Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Netanyahu says US-Iran ceasefire ‘does not include Lebanon’



Netanyahu says US-Iran ceasefire ‘does not include Lebanon’

Israeli prime minister’s office welcomes US decision to suspend attacks on Iran, but says the two-week truce does not apply to Lebanon.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has announced that Israel backs the United States’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks, but said the truce “does not include Lebanon”.

In a statement on X on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel supported US President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure “Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat to America, Israel, Iran’s Arab neighbors and the world”.

He said the US has told Israel that it is committed to achieving these goals in the upcoming negotiations in Pakistan’s Islamabad on Friday.

But the two-week ceasefire “does not include Lebanon”, he added.

Netanyahu’s statement comes after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the US, Iran and their allies “have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”.

Sharif said the move was “effective immediately”.

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3 comments:

  1. Today, Israel carried out airstrikes against the "China-Iran Railway"—marking the first direct attack on the core interests of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

    This railway, which opened on June 3, 2025, was constructed with 40 billion RMB funding by China. It was designed to allow Iranian oil to bypass the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca, traveling directly to China—thereby saving 20 days in transit time—and serves as a strategic corridor intended to "break through 13 years of U.S. sanctions."

    https://x.com/bxieus/status/2041711938258821484?s=46&t=8K6fzabO3g6uaj4KxwSSjg

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