June 1: Trump announces Israel’s retreat from Beirut attack after Iran's stern warning

By Press TV Website Staff

Iran on Monday said Israel's attacks on Lebanon violate the ceasefire and warned of intervention, which was followed by US President Donald Trump announcing that the Tel Aviv regime had backed down from a planned aggression against Beirut.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced a retaliatory strike on a US air base used to launch an attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran.

Iranian officials issued new warnings over the illegal US blockade of Iranian ports and escalating attacks on Lebanon.

The Islamic Republic also reaffirmed its authority over maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, coordinating the transit of 15 more vessels through the waterway

Key developments on day 94 of the war, the fifty-fourth day of the ceasefire:

• The Israeli regime backed down from a planned military assault on Beirut, US President Donald Trump announced, after Iran warned it would not tolerate a new wave of aggression against Lebanon's capital in breach of a ceasefire between Tehran and Washington. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier ordered military strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh district.
• The IRGC said it carried out a retaliatory strike against a US air base in the region used by the American military to launch a military attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran.
• Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned that the US naval blockade of Iran’s ports and Israel’s growing war crimes in Lebanon will come at a price for Washington and Tel Aviv.
• Mohsen Rezaei, senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, warned Israel and the United States over escalating aggression against Lebanon and the American blockade of Iranian ports, saying Tehran’s patience has a threshold.
• Iran warned the United States that Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon constitute a clear violation of the April 8 ceasefire with Tehran, and that it holds Washington responsible for the breaches.
• Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters issued an evacuation notice for settlers in northern occupied territories, should Israel carry out threats to bomb southern Beirut under the pretext of targeting the Lebanese resistance.
• Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US covers “all fronts, including Lebanon,” warning that any violation on one front will constitute a breach of the broader ceasefire arrangement.
• Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, a senior military spokesman, warned Israel and its allies that they will not tolerate the occupying regime’s ongoing atrocities in Lebanon.
• Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, stated that a ceasefire in Lebanon is inseparable from any final agreement to end the war, as the Israeli regime escalates assaults on Lebanon in violation of an earlier truce.
• Baghaei also condemned the European Union’s reaction to Iran’s legitimate retaliation against recent US military actions, describing it as a “masterclass in selective outrage.”
• Senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Akbar Velayati, warned that Iran and the Resistance Axis will mark the end of what Israel has started in Lebanon.
• The IRGC announced that it coordinated the transit of 15 more ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours.
• President Masoud Pezeshkian told the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Iran would work to allow more ships linked to Japan to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway in the Persian Gulf that Iran has tightly controlled since the early days of the US-Israeli aggression.
• Pezeshkian said he will continue his path with strength, in direct response to baseless resignation rumours spread by an Israeli-backed media outlet.
• Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said the new regulations devised by the Islamic Republic govern maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that the country brooks no foreign interference in this regard.
• Iranian retaliatory attacks have left at least 20 US military sites damaged since the start of the US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic, an analysis of satellite images and videos has shown, indicating the strikes were more extensive than publicly acknowledged.
• A series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon claimed the lives of at least 12 individuals, with at least one medic sustaining injuries.
• A massive wave of displacement unfolded in Beirut’s southern suburbs following Israeli threats to bomb the Lebanese capital amid widespread ceasefire violations by the occupying entity.
• Hezbollah resistance fighters targeted several Israeli military installations. They managed to intercept and shoot down two intruding Hermes 450 multi-role tactical drones in the skies near the border between Lebanon and the occupied territories.
• Fighters from the Hezbollah resistance movement targeted and destroyed an Israeli Iron Dome launcher deep inside the occupied territories, in response to Israel's ceasefire violations and attacks on southern Lebanese villages.
• The price of oil has risen in world trading markets as the Israeli regime forces move deeper into southern Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire that has been in place for more than six weeks.
• French President Emmanuel Macron urged a swift agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, stressing that the current opportunity for de-escalation must be seized immediately.
• British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper acknowledged that Israel’s escalating military aggression in Lebanon has “eroded space for diplomacy,” marking a rare Western admission of the Zionist regime’s destabilising actions in the West Asian region.

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