IRAN: NOT WHAT WE AGREED TO: No sooner than President Donald Trump trumpeted “A big day for World Peace!” did the two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan begin to fracture over a dispute of whether the truce applied to Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, and questions about whether Iran’s autonomous regional commanders even got the word to stop shooting.
In a statement posted on X, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the U.S. of violating three of the conditions in its 10-point plan, including its demand for the right to uranium enrichment and its understanding that the ceasefire would apply to Lebanon. Ghalibaf cited a post by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in which the “United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon.”
