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escalate. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine said the incidents remained “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations”. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the ceasefire “certainly holds”. ## Has Washington blinked
escalation in their conflict started when Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel on 2 March, following the killing of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the US and Israel launched a war on Iran
US intervention in the Strait of Hormuz will be viewed by Iran as a violation of the [ceasefire](/news/liveblog/2026/5/3/iran-war-live-trump-says-reviewing-14-point-plan-israel-pounds-lebanon) that came into effect on April 7. “The Iranians are quite clear. They are saying they
escalation in Lebanon](/news/2026/6/3/israels-invasion-of-southern-lebanon-devastates-centuries-of-history). “I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump said. Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, including an announcement that the Israeli military would bomb the capital, Beirut
Iran harboured towards the US. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Iranian armed forces fired back and shot down a US-made RQ-4 drone, using a domestically-made air defence system called [Arash
Iran attack a US warship on Monday? Fars reported that a US warship had been hit by two Iranian drones after it refused orders to turn back from the strait. CENTCOM denied this, however
US-Iranian talks in [Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan) scheduled for Saturday. Pezeshkian vowed Iran would not abandon the Lebanese people. According to Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, [Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) had been
escalation.” Jauhar Saleem, a former ambassador and president of the Institute of Regional Studies in Islamabad, said Iran’s calculation was also tactical. “Ideally, Iran would not want a deal vulnerable to the US election
Iran deal ‘within reach’:** US president said Washington and Tehran were “right on the borderline” between reaching an agreement and resuming war, warning that failure to secure the “right answer” could lead to rapid escalation
escalate its offensive in an effort to “crush” Hezbollah in a further erosion of an already fragmented ceasefire. In turn, [Hezbollah](https://www.theguardian.com/world/hezbollah) said it staged several attacks on Monday on three barracks
escalated their rhetoric. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday that the US is trying to “activate economic pressure and internal division” in the country “to weaken or even collapse us from within
Iran will not test the US blockade, instead opting to pause shipments to avoid a military confrontation," she said. Traders may have also been encouraged by signs that several sanctioned tankers "appeared to make
military capabilities alone, he noted. “What we’re seeing here is that Iran has completely changed that dynamic. Rather than using these proxy groups to fight for Iran, it is escalating itself as a state
Iran’s chief negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made the same point “The naval blockade and escalation of war crimes in Lebanon by the genocidal Zionist regime are clear evidence of US noncompliance
escalating still further under cover of the US-Israel war on Iran. According to figures compiled by the [United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs](/news/2026/5/5/palestine-weekly-wrap-israeli-security-agencies-sound-alarm-on-settlers), 12 Palestinians have been killed in settler
escalates: What happened, why it matters The United States and Iran have [exchanged fire](/news/liveblog/2026/5/8/iran-war-live-trump-says-ceasefire-still-in-effect-as-iran-us-clash) in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting fears that the already fragile ceasefire between the warring nations could collapse. The flare
escalation, including [posting a picture](/news/2026/5/23/united-states-of-the-middle-east-trump-posts-us-flag-covering-iran) on Saturday of Iran covered in a US flag, and saying a deal was close. The US president released the statement shortly after Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir
US troop withdrawal from Germany could far exceed 5,000 soldiers as tensions between the two allies rise over the war on Iran. ## In Lebanon - At least 41 people have been killed as Israel launched
military on Monday to attack targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the Lebanese group. ## New US proposal Meanwhile, Washington has put forward a proposal to de-escalate hostilities
escalate **Tehran, Iran –** Iranian media say a United States warship trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz has been hit with two missiles after ignoring warnings. The unnamed warship had to withdraw from near