Gulf countries scramble to intercept missiles hours into U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement
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Within hours after the ceasefire announcement, the Israeli military said that it had identified ballistic missile attacks from Iran.
The UAE said its air defense systems were dealing with missile attacks and incoming drones from Iran.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar also issued alerts or activated defenses.
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Wait, are you saying that Iran didn’t actually agree to a ceasefire, and Trump just outright lied to us? Who could possibly have predicted this?
It seems they may have agreed, but there's disagreement to how far the scope extends. It's not clear what the actual contents of the agreement were, but Pakistan, which mediated the deal, said the two-week pause in fighting did extend to Lebanon. Iran has previously included that as a term in talks, but hasn't confirmed if they kept it this time. But they likely did, I don't see why Pakistan would lie about that either.
Israel, unsurprisingly, says the ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, and has not stopped attacking Lebanon. In fact, they just launched the largest attack on Lebanon in decades. It also sounds like an oil refinery in Iran was hit after the US ceasefire announcement, but there are no details of who hit it yet.
As another commenter said, Israel is still attacking Lebanon, so, as usual, they ignore any and all ceasefire agreements
But think of the markets!
You mean trump TACO’d?
This comes AFTER Israel already broke the ceasefire, so not really on Iran this one.
I must have missed the news of Iran-Israel ceasefire. Can you share your source?
EDIT: Note that US is a different country
Is it, though?
Iran didn't fire missiles to the US, so I guess it holds?
There was a Lebanon-Israel one and Israel broke it meaning Iran needs to react and this was their reaction. Also yeah Israel and the US are inseparable.
Market go up, market go down, missile go up, missile go down.