US-Iran truce issues ahead of Pakistan talks. Trump, overnight message: “This is not the deal we made!”
The fragile two-week truce between the US and Iran came into question on Friday, a day before scheduled talks in Pakistan, with Donald Trump accusing Tehran of breaking its word on the Strait of Hormuz and Israel launching attacks on Lebanon.
Iran's near-total blockade of the strait has not been lifted, and Tehran has cited Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon as a key point, Reuters notes.
Donald Trump published a message of deep dissatisfaction on Thursday night (01:30 Romanian time).
“Iran is doing very poorly — some would say shamefully — on allowing oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. This is not the deal we made!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.
In a separate post, he said oil would start flowing again, without specifying what action the US might take.
Issues regarding Lebanon
In the first 24 hours after the cease-fire announced by Trump on Tuesday, only one oil tanker and five dry cargo ships crossed the strait, which used to pass a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows and 140 ships a day before the war.
The Israeli military said early Friday that it had hit 10 launchers in Lebanon that fired rockets toward northern Israel late Thursday and that the Iran-allied Hezbollah armed group had fired a rocket toward Israel, setting off air raid sirens.
The missile was intercepted, according to the Times of Israel. Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli military infrastructure in the northern city of Haifa.
The US and Israel have said the latest ceasefire agreement does not include Lebanon, which Israel invaded last month – in parallel with the war against Iran – to eliminate Hezbollah.
But Iran and Pakistan, which acted as mediators, say Lebanon was explicitly part of the deal. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is set to lead the Iranian delegation to US Vice President JD Vance, said on social media that Lebanon and the rest of Iran's “axis” of regional allies are inseparable parts of any ceasefire deal.
Iran remains determined to 'take revenge'
In a provocative statement, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Thursday that Iran will seek revenge for the war.
“We will certainly not let the criminal aggressors who attacked our country go unpunished. We will without a doubt demand reparations for every damage caused,” he said in the statement.
Mojtaba also said Iran remains determined to “take revenge” for the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and all those killed in the war.
“We will certainly demand compensation for every damage caused, as well as the price of the blood of the martyrs and compensation for the wounded of this war,” according to the statement attributed to Khamenei.
The deal for a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, came just hours before a deadline that Trump said would trigger US attacks on Iran's power plants and bridges and the destruction of “an entire civilization”.
