Middle East ceasefire threatens to unravel as Israel assaults Lebanon and Iran blocks oil tankers
by Julian Borger, Andrew Roth and David Smith from World news | The Guardian on (#74T4G)
Inclusion of Lebanon is significant difference in interpretation of truce agreed at 11th hour on Tuesday
The fate of the two-week ceasefire in the Iran conflict looked in peril on Wednesday as both sides gave divergent versions of what had been agreed, Israel intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon and Iran halted the passage of oil tankers because of an alleged Israeli ceasefire breach.
Iran and Pakistan, which brokered the 11th-hour truce, both asserted that the ceasefire included Lebanon.
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