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Liz Wolfe | 6.8.2026 9:30 AM

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Israel and Iran exchange first strikes since April: For the last two months, the ceasefire between Israel and Iran had mostly held. Until this weekend, when it quickly unraveled. Now Iran is indicating its military campaign is over for now and that it's ready to deescalate once again. (Who knows how true that is, of course.)

"Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel on Sunday night in retaliation for an Israeli strike near the Lebanese capital, Beirut, against its ally Hezbollah," reports The New York Times. "The Israeli military said on Monday morning that it had launched two waves of airstrikes across Iran, including against the country's largest petrochemical complex, prompting further Iranian missile attacks on central Israel."

The fact that Iran started striking Israel because of Israel's actions against Hezbollah—the terrorist group that has been firing on Israel from southern Lebanon since October 2023, in what has been termed the "Gaza Support War"—is of great significance; it shows a shift in how Iran is thinking about defense of its allies

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"This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party," writes Iran scholar Trita Parsi on his Substack. The full post........

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