The truce shattered after two months. Iran and Israel launched reciprocal attacks on the night of Sunday June 7 to Monday June 8 after the Islamic Republic fired missiles towards Israeli territory. This is the first time that Iran has launched missiles against Israel since the April 8 ceasefire.
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After several hours of missile exchanges, Iran announced at the beginning of the afternoon the end of its military operation against Israel, after a message from Donald Trump urging the two countries to stop « immédiatement » their reciprocal attacks.
• Iran targets Israel in missile attack
On Sunday evening, Iran fired six salvos of missiles against Israel, approximatelyabout 30 missiles“, according to an Israeli military official cited by AFP. Tehran presented these attacks as a “Warning”in retaliation for an Israeli bombing on the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of the pro-Iranian Islamist movement Hezbollah, despite a truce theoretically concluded between Lebanon and Israel but widely flouted. Ali Safari, advisor to Iranian diplomacy, affirmed that the missile launches had taken place “After more than a month of restraint in the face of repeated violations of the ceasefire†from Israel, which has, in recent days, extended its offensive against Hezbollah.
Iran also declared that it would strike the military bases of Nevatim (south) and Tol Nof (center) in Israel. « L’opération a été menée en réponse à l’attaque de missiles perpétrée par le régime ziónisteÂ[…] against several radar sites located in three different locations » in Iran, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement.
• Israel fires back
Early Monday morning, Iranian state television reported explosions in Tehran and the cities of Tabriz (northwest) and Isfahan (center), as the Israeli army announced that its air force had bombed “Military targets belonging to the Iranian terrorist regime in the west and center of the country”.
Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said that Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites, as well as “infrastructure not linked to the energy sector”, had been targeted. “No self-respecting country would tolerate such an attackâ€hammered the diplomat on X, in reference to the missiles launched at Israel.
An Iranian regional leader, quoted by the Fars agency, reported this Monday that ““The Karoon petrochemical company in Mahshahr was targeted in an aerial attack and hit by projectiles fired by the Zionist enemy, which damaged part of the facilities.” The Israeli army, for its part, indicated having struck “multiple targets” in this petrochemical economic zone in southwest Iran. An attack that provoked retaliatory strikes from Iran “against similar industrial installations in Hafa”, warning Israel that attacking energy sites was “A dangerous game”.
The official Lebanese agency ANI also reported this Monday Israeli air strikes in the region of Tyre, a thousand-year-old city in the South.
• Iran announces ‘cessation of operation’ against Israel
After a night and a morning of strikes, Iran announced on Monday the end of its military operation against Israel, following a message from Donald Trump urging on Truth Social the two countries to stop « immédiatement » to shoot.
The command of the Iranian armed forces announced « la cessation de l’opération »après ce qu’il considère être “One severe riposte” in Israel. And the Iranian president, Massoud Pezeshkian, assures that he has not left “neither the battlefield nor the negotiating table”. Israel has not publicly reacted at this stage to the request from its American ally.
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• The fear of a regional conflagration
Monday morning, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, allies of Iran, claimed responsibility for an attack on Israel from Yemen and decreed a ban on Israeli navigation in the Red Sea, another strategic maritime route. Statements which, for a time, fueled fears of regional conflagration.
• The US-Iranian agreement at an impasse?
What will be the impact of this episode in the search for an agreement between the United States and Iran, a search which has been floundering for several weeks? Before the cessation of hostilities on the Iranian side, the United States ensured that this direct resumption of hostilities “I will be affected” the talks. Diplomatic negotiations via the Pakistani mediator are continuing, however, according to the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghaï.
The sequence also shows Donald Trump’s loss of influence over his Israeli ally. Indeed, according to the media Axios, Donald Trump spoke on Sunday evening with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so that Israel does not retaliate and that any signing of an agreement with Tehran is not put in danger. No official report has been released. “We are on the verge of reaching a final agreement with Iran. It will be a good match. I don’t want it to fall apart because of what’s happening now.”he said according to Axios journalist Barak Ravid, who said he spoke to him on the phone.
