{"id":530697,"date":"2026-07-08T05:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:18:14","slug":"u-s-launches-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-hitting-more-than-80-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530697\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Launches &#8216;Retaliatory Strikes&#8217; Against Iran, Hitting More Than 80 Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Iran&#8217;s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Wednesday that the &#8220;era of bullying and extortion is over&#8221; and that Iran does not &#8220;fold&#8221; in the face of military action.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Qalibaf made the comments in a post on X, hours after the <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/iran\/2026-07-08\/ty-article\/u-s-launches-new-strikes-against-iran-after-three-ships-hit-in-strait-of-hormuz\/0000019f-3ef5-d2da-adbf-7fff16b30000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. launched what it called retaliatory strikes on 80 targets <\/a>across Iran and revoked a license allowing the country to sell oil after three tankers were hit by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, putting pressure on an already fragile cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Qalibaf accused the U.S. and Israel of major violations of the recently signed war-ending memorandum of understanding (MoU). He specifically cited U.S. strikes on southern Iran, the reinstatement of oil sanctions, threats of further strikes and American violations of &#8220;Iranian adjustments&#8221; in the Strait of Hormuz as direct breaches of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Qalibaf also pointed to continued Israeli aggression in Lebanon as an MoU violation, warning that Iran will not proceed with further peace negotiations until the initial terms of the framework are fully honored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet-body_root__VQlaw\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"auto\">Major MOU Violations by the US:<\/p>\n<p>Violating Iranian adjustments in the Strait<\/p>\n<p>Persistent threats of further strikes<\/p>\n<p>Reinstating oil sanctions<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on southern Iran<\/p>\n<p>Continued Zionist aggression on\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udde7<\/p>\n<p>The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don\u2019t fold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mb_ghalibaf\/status\/2074681304625369519\" class=\"xa2wdgl xk50ysn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Show more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Wednesday that the &#8220;era of bullying and extortion is over&#8221; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,51,86,1031,85,99446,46,9152,1513,43],"class_list":["post-530697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-iran-u-s","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530697","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=530697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}