Gregg Carlstrom

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Ceasefire alarm: Iran and Israel trade strikes · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

Uh so if you go back to the first days of the deal in early April, once it was agreed, Iran said it wouldn't abide by the ceasefire unless Donald Trump

Restrained the Israelis in Lebanon.

And he eventually did that.

He didn't tell them to halt their attacks entirely, but he ordered Israel to halt the geographic scope and the intensity of its airstrikes in Lebanon.

Now, obviously, Israel has always rejected this linkage.

It understandably is unhappy about the idea that Iran could impose conditions on its war in Lebanon.

And so

So Binymin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, has always insisted that these two conflicts should be separate.

And what we've seen over the past few weeks has been Israel intensifying its combat in Lebanon.

Hezbollah has continued to fire at northern Israel.

It has been using, in some cases, fiber optic drones that Israel doesn't have a reliable way to defend against.

to kill Israeli troops both in Lebanon and in northern Israel and to attack

Civilian targets in northern Israel.

And this has put a lot of pressure on Netanyahu's government.

And so we've seen him expand the scope of airstrikes in Lebanon, including the strike in Beirut, the capital, over the weekend.

He's ordered Israeli troops further into Lebanon.

And so for Iran now, the message that they are sending is that they insist on these two conflicts being linked.

And if Israel does continue to

to carry out these attacks in Lebanon, it has threatened to carry out further attacks on Israel.

It is.

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