Liberman warns against Iran ceasefire ‘without a clear and unambiguous agreement’

By Sam Sokol 24 June 2025, 9:36 am

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A bad ceasefire will bring about another war between Iran and Israel within a few short years, warns Avigdor Liberman, the chairman of the hawkish Yisrael Beytenu opposition party.

Calling the final Iranian attacks on Israel in the wake of the country’s “incredible military achievements” of the past week and a half “particularly jarring and bitter,” Liberman bemoans that “instead of unconditional surrender, the world has entered into difficult and tedious negotiations, with the ayatollah regime having no intention of giving up – not on uranium enrichment on Iranian soil, not on the production and equipping of ballistic missiles, nor on supporting and financing terrorism in the region and around the world.”

“Already at the beginning of the war, I warned that there is nothing more dangerous than leaving a wounded lion,” Liberman says. “A ceasefire without a clear and unambiguous agreement will certainly lead us to another war in two or three years, and under much worse conditions.”