The American President is stuck in a Middle East Quick Sand that is NOT getting Better as he squirms …
As stated previously….
Israel IS pursuing Hamas and Hezbollah without regard to an American President that is indecisive and in over his head in Foreign Affairs…
Trump has been eating the phone with pleads to Netanyahu to STOP hunting the two groups….
Iran says it IS NOT getting serious until it gets Israel to STOP hunting and now adds the terms of any deal MONEY the US has held to leverage Iran from it’s nuclear weapons pursuits…
Donald Trump is used to people he can bully ….
No such situation exists in the Middle East….
Trump (and His Defense Sec) has worked to get rid of ‘expert’s’ and seasoned military and diplomatic hands to help him get thru a tough situation….
Donald’s famous ‘seat of his pants’ Deal stuff is amateur hour and unless in world affairs….
He IS getting ‘Played’ by BOTH Israel and Iran right now…..
Quietly….
Some ships ARE traversing the Strait of Hormuz …
And Iran shoots at US asset in some Middle east countries while some countries are reportedly talking to Iran backchannel …
Finally….
Around my way gas prices continue to drop by a few cents every day….
Iran attacked Israel with a limited number of ballistic missiles late Sunday after an Israeli attack in the outskirts of Beirut against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group. It raised the specter of a return to open conflict between Iran and Israel for the first time since a cease-fire paused the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in early April.
The Israeli military said that it had intercepted the missiles and announced at around 11 p.m. local time that citizens were free to leave shelters. The government said schools would be closed nationwide on Monday as a precautionary measure.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said the missile barrages were a response to Israel’s attack on Hezbollah. It said its acceptance of a cease-fire with the United States and Israel had been conditioned on a cease-fire on all fronts. “Tonight’s operation was a warning, and if aggressions are repeated, the responses will be broader,” the Guards Corps said in a statement.
Israel did not immediately respond to the Iranian missile attack, and President Trump told Axios that he had planned to call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him not to do so. The Financial Times reported that the president said that Mr. Netanyahu had no choice but to accept a deal with Iran.
“I call all the shots,” the newspaper reported Mr. Trump as saying in an interview. “He doesn’t call the shots.”
Still, the Israel military suggested it was eager to return fire. “The Iranian terror regime committed a grave error,” Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, spokesman for the Israeli military, said in a televised briefing. He said Iran was “trying to forge a new equation by launching directly at our territory” in response to Israeli action in Lebanon. “We will not allow that,” he said.
Israel had joined the United States in a surprise attack on Iran in late February, but Israel and Iran had left each other alone since the April cease-fire as the United States sought a peace deal with Tehran. Although the Israeli and Lebanese governments last week agreed to renew a cease-fire, Hezbollah rejected that truce.
More than 3,600 people in Lebanon have been killed since fighting erupted in March, and hundreds since the cease-fire there. Some 30 Israeli soldiers have been killed.
Mr. Netanyahu, who is behind in the polls heading into a re-election fight, has faced fierce political pressure from citizens of northern Israel who have been plagued by Hezbollah’s rockets, drones and missiles. He warned last week that he would order attacks on Beirut if Hezbollah attacked Israeli territory again.
Mr. Trump told Fox News Sunday that the latest Israeli strike on Beirut had not been coordinated with the United States, and that he was “not happy about it,” the network reported. As for Iran, Fox reported, Mr. Trump said his message was: “You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.”
Here’s what else to know:
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Oil prices rise: The volley of missiles sent oil prices up about 2.9 percent to $95.79, the latest economic jolt from the war. After the initial U.S. and Israeli attacks in February, Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the transportation of petroleum products. The throttling of shipping traffic, coupled with the subsequent U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, set off a surge in fuel prices.
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Israel bombs Beirut: Israel said it bombed a Hezbollah site on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday after the Iran-backed group attacked northern Israel. Read more›
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Despair in Iran: Amid a teetering cease-fire, a reported death toll of 1,700 civilians, and an economic implosion that has made daily life a struggle, Iranians sink into despair.
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ISW….Iran Update Special Report, June 7, 2026
- A Hezbollah rocket attack on northern Israel on June 7 is threatening to completely collapse the ceasefire in the Middle East. Israel responded to the Hezbollah attack by conducting an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Iran responded with a missile attack designed to deter future Israeli attacks against Hezbollah while avoiding escalation into a resumption of full-scale war.
- Iran will likely seek to use the threat of a resumption of full-scale war to deter additional Israeli attacks. Iran is already attempting to present itself as a reasonable actor in the most recent escalation, even though its ally, Hezbollah, started the escalation on June 7.
- Iran has continued its efforts to use force to impose its control over the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy warned other states against disrupting its unrecognized and illegal transit rules, which presumably refers to US efforts to support the movement of commercial vessels through the strait.
- Bloomberg reported on June 6 that US officials are considering using frozen Iranian funds to help Gulf allies repair damage caused by Iranian aggression, citing a Trump Administration official. The official added that the US Treasury Department “will use all tools available” to obtain estimates of the damage that Iran caused to the United States’ Gulf allies and allow them to use Iranian assets for rebuilding.
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Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier today despite its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. The Lebanon health ministry says this attack killed two people and wounded 20 others.
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The Israeli military later said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward the state of Israel in an apparent retaliation. It was the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April. The Israeli military warned of a second barrage of missiles fired from Iran soon after the first.
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The Iranian missiles came shortly after Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaeiwarned in a post on X that Tehran will give a “painful” response to Israel’s attack on Beirut’s Dahiyeh southern suburb, after the Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.
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Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, issued a threat to US bases and assets in the region, claiming that the latest military action turned them into “legitimate targets.”
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the Israeli military must stop its attacks on Lebanon and warned that if Israel escalates its offensives in Lebanon or responds to Iran’s actions, it will face “more crushing and regretful blows.”
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Donald Trump told Fox News when asked about the incoming Iranian missiles that “It’s certainly not going to help negotiations.” He added: “What I would suggest to Iran: You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.” When asked about Israel striking Beirut earlier today, Trump replied: “I’m not happy about it.”
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