{"id":586158,"date":"2026-04-15T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:05:09","slug":"iran-war-live-updates-trump-says-china-agrees-not-to-send-weapons-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586158\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war live updates: Trump says China agrees not to send weapons to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese were divided on Wednesday over their government\u2019s decision to pursue rare, direct negotiations with Israel in hopes of ending the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Some forced to flee their homes and communities in southern Lebanon say they believe Israel\u2019s ground invasion can only be stopped through military force, not diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand with the young men, the fighters, and those stationed on the border, and with whatever decision they make,\u201d said Mustafa Alaa Al-Din, now living in Beirut after being displaced from a southern border village. \u201cThese negotiations do not represent us \u2026 it\u2019s as if they never existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others said they support any initiative that promises to hasten the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negotiations are more in our interest than in Israel\u2019s interest, because we are the ones whose country is being destroyed, we are the ones suffering losses,\u201d said Mohamed Saad, a resident of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. \u201cWe are the ones out in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese were divided on Wednesday over their government\u2019s decision to pursue rare, direct negotiations with Israel in hopes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,228242,803,6009,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-586158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran-war","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jd-vance","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}