Hezbollah Agrees to Stop Firing on Israel
President Donald Trump on Monday announced that the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah had “agreed that all shooting will stop.” In another social media post, Trump said he also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that Israel will stop its push to enter Beirut in pursuit of fighters based in the Lebanese capital.
Trump’s comments emerged after Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, from where Hezbollah previously fired rockets at northern Israel, including the outskirts of the country’s third largest city, Haifa.
A joint statement by Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the orders to attack targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs followed what they called repeated violations of the ceasefire by Hezbollah and “attacks against our cities and citizens.”
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated Monday that any ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran is a “ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon.” “Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts,” he wrote in a post on X, according to a translation from Persian.
The successful ceasefire between Iran and Israel is now in its ninth week.
In a CNBC interview, the president said that oil and gas prices would drop soon, although he did not give a timelime.
“I think the oil will be dropping like a rock in the very near, you know, the very near distance,” Trump said, adding that Americans who understand the importance of Iran not being able to obtain a nuclear weapon—a key demand of his administration—are “willing to pay a little bit more” for gas.
Since the start of fighting in February, Iran has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy supplies and driving up the price of oil around the world with far-reaching consequences. A cargo ship came under attack off Iraq Monday afternoon, the UK military said.
On Monday, the United States said that its military bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. military says it shot down.
Trump said in an early-morning post that he believes Iran still “wants to make a deal” despite the fresh attacks, and criticized politicians who have made comments about his administration’s talks with Tehran.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
–The Epoch Times
