🚨BREAKING:
🇱🇧🇮🇱🇮🇷Israel carries out first airstrike on Beirut since Iran attack
The IDF claimed it was targeting Hezbollah insfrastructure, but the timing of the attack is raising eyebrows.
Trump is expecting a peace deal to be signed today between the U.S and Iran, but Tehran has made it very clear that attacks on Beirut are a red line.
The last time Israel hit the city, Iran launched missiles at Israel and U.S bases in the region.
Now Netanyahu has just given Iranian hardliners every reason they needed not to sign the agreement.
Source: Al Jazeera, Geopol Watch (on Telegram) / Writer: Ian
🇮🇱🇮🇷🇱🇧 A defence analyst says Israel is ready to sign onto a truce with Hezbollah, but only as one piece of a much bigger U.S-Iran deal, and even then he doesn't see it holding.
The logic is simple enough. Israel isn't really chasing a quiet border, it wants Iran's nuclear programme shut down for good and Tehran cutting loose the proxies on its doorstep, Hezbollah and Hamas included, so a ceasefire that doesn't deliver that is really just a pause with a nicer name.
Wolfgang Pusztai: "I wouldn't bet that this will be a lasting ceasefire."
He's just as blunt on the rest of the Israeli wish list, saying they have been lobbying hard for the nuclear programme to go and maybe even regime change, "but they can certainly forget about that," and he doubts Iran will ever swallow the demand to drop its proxies either.
All of which lands as Trump says a U.S-Iran deal is due to be signed today, which is exactly why the Hezbollah piece suddenly matters again.
This buys time, and in this region time is just the space between two wars.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniyal