Israeli analysts say US-Iran deal \u2018political victory\u2019 for Tehran
\nTehran
\nThe US-Iran agreement reached under Pakistani mediation is \u201cbad for Israel and the entire free world,\u201d claimed Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday.
\n\u201cThe joint campaign had many achievements in weakening Iran, and they will not go to waste,\u201d he said on the US social media company X.
\n\u201cWe will have to continue the campaign to topple the regime ourselves and in creative ways, and ensure that Iran will never have nuclear weapons,\u201d he added.
\nClaiming that Tel Aviv will be tested in Lebanon, Smotrich said he will \u201ccontinue to act\u201d to give the Israeli army \u201cfull freedom of action to continue pushing Hezbollah away.\u201d
\nUS President Donald Trump declared Sunday that a peace agreement with Iran had been completed. The deal includes halting war on all fronts, including Lebanon, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the end of a US naval blockade on Iran.
\nDespite the announcement, the Israeli army continued to launch airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday.
\nThe Israeli attacks have killed over 3,700 people, wounded nearly 11,500, and displaced over 1.5 million since March 2, according to Lebanese officials.
\nIsraeli analysts say US-Iran deal \u2018political victory\u2019 for Tehran
\nIsraeli political analysts have described a US-Iran agreement as a \u201cpolitical victory\u201d for Tehran, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of making Israel \u201chostage\u201d to Trump.
\nTrump announced Sunday that an agreement with Iran had been finalised and said he was authorising the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of a US naval blockade.
\nIn reports released before the deal\u2019s announcement and reviewed by Anadolu, Israeli commentators said the agreement would leave key Israeli concerns unresolved, including Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program and Tehran\u2019s support for regional allies.
\nWriting in the Israeli daily Israel Hayom, columnist Ben-Dror Yemini said any possible agreement would effectively amount to US recognition of \u201ca stronger and more radical Iranian regime.\u201d
\nYemini argued that the agreement would be seen in Iran as a \u201cpolitical victory\u201d because it gives the regime international recognition without substantially addressing its ballistic missile program or its links with regional allies.
\nHe said Iran would continue to pose a regional threat and that Israel would still face a ballistic missile threat, adding that the Lebanese group Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthi group, Shia militias in Iraq, and the Palestinian group Hamas would continue to operate with Iranian funding.
\n\u201cHamas was not defeated after a war that lasted two years, and Iran was not defeated after 40 days of bombing,\u201d Yemini noted.
\nOn the Netanyahu-Trump relationship, Yemini said many Israelis had hoped it would produce unprecedented coordination.
\nWhile there had been tactical cooperation, including joint strikes on Iran, he said it had not translated into a strategic achievement.
\n\u2018Serious political defeat\u2019
\nIn the Israeli daily Maariv, political analyst Ben Caspit said that despite Israel\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Israeli analysts say US-Iran deal \u2018political victory\u2019 for Tehran Tehran The US-Iran agreement reached under Pakistani mediation is \u201cbad for Israel and the entire free world,\u201d claimed Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday. \u201cThe joint campaign had many achievements in weakening Iran, and they will not go to waste,\u201d he said on the US …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99140,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99121\/revisions\/99140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}