Iran’s IRGC says the Strait of Hormuz is closed over Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon that have killed at least 32 people since dawn.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has told Al Jazeera Tehran is “ready to move forward” on diplomacy with Washington, but the US must ensure Israel abides by the terms of the deal to end the war.
Hezbollah just killed 4 Israeli soldiers.
Israel left the Sinai, left southern Lebanon, offered up the Golan, left Gaza.
Got shot at from the Sinai, shot at from Lebanon, invaded from Gaza and shot at from the Golan.
Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks on Lebanon. But the US military claimed 55 merchant ships transited the waterway despite Iran’s closure.
US President Donald Trump says there will be no tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, unless they are collected by his own country.
She marched up there with her hand on her hip like a flirt in a bar begging for attention. She thought he was gonna give her a big hug.
Her ignored her. When President Trump asked for help she refused. He didn’t need the picture, she did.
And when she didn’t get her way, she turned on Trump again:
Trump: If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it would blow Italy up in two minutes Meloni: As far as I know up to now, nine nations possess nuclear weapons and only one has used it. That one is the United States of America.
President Trump wouldn’t endorse Marjorie Green for a senate seat, so now she’s a Sh*t Poster Extraordinaire on X.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has told Al Jazeera Tehran is “ready to move forward” on diplomacy with Washington, but the United States must ensure Israel abides by the terms of the deal to end the war.
A US official tells the Reuters news agency that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon after Israeli attacks killed at least 47 people.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the US has a “commitment and responsibility” to end the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, as the deal stipulates.
THE USEFUL IDIOTS
A useful idiot is a political term for someone who is used to advance an agenda without understanding that they are being used.
Want to see useful idiots in action?
Just read the comment sections whenever Israel, Jews, Iran, or Palestine are mentioned.
People convinced they are standing for peace and justice, while unknowingly promoting agendas that would gladly silence the very freedoms they enjoy.
That is what the term “useful idiot” was created to describe
The Israeli army has issued a forced displacement order for residents of eight towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
Whatever happens in the deal to be made — or not made — between Iran and the United States, Israel will not allow itself to be blocked in pursuit of its aim to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Here’s a quick look at the latest developments:
A senior spokesperson for Iran’s armed forces has warned that any resumption of US and Israeli air strikes on the country would meet a “heavier” and “stronger” retaliation.
Israel has launched intensified attacks on Lebanon, striking Khirbet Selm in the country’s south as well as the town of Mashghara, in the eastern Bekaa region, after rounds of forced evacuation orders.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu has doubled down on his threat to hit Hezbollah and Lebanon harder after a meeting of his security cabinet.
Hezbollah says it has attacked Israeli troops and military vehicles in southern Lebanon, as the Israeli army pushes deeper into Lebanese territory.
Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref confirms the country has taken the “first step” towards restoring full internet access after a weeks-long shutdown amid the war.
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NBC News is reporting that Trump told them in a phone interview that he spoke with Israel earlier today and asked them to agree to the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to renew their ceasefire, the Reuters news agency reports, citing a top United States official, even as Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon continue, killing at least 47 people since midnight.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has denounced Israel’s latest attacks in Lebanon, saying Israel’s “continued war-making” would have “serious and immediate consequences”.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also says planned meeting with US officials in Switzerland as part of the deal to end the war has been postponed, and the two sides could meet “in the coming days”.
US President Donald Trump says Iran agreed to the deal “out of desperation”, adding that Tehran will “get no money, not ten cents”.
Avichay Adraee, the Arabic-language spokesman for the Israeli military, said on Thursday that Israeli forces “struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets across various areas of Lebanon, including the Bekaa Valley and Nabatieh.
“Hezbollah violated the cease-fire in an attempt to prevent our forces from completing the destruction of capabilities it had built over many years, and we responded with force,” Adraee said.
The Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah insisted they had not “violated the cease-fire,” instead accusing Israel of “intensifying their cease-fire violations, committing massacres, and continuing to try to infiltrate areas and villages they were unable to reach before.”
Later on Thursday evening, Hezbollah admitted attacking Israeli units as they were advancing on a hill south of Nabatieh. The Israeli military said four of its soldiers were killed in the attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israeli forces will “remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary to protect communities in the north.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on Thursday that he would be cutting ties with the office of E.U. High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas “until she retracts the blood libel she directed at the world’s only Jewish state.”
Dozens of senior Iranian officials and military commanders were eliminated during Operation Epic Fury, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the second Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Regime change is a necessity and Trump will accomplish that after the midterms.
“The scale of these targeted killings is striking. Together they represent a substantial portion of the upper tiers of Iran’s military and security leadership,” opposition website Iran International noted, adding that leadership of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was hit especially hard.
An Iranian man walks past a banner depicting Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei at Valiasr Square in Tehran on June 15, 2026. The United States and Iran agreed a peace deal and an “immediate and permanent” end to military operations on all fronts including Lebanon, mediator Pakistan said, signaling the apparent end to more than three months of war in Middle East.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said Thursday that he authorized a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States despite his own reservations after receiving assurances from senior Iranian officials that the agreement would protect Tehran’s interests.
President Donald Trump at the G-7 meeting and afterward has provided the world with his thoughts on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran. It was quite a performance. He praised Qatar, the Arab state that provides financial support to Hamas and refuge for the terror group’s senior leaders. Trump, addressing the Qataris, proclaimed that “I will always be your friend.” He denounced Israel, claiming that Israel’s strikes against the jihad group nearly broke the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran. “Why did Bibi have to do a f—ing attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no f—ing judgement,” Trump raged.
This agreement allows for hundreds of billions of dollars to flow to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even more in sanctions relief, in exchange for two months of an open Strait of Hormuz and promises that are just as empty now as they were ten years ago….
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the decline of European NATO as a warfighting organisation has mirrored the continent’s crisis of faith in itself and the open borders era, telling a meeting of alliance leaders they now need to step up if they want America to keep contributing.
Hegseth appeared to make implicit that the U.S. would be reconsidering its deployment in Europe at the end of this six months and decisions would be based on which countries made solid guarantees on access to bases and overflight rights, and on which countries show that credible path to making their alliance spending commitments five per cent of GDP on defence investment.
US Vice President JD Vance has said that the 60-day negotiating period between Tehran and Washington has begun today and the blockade of Iran’s ports has been lifted.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian have electronically signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war.
Israel kills three people in Lebanon as it continues its invasion of the south, despite the inclusion of an end to its occupation in the US-Iran interim agreement.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has hailed the agreement as a “big victory” and said Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel should be limited to “mutual security” and not the armed group’s disarmament.
The right has reached a verdict on President Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, and the verdict is rage. Ben Shapiro went on Fox News and called the agreement “a disaster.” Erick Erickson, who spent the war defending it, pronounced the deal “an American surrender.” Sen. Ted Cruz warned that handing “billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea” and accused the president of receiving bad advice once again. The hawks are convinced their man capitulated to the mullahs.
Read the financial terms closely and the alarm starts to look misplaced. The Treasury does not terminate sanctions under the memo; it issues waivers, and a waiver is a thing that can be withdrawn as easily as it was granted.
Iran’s frozen funds are not handed over in a duffel bag; their release runs through procedures still to be negotiated. The headline $300 billion that has the commentariat in a froth is not American money at all. As ZeroHedge laid out in detail, it is a proposed private investment fund, financed by Gulf states and multinational firms rather than the U.S. Treasury, and it functions only if sanctions relief, banking access, and a durable settlement actually materialize. Until Iran performs, the pledged capital is, by the fund’s own logic, theoretical.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed for the ‘preservation’ of Israel’s relationship with the US. Earlier, US Vice President JD Vance had criticised Israel for its actions in Lebanon and rebuked members of the Israeli cabinet for their criticism of Trump’s deal.
United States President Donald Trump says the memorandum of understanding with Iran that is to be signed on Friday is not final and warns of a return to “dropping bombs” if he “doesn’t like it”.
Iran has accused Israel of violating the truce in Lebanon 84 times since it reached the agreement with the US and warns of a “harsh response” if attacks continue.
The warning comes after Israeli forces killed four people in southern Lebanon, and Trump criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he has to be “more responsible” in Lebanon.
A third tanker carrying Iranian oil has sailed past the US navy’s blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, according to TankerTrackers.
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on Monday welcomed the emerging U.S.-Iran understanding aimed at ending hostilities while asserting that peace poses a greater threat to the survival of the Islamic Republic than military confrontation.
The Houthis in Yemen have generated a lot of news headlines since the Gaza war began, lobbing missiles into Israel and causing serious problems for international maritime traffic by attacking ships transiting the Bab-el-Mandeb off southern Yemen.
The Houthis (whose official name is now Ansar Allah) are a Shi’ite movement backed by Iran. They came into prominence during the Yemeni Revolution in 2011, which was an adjunct of the “Arab Spring” that had already swept Tunisia and Egypt. Their principal Sunni rivals within the radical Islamic ferment in Yemen were Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
With assistance from Iran, the Houthis took over about a third of Yemeni territory, including the capital, Sana’a. Their stronghold is in southern Yemen, adjacent to the Red Sea, which is why they have been able to do so much damage to ships travelling to or from the Suez Canal.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says a “peace deal” between US and Iran has been reached and is “now in place” with the signing ceremony scheduled for Friday in Switzerland.
President Donald Trump confirmed that a peace deal with Iran was “complete,” and added that the Strait of Hormuz was re-opening, and that the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the strait would come to an end.
Israel has renewed air attacks on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, despite a “ceasefire”.
US President Donald Trump says the attack “should not have happened”, once again adding that “we are very close to a deal”.
Iranian media says Tehran “not yet taken a final decision” on the framework agreement amid reports Qatari negotiators have flown to Iran in a bid to help conclude the deal.
Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will “open to all” once the deal is signed and claims the US will eventually get Iran’s nuclear material.
The US president has told The New York Times that the final deal with Iran would limit Tehran to enriching uranium to low levels that “could never be used by the military”.
