Senior Iranian lawmaker says Netanyahu’s government was collapsing under Iranian strikes

A senior Iranian lawmaker said Tehran accepted a halt to the war with Israel while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “collapsing under Iran’s heavy strikes."

“It might have been better not to have agreed to stop the war so soon,” said Fada-Hossein Maleki, a member of parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, in an interview with Didban Iran. “When we accepted, Netanyahu’s government was under pressure.”

Maleki called the current arrangement a “pause in fighting,” not a lasting ceasefire, and warned it could break down. “This stop is itself part of the war process,” he said.