Israeli military chief vows to strike Iran 'with force as soon as green light is given'
Iran FM speaks to European, regional counterparts, ministry says
Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi discussed the latest events in the region on Sunday night with his counterparts in Britain, France, and Turkey, as well as with Qatar's leader and Pakistani mediators.
The separate conversations focused on Iran's response to Israel's "repeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon", his ministry said in a statement, without offering further details.
The telephone calls, reported by the IRNA news agency citing the Iranian foreign ministry, came as Iran launched salvoes of missiles at Israel after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.
Araghchi spoke to Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the French, British and Turkish foreign ministers, and members of the Pakistani team attempting to mediate an agreement between Tehran and Washington to end the Middle East war.
Israel army vows to operate across Lebanon, intensify actions against Hezbollah
The Israeli army has said Iran "commited grave mistake" by firing missiles at Israel and that the army vows to operate across Lebanon and intensify its operations against Hezbollah.
Trump says he will ask Netanyahu not to strike back at Iran, US media reports
President Donald Trump will call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and press him not to retaliate for the Iranian missile attack, US news site Axios reports.
The Iranian missiles "didn't hurt anybody," said Trump in an interview with Axios reporter Barak Ravid. "Hopefully Israel is not going to retaliate."
Trump added that, "We are very close to a final deal with Iran. I don't want it to blow up because of what is happening now."
Iran closes airspace over country's west, state media reports
Iran has closed the airspace over the west of the country shortly after launching a salvo of missiles towards Israel in response to its latest strike on Lebanon.
"Due to safety and security assessments... the western part of the country's airspace was declared closed until further notice," said Majid Akhavan, the spokesman for the National Civil Aviation Organisation, in a statement carried by the news agency IRNA.
Iraq temporarily closes airspace, suspends air navigation over safety concerns
Iraq has temporarily closed its airspace and suspended air navigation for reasons related to air traffic safety following the launch of Iranian rockets, civil aviation officials told Reuters.
The Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority said Iraqi airspace will remain closed for 72 hours.
IRGC says it targeted Israeli air base with ballistic missiles
Iran's Revolutionary Guards has said it targeted Israel's Ramat David air base with ballistic missiles.
The attack was a "warning" of a broader response that would encompass all US and Israeli targets in the region if "aggressions" are repeated, said the Revolutionary Guards.
The acceptance of the ceasefire was conditional on the cessation of fire on all fronts, but the US and Israel did not adhere to their commitments, the Guards added.
Israel military says intercepted all missiles fired by Iran so far
Israel says schools shut tomorrow after Iran fires missiles
Israel reports second salvo of Iranian missiles
Israeli military identifies missiles launched from Iran
The Israeli military said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the state of Israel a short time ago, adding that defence systems are operating to intercept the threat.
Israeli military says defence systems operating to intercept missile threat from Iran
Hezbollah confirms it attacked target in northern Israel
Hezbollah said it had launched a drone at an army post in northern Israel on Sunday, confirming an attack hours after Israel said it had struck Beirut in retaliation for cross-border fire.
In a statement, the group said that "in response to the Israeli enemy's violation of the ceasefire and the attacks that struck villages in southern Lebanon... the fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted, at 9:30 AM on Sunday, June 7, 2026, a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers at Dovev Barracks".
Two killed, 20 wounded in Israeli attack on Beirut suburbs
The Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday killed two people and wounded 20 more, Lebanon's health ministry said.
"The Israeli enemy's airstrike on the Mreijeh area in the southern suburbs of Beirut resulted in two martyrs and 20 wounded, including 4 children and 4 women," the ministry said, in a statement.
Iran's top negotiator threatens US targets over Lebanon escalation
The US naval blockade of Iran and its green light on Sunday for Israel to escalate attacks in Lebanon make US bases and Israeli assets in the Middle East legitimate targets, Iran's top negotiator said in a post on X.
The comments from Iran's Parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, follow Israeli attacks on the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, a stronghold of Iran's ally Hezbollah.
"They are neither committed to a ceasefire nor believe in dialogue, and through the naval blockade and violation of agreements regarding Lebanon they showed that they only understand the language of power," Ghalibaf said in an apparent reference to the US and Israel.
Trump says won't unfreeze Iran assets before deal
US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he will not unfreeze Iranian assets before reaching an agreement with Tehran.
Asked whether he would be willing, as part of a potential agreement, to unfreeze Iranian assets or lift certain sanctions against Iran, Trump replied: "No."
"(That) comes after. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking," he said in the interview with NBC, recorded Friday.
Iran has demanded that billions in frozen assets be unblocked.
Grief, mourning at funeral for Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli strike
Mourners gathered in Beirut Sunday for the funeral of the Lebanese soldiers killed in an Israeli strike on their vehicle on Saturday.
Two Lebanese officers and a soldier were killed in a strike on a military vehicle on the road between Khardali and Nabatieh in southern Lebanon in an attack that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called a "flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty".
Lebanese army soldiers carry the coffin of Brig. Gen. Wissam Sabra during his funeral in Beirut, June 7, 2026. (Photo: Hassan Ammar, AP)
A mourner touches the coffin of the Lebanese army Brig. Gen. Wissam Sabra, who was killed in an Israeli strike during his funeral procession in Beirut, June 7, 2026. (Photo: Hassan Ammar, AP)
A relative of the Lebanese soldier Hassan Nazzal, who was killed in an Israeli strike, mourns as she holds his portrait during his funeral procession in Beirut, June 7, 2026. (Photo: Hassan Ammar, AP)
Iranian lawmaker warns of a 'painful' response to Israel's attack on Beirut's southern suburbs
Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei has said Tehran will deliver a "painful" response to Israel's attack on Beirut's Dahiyeh southern suburb.
In a post on X, Rezaei warned of a "decisive" and "painful" response after the Israeli military conducted strikes in the Hezbollah stronghold southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
Trump urges more 'surgical' strikes against Hezbollah in NBC interview
President Donald Trump called for more "surgical" strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"I'd like to see Lebanon have a better life. I'd like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah. I think it should be more surgical," Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," recorded Friday.
Arab attacker opens fire in central Israel, killing 1 and wounding 5
A Palestinian man with Israeli citizenship went on a shooting rampage in several towns in central Israel on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five others, according to Israeli police. The attacker was killed by police.
The attack came at a time of heightened tensions following a spate of Israeli settler attacks, and the deadly shooting of a Palestinian baby over the weekend, in the nearby West Bank.
Police identified the attacker as a resident of the Arab town of Taybeh in his 20s, but his precise motives were not immediately known.
Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky notes that the fact that it was an attack perpetrated by an Israeli citizen "is shaking up the country quite a bit, shaking up the government that keeps promising security and failing to deliver".
Yesterday's key developments
- Iran fired seven ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain hours after US forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz , the US military said.
- Several Lebanese soldiers, including an officer, were killed in an Israeli strike targeting their military vehicle on the Khardali-Nabatieh road in south Lebanon, the Lebanese army said. The Israeli army announced the deaths of two soldiers who had been fighting in southern Lebanon .
- The UN food agency said millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war , as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
