{"id":49155,"date":"2026-06-09T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49155"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:42:09","slug":"iran-and-israel-say-they-will-pause-strikes-but-warn-of-retaliation-if-ceasefire-breached-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/iran-and-israel-say-they-will-pause-strikes-but-warn-of-retaliation-if-ceasefire-breached-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Israel say they will pause strikes but warn of retaliation if ceasefire breached again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC: Iran and Israel say they have halted attacks on each other, after the two countries exchanged fire for the first time since April’s truce.<\/p>\n

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his country was holding fire “at the moment”. But he stressed that the struggle against Iran and Hezbollah was “not finished”.<\/p>\n

It came hours after Iran’s armed forces said it had stopped operations following the delivery of a “painful response” to Israel.<\/p>\n

It promised “more severe and crushing measures” if Israel carried out more strikes, including in Lebanon, where Israeli forces are fighting the Iran-backed group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Tehran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for a strike on Beirut.<\/p>\n

Israel responded in the early hours of Monday morning by targeting what it said were military sites in the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

In a call with the BBC, US President Donald Trump denied that Netanyahu had defied his wishes by launching strikes.<\/p>\n

“No, no. They had already gone. They had already gone. They were already on their way,” he said.<\/p>\n

The White House confirmed that Trump had called Netanyahu to discuss the crisis. An Israeli official said Israel had halted its strikes at his request.<\/p>\n

Asked how he had persuaded Netanyahu to stop attacking Iran, Trump responded: “All I did is say, ‘We have to use sense’. We’re very close to signing a very powerful deal, a very good deal.<\/p>\n

“No nuclear weapons, no nothing. You know, we have to use a lot of common sense. It was fine.”<\/p>\n

Trump also said of Netanyahu: “If I tell him to do something, he does it.”<\/p>\n

The president told US news outlet Axios he had told Israel’s prime minister he might find himself fighting alone if he went back to war with Iran.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,'” Axios quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

In his televised statement on Monday, Netanyahu said he had told Trump that “Israel has a full right to self-defence, and we are exercising it as required”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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