U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 11, 2026.
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An advance agreement stop the war with Iran and open it Strait of Hormuz is at stake as Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon strikes exchanged Sunday.
The Israeli military said in a statement on Sunday social media post that they had struck a “Hezbollah command center” in Beirut after Hezbollah launched air attacks “against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon.” The Israeli military said it was preparing for further strikes targeting Israeli territory in the future. Telegram job.
The exchange of blows comes after the US president Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran would sign an agreement on Sunday to end fighting with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump, in a Sunday Social Truth post, said the Israeli attacks on Beirut “should not have happened, especially on a special day when we are so close to a peace deal with Iran.”
“Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, no one was injured or killed, and should not disrupt this important process,” he wrote. “There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah, against Israel.”
The US president warned the parties not to “mess it up”.
The agreement, known as the Memorandum of Understanding, would apparently understand reopen the Strait of Hormuz and take steps to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program. It would also end Tehran’s financing of violence and impose an “inspection regime” on the Islamic Republic.
Iran would be rewarded for its compliance, including the unfreezing of its assets and the easing of sanctions.
Read more about CNBC’s politics coverageTrump said on Saturday Social truth that he hopes “this process will go quickly, easily and smoothly”, adding that if it doesn’t, “we have the ultimate alternative, which will hopefully never be used again!”
An exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon last week threatened to derail a tenuous ceasefire and reignite the more than three-month-old conflict. The United States briefly struck targets in Iran, while Iran launched missiles at Israel and other U.S. allies in the region. The proposed deal was announced shortly after the trade.
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard as people clear rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, June 14, 2026.
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But the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday night has once again raised doubts about the likelihood of a peace deal being reached.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said in a message to X that Israeli strikes in Lebanon threaten to upend the agreement.
“The Zionist incursion into Dahiyeh has shown once again that America has neither the will nor the ability to fulfill its commitments,” he said in his message, according to a translation on
Still, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday that he remained confident the deal would be signed today, during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I’m confident. The team is confident,” he said. “I don’t want to get ahead of the president or the vice president, but they have every intention of getting there today.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said, “From what I know, we’re on the right track. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.”
“If Iran wants this to last, it must definitely remove Hezbollah,” Hegseth said.
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