Breaking News US and Israel War Against Iran

For three months, President Trump has been deeply engaged in the Iran conflict, planning the 38 days of attack, struggling to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and proclaiming “a whole civilization will die tonight,” then backing away to declare a ceasefire and a naval blockage of Iranian ports.

But on Monday, after days of haggling with Iranian officials through intermediaries on a preliminary agreement, Mr. Trump declared it was starting “to get very boring.”

“I don’t care if they’re over, honestly,” he told Eamon Javier’s of CNBC when asked about reports that the Iranians, angry at continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon and low-level conflict with the United States in the Persian Gulf, were threatening to stop negotiating. “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over.”
 
At a United Nations emergency Security Council meeting on Monday, diplomats were nearly unanimous — with the exception of the United States — in calling for Israel to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon and refrain from threatened escalatory attacks on the country.

The meeting, requested by France, took place on a day of turmoil in Lebanon, with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes, shelters overfilling and a sense of panic because Israel had threatened to imminently attack the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital. A day earlier, Israel had moved deeper into Lebanon’s southern territory, inciting alarm and fear of an expanding military occupation.
 
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, warned in an interview with Al Mayadeen, a private Lebanese broadcaster, that any attack on the Lebanese capital of Beirut would be “clear aggression” and would lead to the full resumption of the war. President Trump intervened this week to persuade Israel to back away from a threatened attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel’s fight againsts the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has complicated efforts to end the broader war.

Iran has insisted a peace deal with the United States and Israel include an end to Israel’s offensive in Lebanon. “We do not see the fate of Iran’s war with the United States and Israel as separate from the fate of the war in Lebanon,” he said. “They are interconnected.” The United States has tried to separate the two issues.
 
Speaking to reporters, President Trump did not directly answer the question when he was asked if the United States’ cease-fire with Iran was still holding. He instead offered a meandering answer that appeared to explore the two countries’ perspectives. “There is a reason for certain things, and there’s usually a reason that sometimes makes sense,” he said. “We got it, we nipped it in the bud very quickly, as we do with the greatest military in the world, but some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason. So they were reciprocating.”

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