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6/7/2026, 3:40:51 AM
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched missiles at Israel in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, raising the possibility of a return to heavy fighting and complicating mediation efforts to end the war.
Iran’s state broadcaster confirmed the launches, and Iran closed its western airspace to brace for a possible response.
Tehran had warned of retaliation after Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning earlier Sunday in defiance of Washington’s request days ago to stand down.
Israel said the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired at northern Israel earlier in the day.
“The army will continue to act in all of Lebanon,” the Israel military spokesperson said.
The military’s chief of staff, Lt.
Gen.
Eyal Zamir, said it will “strike the enemy with determination as soon as the order is given.”
But Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, said U.S.
President Donald Trump told it that he doesn’t think Israel needs to respond further.
Trump told the Financial Times: “I call all the shots.
He (Netanyahu) doesn’t call the shots.”
Iran had warned that an attack on Beirut would renew full-scale war across the Middle East, even as Pakistan and other mediators try to restart talks between Tehran and Washington.
“U.S. forces across the Middle East remain vigilant and ready,” the U.S.
Central Command posted on X shortly before the missile launches.
The U.S.
Embassy in Israel later directed employees and family members to shelter in place.
Iran says any deal must include an end to fighting in Lebanon.
Trump told a Fox News Channel reporter that he wanted the Iranians to stop firing missiles and return to the negotiating table.
He also said that Israel’s strikes earlier Sunday were not coordinated with the U.S. and “I’m not happy about it.”
Israel last week had announced it would strike the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, but urgent talks via Washington halted that on the condition that Hezbollah stop targeting Israeli border towns.
Hezbollah, which claimed responsibility for firing at Israel earlier Sunday, wants the direct talks between Lebanon and Israel to end.
Instead, it supports Iran’s stance that an overall ceasefire deal between Tehran and Washington include the situation in Lebanon.
Netanyahu, who seeks reelection later this year, is under heavy domestic pressure to respond to both Iran and the Hezbollah threat, which has paralyzed life for thousands of residents along Israel’s northern border.
But Trump has made clear he does not want to see the war resume.
Trump said earlier Sunday in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he would like to see a “more surgical attack on Hezbollah.”
He also said he was “not demanding” that Lebanon be part of an overall ceasefire deal in the Iran war.
Iran continues to assert its grip on the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. continues its blockade of Iranian ports, with shipments of oil, natural gas and fertilizer affected and the global economy in pain.
After its launches against Israel, Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority announced that the country’s airspace would close for 72 hours and Syria’s aviation authority announced a 12-hour airspace closure.
All flights from Tehran’s main international airport were suspended, the civil aviation authority said, according to the official Mizan news agency.
Pakistan’s interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, was in Tehran on Sunday delivering a message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei from Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
There were no details on the message’s contents.
Khamenei has not been seen in public since he was named the Islamic Republic’s ruler after his father was killed on Feb. 28 as Israeli and U.S. strikes sparked the war.
Pakistani authorities have said Islamabad, with support from regional countries including Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, is working to help bridge differences.
In Cairo, the Egyptian and Qatari foreign ministers discussed “proposed elements” of a potential agreement between the U.S. and Iran, the Egyptian foreign ministry said, without details.
And after Iran’s missile launches at Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with counterparts in France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Britain, Egypt and Turkey as well as Pakistan’s army chief, Iran’s state TV said.
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