Iran was relaying message to US through Qatar before Beirut strikes - IRGC outlet

The Israeli military said it was preparing for the possibility of fire toward Israel in the coming hours following its strike in Beirut.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir was conducting ongoing situation assessments with relevant commanders.

“The IDF continues to maintain readiness and vigilance for a range of scenarios in defense and offense,” the military said in a statement.

“The IDF will not tolerate fire toward the territory of the State of Israel,” the military said.

Hezbollah commander Ali al-Hajj was killed in Israel’s airstrike on Dahieh in Beirut on Sunday, Al Arabiya reported.

Al Arabiya also reported that the Israeli military carried out three airstrikes on the town of Sajd in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military earlier said it targeted a Hezbollah headquarters in Dahieh in Beirut in response to the Iran-backed group launching three drones toward northern Israel.

Iranian government spokesperson said on Sunday that those attacking the country’s negotiators were in effect attacking a national decision, not a person or political faction.

Fatemeh Mohajerani said diplomacy was not opposed to the battlefield but a continuation of it, adding that negotiating from a position of strength meant turning national power into tangible benefits for the public.

The spokesperson warned that any voice creating division would weaken Iran’s hand at the negotiating table and signal weakness to the other side.

The strikes in Beirut are creating issues with finalizing the Iran-US deal, Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst said on X, citing a diplomat involved in the talks.

“This is a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the President’s deal and drag the United States back into war,” the diplomat told Fox News.

A senior Israeli official rejected the notion that Israel was to blame for the exchange of fire.

“Hezbollah attacks have targeted Israeli civilians the past three days,” the Israeli official told Fox News.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Israel’s attack on Dahieh in Beirut showed Washington either lacked the will or the ability to carry out its commitments, warning that the path forward was impossible if the United States failed to do so.

“The Zionists’ aggression against Dahieh once again showed that the United States either has no will to implement its commitments or lacks the ability to do so. You cannot gain concessions by showing a green light to the regime. The bad cop-good cop game has become old,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X.

“If you do not have the will and ability to implement your commitments, it is not possible to speak of continuing the path,” he added.