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Iran, Israel Pull Back From Brink After Trading Fire
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- Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Lebanon jeopardizes the Iran war’s cease-fire, Russia’s threat to China-North Korea relations, and a deadly earthquake in the Philippines.
- Iran declared an end to its military operations against Israel on Monday, after an exchange of attacks risked escalating the Middle East conflict.
- Still, as FP’s John Haltiwanger reports, the latest flare-up demonstrates the folly of trying to divorce Israel’s conflict in Lebanon from the Iran war, as the Trump administration has tried to do.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Lebanon jeopardizes the Iran war’s cease-fire, Russia’s threat to China-North Korea relations, and a deadly earthquake in the Philippines.
Iran declared an end to its military operations against Israel on Monday, after an exchange of attacks risked escalating the Middle East conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said that his country’s “fire is on hold,” after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly urged the Israeli leader to back off from further strikes.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Lebanon jeopardizes the Iran war’s cease-fire, Russia’s threat to China-North Korea relations, and a deadly earthquake in the Philippines.
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