{"id":499470,"date":"2026-06-18T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499470\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:57:20","slug":"irans-military-threatens-israel-should-expect-a-harsh-response-if-southern-lebano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499470\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s military threatens: Israel ‘should expect a harsh response’ if southern Lebano"},"content":{"rendered":"

The emergency command of Iran\u2019s armed forces, Khatam al-Anbiya, threatened Tuesday evening that if Israel continues to strike in southern Lebanon<\/a>, \u201cit should expect a harsh response\u201d from Iran\u2019s military forces. The threat came after a series of IDF strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, which reports said killed four people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Israeli army has violated the ceasefire in southern Lebanon 84 times over the past two days, continues to commit crimes and kill the oppressed Lebanese people after the U.S. president declared the end of the war. We warn that if the Israeli army does not stop its evil in southern Lebanon, it should expect a harsh response from our forces,\u201d the Iranian statement said. <\/p>\n

Iran has consistently insisted on linking its own front and its agreement with the United States to the fighting in Lebanon. It directly attacked Israel last week after Israel struck Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Dahieh<\/a>, in an attempt to create a new \u201cequation.\u201d It nearly attacked again after Israel\u2019s strike in Dahieh on Sunday, but refrained after President Donald Trump dramatically accelerated contacts with Tehran and effectively promised it greater benefits, which led Iran to agree to forgo a strike and sign the memorandum of understanding.<\/a><\/p>\n

Following Iran\u2019s insistence, and with American consent, that memorandum of understanding includes a clause that explicitly refers to ending the war in Lebanon as well. Iran also demanded an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that Israel would not withdraw and would continue to defend itself against Hezbollah. It remains unclear, however, to what extent the agreement will constrain Israel, especially when it comes to strikes against future military buildup rather than immediate threats.<\/p>\n

The damage after the attack in Mifodon on Tuesday morning<\/p>\n

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IDF strikes continued Tuesday in several areas of southern Lebanon, and in its official statement, the military stressed that the attacks were intended to remove a threat. \u201c, the Israeli Air Force intercepted several rockets that were launched by the Hezbollah terrorist organization toward the area in which IDF soldiers are operating in southern Lebanon. No sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol,\u201d the IDF Spokesperson\u2019s Unit said earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cShortly afterward, the Israeli Air Force struck and dismantled the launcher from which some of the rockets were fired toward IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon,” the statement conitnued. “Additionally, earlier today (Tuesday), the IDF identified a suspicious vehicle in the area where IDF soldiers are operating in southern Lebanon and fired a warning shot toward it, and later conducted a strike in the area to remove the threat.”<\/p>\n

The Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese channel Al-Manar reported at midday on a drone strike in al-Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon. Shortly afterward, additional Israeli drone strikes were reported in the nearby villages of Mifdoun and Shoukin, also in southern Lebanon. Al-Mayadeen reported that four people were killed and several others wounded in the strikes on those two villages.<\/p>\n

Documentation of attack on launcher in southern Lebanon<\/p>\n

(Video: IDF spokespersons unit)<\/p>\n

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Trump himself also addressed the Lebanon issue Tuesday, again criticizing Netanyahu over the strikes in Lebanon while implicitly confirming Iran\u2019s linkage between the arenas. \u201cI am not happy with the way Israel has acted toward Lebanon and toward Hezbollah,\u201d Trump said at the G7 summit in France. \u201cThey should have finished that job faster. It just goes on and on and on. And when that happens, it casts a negative shadow over the big deal, and the big deal is the agreement with Iran,\u201d he said, though in the same breath he insisted: \u201cWhen you ask me about Bibi \u2014 we have an exceptional relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also surprised observers when he said he had suggested that Syria, under Ahmed al-Sharaa, would handle Hezbollah well<\/a>. \u201cHe has done an amazing job unifying the country, and he is very firm against Hezbollah. He does not like them,\u201d he said. \u201cIsrael has been fighting Hezbollah for too long, and too many people are being killed. You do not have to bring down a residential building every time you are looking for someone, because there are a lot of people in those buildings and not all of them are Hezbollah, I can tell you that. I suggested to Israel that Syria be allowed to handle Hezbollah, because frankly, I think they would do it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli officials expressed surprise at the remarks. \u201cIt is unclear what he meant,\u201d they said. \u201cIt sounds like virtual reality. Hezbollah no longer exists in Syria, except for a few individuals who may be hiding. Syria will not act in Lebanon against Hezbollah; it is beyond its capacity. The only thing Syria can contribute is preventing smuggling from Iran through Iraq and Syria into Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergency command of Iran\u2019s armed forces, Khatam al-Anbiya, threatened Tuesday evening that if Israel continues to strike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-499470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}