Monday June 8, strikes between Israel and Iran resumed. After intercepting missiles coming from Iran on Sunday June 7, Israel responded by striking at least three cities in the country. The two countries accuse each other of having targeted petrochemical complexes. Shortly before 1:30 p.m., Iran announced that it would stop its missile attacks.
After a hundred days of war and two months of a fragile truce agreement, is a new conflagration to be feared in the region? These last hours have been marked by a resumption of the conflict between Israel and Iran. Sunday June 7, an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, suspected of being a Hezbollah stronghold, left at least two dead and around twenty injured, despite the ceasefire agreement between the two neighboring countries.
“Diplomatic consultations continue”
In retaliation, Iran, ally of Hezbollah, sent three salvos of missiles towards the Jewish state, setting off the country’s sirens. If all the Iranian missiles (around thirty), according to Le Monde, were intercepted by the Israeli anti-aircraft defense, all the schools in the country were closed this Monday. In response, the Israeli army struck Iran, targeting in particular the capital, Tehran, as well as the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz.
“Diplomatic consultations continue”
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, for their part, announced that they had hit an Israeli petrochemical complex, located in Haïfa, after Israel itself targeted the Mahshar petrochemical plant, in the south of Iran. Despite this escalation, the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghai, affirmed that the country was continuing talks with the United States with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement, reports BFMTV. “Diplomatic consultations naturally continue in all circumstances,” he said. Shortly before 1:30 p.m., Monday June 8, Iran announced that it would stop its strikes, announced several of our colleagues including TF1.
Donald Trump calls for restraint
According to the media Axios, Donald Trump, President of the United States, spoke on Sunday evening with Benjamin Netanyahu. The American head of state would have tried to dissuade him from retaliating so as not to endanger a possible agreement with Iran. “We are on the verge of reaching a final agreement with Iran. It will be a good agreement. I don’t want it to fall apart because of what is happening now,” he was quoted as saying. On Fox News, aimed at Iranian leaders, he also said: “You have fired your missiles, that’s enough. Return to the negotiating table and conclude an agreement.”
published on June 8 at 1:40 p.m., Enora Foricher, 6Medias
