Iranian lawmaker says Tehran will respond ‘painfully’ to Israel’s attack on south Beirut
Iranian legislator Ibrahim Rezai A post on Twitter on Sunday said Tehran would respond “painfully” to Israel’s attack on Beirut’s Dahiyah southern suburb, after the Israeli military said it had attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.
“We will give a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime’s attack on Dahiyah,” he wrote, adding, “The mad dogs must be disciplined and put back in their place.”
He said, “Look at the sky over the occupied land tonight.”
Trump also said that he and the Israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu Despite some disagreements that emerged over Israel’s military strike in Lebanon, they remained on the same page during their Meet the Press interview.
“We get along very well,” Trump said. “We’ve been great comrades. We attacked a certain country in very, very large numbers, which was nothing but trouble for 47 years. I disagree with him on some things.”
Earlier in the week, it was reported that Trump had spoken angrily to Netanyahu over Israel’s threats to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Donald Trump also aggressively rejected claims that he broke a key campaign promise to keep the US out of new foreign conflicts.
“Okay, well, first of all, I didn’t guarantee there wouldn’t be a war,” Trump said during a Meet the Press interview. “Why would I have created the strongest army in the world?”
He further said, “I did not make any promises. I do not like these endless wars. This is not an endless war. We have been doing this for three months.”
Trump actually campaigned on the promise that he would end wars rather than start them. During his 2024 election night victory speech, he said: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop a war.”
During the interview Trump also defended his military efforts in Venezuela and Iran, claiming that they would not be as long-lasting as the US efforts in Iraq and Vietnam.
“We’ve been there for a few months,” Trump said. “And the threat has largely ended. Soon, it will be over. But you can’t let Iran have nuclear weapons, or they’ll blow you up.”
Donald Trump calls for more “surgical” strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon And during his Meet the Press interview broadcast Sunday, he said he was not seeking to include the conflict in a peace deal with Iran.
“I want to see a more surgical strike on Hezbollah. I think it should be more surgical,” Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview recorded Friday. “I want to see Lebanon have a better life,” he said.
Asked if he was seeking to include Lebanon in the Iran deal, Trump replied: “No, no.”
He said, “Absolutely not. I’m not demanding.” “I think they’d like to see it, but I’m not demanding it.”
Trump has previously said he would like to “separate” discussions on Lebanon from negotiations on a deal with Iran. However, Tehran wants to add to the conflicts.
Iranian lawmaker says Tehran will respond ‘painfully’ to Israel’s attack on south Beirut
Iranian legislator Ibrahim Rezai A post on Twitter on Sunday said Tehran would respond “painfully” to Israel’s attack on Beirut’s Dahiyah southern suburb, after the Israeli military said it had attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.
“We will give a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime’s attack on Dahiyah,” he wrote, adding, “The mad dogs must be disciplined and put back in their place.”
He said, “Look at the sky over the occupied land tonight.”
Gaza’s health ministry said in its latest update that at least ten people were killed and 36 others were wounded in Israeli strikes across the territory the previous day.
The health ministry says 961 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since a so-called ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect in October 2025.
It said 72,971 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza since October 2023, when Israel launched its attack on the territory following a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 and took 251 hostage.
At least two killed in Israeli attack on south Beirut – report
At least two people were killed and 11 others were wounded in the first Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs (see initial post), according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, citing preliminary casualty figures. We have not yet been able to independently verify these figures.
IDF orders residents of Lebanon’s fifth-largest city to evacuate ahead of attacks
The Israeli military has ordered residents of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the surrounding “camps” (al-Bass and Zakuk al-Mufdi) and the “surrounding areas” shown on the map below to immediately evacuate ahead of an attack on the locations.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichai Adrai, issued a warning on social media, claiming that the attacks were being launched by Hezbollah in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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International law experts say Israel’s warnings are inconsistent and often overly broad and open-ended. Many times no warning is given before air strikes. More than one million people have already been displaced by the renewed Israeli war on Lebanon, creating a major refugee and humanitarian crisis.
US says it destroyed two drones over the Strait of Hormuz
In a post on X earlier today, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it destroyed two Iranian drones that “were threatening international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz”, just hours after announcing that it struck four other drones and coastal surveillance radar sites.
“U.S. forces stand ready to continue defending against Iranian aggression,” CENTCOM said in a brief statement. It was the latest in a series of attacks that have strained an April cease-fire between Tehran and Washington and come amid stalled talks between the two sides, with neither apparently willing to make any major concessions.
Soon after the US and Israel launched war on Iran in late February, Tehran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz – at least to countries it deemed “hostile” to its interests. The US imposed a retaliatory blockade on ships using Iranian ports on 13 April.
The effective closure of the strategic waterway, a vital corridor for oil and natural gas shipments, has resulted in rising global energy prices.
Trump says he will not seize Iran’s assets before a peace deal
Donald Trump had an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, which host Kristen Welker said took place on Friday.
In the interview, Trump said he would not freeze Iranian assets or lift any sanctions before reaching a peace deal. “Comes later,” he said. “Yes. If they behave, if they do good work, then we start talking. Yes.”
Trump also said he was not demanding that Lebanon be part of any short-term deal with Tehran.
The US President also reportedly said he wanted to keep US troops in the Middle East until “it’s done” and that the US would seize and destroy Iran’s highly enriched uranium, much of which is believed to be stored extremely deep underground.
He said the US and Iran are close to reaching an agreement, which he often reiterates despite major issues between the two sides: notably Israel’s ongoing war on Lebanon, Tehran’s nuclear program and the status of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
“We are very close to a deal, otherwise I would kill them,” Trump told NBC News.
Israel had already attacked the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital at least twice since the first agreement between Lebanon and Israel came into force as part of an April 17 ceasefire, under which Washington sought to prevent Israel from attacking Beirut in exchange for a halt to Hezbollah fire toward northern Israel.
Today’s attacks on Beirut are likely to derail US peace talks with Iran as Tehran has made clear that Israel’s attacks on Lebanon must stop to end that conflict.
Despite being engaged in diplomacy with Lebanon, Israel is attacking southern Lebanon and ordering mass evacuations on an almost daily basis.
Hezbollah, which has not been part of direct negotiations with Israel, has fired rockets and drones against Israeli troops in northern Israel and southern Lebanon as it rejects Israeli efforts to disarm it and annex parts of southern Lebanon.
US President Donald Trump spoke angrily to Netanyahu over Israel’s threats to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs during a heated phone call last Monday, according to a report by Axios. However, it appears that despite the US’s far superior military power, Trump is somewhat limited in his ability to influence Netanyahu’s military actions.
At least 3,526 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the war began on March 2, according to the country’s health ministry. Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon began in response to Hezbollah firing rockets at northern Israel following the assassination of the former Iranian supreme leader by the US and Israel in Tehran on February 28.
Israel attacks Beirut’s southern suburbs despite ceasefire deal with Lebanon
We are seeing reports of Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyah, where at least three explosions have been heard so far. The Israeli military claimed, without providing evidence, in a post on Twitter about an hour earlier that it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure in the Lebanese capital.
In a joint statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israeli forces had earlier attacked a “terrorist” headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut in apparent retaliation for Hezbollah’s firing toward northern Israel. This is a clear disregard of the US request not to attack the Lebanese capital.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli strikes targeted two apartments in two buildings in the southern suburbs, where there is strong support for the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah. There has been no official confirmation of any casualties or injuries.
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