Iranian president: Israeli strikes on Lebanon render negotiations ‘meaningless’

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Israeli strikes on Lebanon violate the ceasefire agreement and would render negotiations meaningless.

The ongoing strikes against Hezbollah “signal deception and non-compliance” and render negotiations “meaningless,” he writes in a post on X. “Our hands remain on the trigger. Iran will never forsake its Lebanese brothers and sisters.”

Iran’s parliament speaker also says Lebanon is a key part of the two-week ceasefire with the United States, warning that violations will bring severe consequences, following massive Israeli strikes on Lebanon yesterday.

“Lebanon and the entire Resistance Axis, as Iran’s allies, form an inseparable part of the ceasefire,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says in a post on X. “Ceasefire violations carry explicit costs and STRONG responses.”