Iran suspends its operation against Israel, after first strikes since the truce

Iran announced, Monday June 8, the end of its military operation against Israel, after a message from Donald Trump urging the two countries to stop “immédiatement” their reciprocal attacks, the first since the truce concluded two months ago. Israel has not publicly reacted at this stage to the request from its American ally.

After 100 days of war and the entry into force on April 8 of a fragile ceasefire, explosions and alerts resounded again in Tehran or Tel Aviv, without any injuries being reported at this stage. Between Sunday evening and Monday noon, Iran fired around thirty missiles against Israel according to an Israeli military official, in response to an Israeli strike against the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of pro-Iranian Hezbollah, in which two people died and 20 were injured.

But at midday on Monday, the command of the Iranian armed forces announced “the cessation of the operation”après ce qu’il considère être “a severe response” in Israel. And the Iranian president, Massoud Pezeshkian, assures that he has not left “neither the battlefield nor the negotiating table”.

Donald Trump, who in recent days has not hidden his disagreements with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had just before banged his fist on the table. “Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting'”had urged on his Truth Social network the American president, who is looking for a way out of a very unpopular conflict in the United States, as the mid-term elections approach.