/p>\n
But violence continued in southern Lebanon yesterday, with an Israeli strike killing five people in the city of Tyre while another in the Nabatieh district left seven dead and a third in Marwanieh killed two, the Lebanese health ministry said.<\/p>\n
\nIsrael’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts a missile near the Israel-Lebanon border<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it had identified projectiles launched towards its soldiers operating in southern Lebanon, some of which were intercepted while one landed near troops without causing casualties.<\/p>\n
It later said that a “suspicious aerial target” from Yemen had been intercepted without any reported injuries.<\/p>\n
Calm in Tehran<\/p>\n
There was little sign of any return to war in Tehran, with caf\u00e9 terraces packed.<\/p>\n
Traffic seemed lighter than usual for a weekday, suggesting that some people had stayed home and there were also many more people queueing at petrol stations.<\/p>\n
Residents of Tel Aviv meanwhile went to shelters as sirens went off.<\/p>\n
Iranian news agencies reported early this morning that the capital’s international airport – shut down over the renewed missile launches – had reopened, allowing flights carrying hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to land.<\/p>\n