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Lebanon and Israel <\/strong>agreed<\/a><\/strong> to a three-week ceasefire extension for three weeks<\/strong> following talks at the White House overnight, with Lebanon\u2019s Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected to follow up with another round of talks for a more permanent peace deal. As part of the agreement, the US will \u201cwork with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah,\u201d US President Donald Trump said after the agreement was reached, without giving further details on what that help could look like. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the US and Iran don\u2019t seem to have made much progress on their own <\/strong>ceasefire talks<\/strong>, with Trump saying he is seeking the \u201cbest deal\u201d with Iran to make it \u201ceverlasting.\u201d Trump has also suggested<\/a> that the progress on an agreement with Iran could be slow-moving because Tehran\u2019s leadership is in disarray \u2014 a claim that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said was part of \u201cthe enemy\u2019s media operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran and the US are still very much fighting over control of the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>, with traffic halted earlier this week after Tehran attacked three ships<\/a>, escorting two of them into Iranian waters. Beyond the strait, US forces attacked<\/a> at least three Iranian-flagged tankers in Asian waters, signaling that Washington\u2019s naval blockade is active despite its ongoing ceasefire with Tehran. Partly laden with crude, the vessels were rerouted from their locations off the coasts of India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Washington appears to be working on dismantling Iran\u2019s reach in the region in other <\/strong>moves, including reportedly blocking the delivery of USD 500 mn to Iraq<\/strong> as payment for oil sales, the Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports. The suspended payment \u2014 the second since the war began \u2014 comes as the US pressures Iraq to \u201cdismantle powerful Iranian-backed militias,\u201d including groups that attacked US facilities in Iraq during the war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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