Iran launches missile attack on Israel; U.S. officials discuss peace talks and ceasefire calls
Iran carried out its first direct missile strike on Israel since the April 8 ceasefire, while U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials made a series of statements about the conflict, a potential peace deal, and calls for ceasefires.
Iran launched its first direct missile attack on Israel since the ceasefire reached on April 8, according to Mercopress. The independent.com reported that Iran's deputy foreign minister confirmed a deal with the United States to end the war.
President Donald Trump said the Israeli strike on Beirut should not have happened (Al Arabiya) and called for all sides to stand down after Israeli airstrikes on Beirut (The Guardian). He also said the United States is very close to a peace deal with Iran (Al Arabiya) and announced a peace deal with Tehran, saying “let the oil flow” (the-independent.com). Trump urged Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah after fresh strikes (GDELT) and declined to confirm whether he had spoken directly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (GDELT).
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the Israel Defense Forces will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza without any time limit, as reported by the-independent.com. The same outlet reported that Lebanon suffered the deadliest spillover of the U.S.–Iran conflict, with thousands killed and about 1.2 million people uprooted by an Israeli offensive against Iran‑backed Hezbollah.
This account was written only from facts that survived Augur's
corroboration pass — 0 corroborated across opposed news blocs,
0 contested (attributed to both sides), 10
single-source (attributed). Nothing was added; no significance was inferred.
Model Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.
See the evidence & the verbatim quotes →