{"id":705224,"date":"2026-06-15T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:58:10","slug":"iran-and-us-agree-deal-to-end-war-as-trump-says-strait-of-hormuz-will-be-reopened-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705224\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and US agree deal to end war as Trump says Strait of Hormuz will be reopened &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Lebanon, people are sceptical of the US-Iran framework dealpublished at 09:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/51fa9ff5-f9e4-44dc-9cbc-5510b7a165fb.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Hugo Bachega<br \/>Middle East correspondent, reporting from Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A girl flashes the V-sign from a vehicle as displaced residents cross the Bourj Rahal bridge on their way to their village in southern Lebanon .\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fce333b6-d63d-4440-981e-a452f34c48f6.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Displaced families have been seen driving towards villages in southern Lebanon today, as some return to their homes<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanon is, again, hoping that a deal between the US and Iran would mean an end to the war between Israel and the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The morning appears to be calm in the south of the country, where Israel has carried out frequent air strikes, but people seem to be reacting to the announcement of a truce with caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Still, some families are starting to return to their communities, despite warnings from the authorities that it is not safe. In a video that is being circulated online, a group of displaced residents arrived in their village and found an Israeli tank blocking a street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran had insisted that any deal should also include Lebanon. This was crucial in strengthening Iran\u2019s image among Hezbollah\u2019s supporters, who have been deeply affected by the conflict, and in reinforcing Tehran\u2019s influence in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This came despite attempts by the Lebanese government to separate the two arenas, to curb that influence and, as a result, isolate Hezbollah even more, with the goal of disarming it, still elusive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Lebanon, the war has been catastrophic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 3,700 people have been killed; around 5% of its territory is under Israeli occupation and there is no timeline for any withdrawal; dozens of villages in the south have been destroyed and no-one knows who will pay for reconstruction, and one million people remain displaced, most of them Shia Muslims, which are the bulk of Hezbollah\u2019s support base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lebanese have reason to be sceptical. The ceasefire that ended the last war in 2024 did not bring peace. Israel continued to attack what it described as Hezbollah targets almost every day and many fear that, once the world\u2019s attention moves away from the region, this could be their reality again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here in Lebanon, people are sceptical of the US-Iran framework dealpublished at 09:13 BST 09:13 BST Hugo BachegaMiddle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-705224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705224","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=705224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}