{"id":21556,"date":"2026-06-08T19:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-pauses-strikes-but-warns-of-escalation-as-trump-urges-foes-to-immediately-stop-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:19:39","slug":"iran-pauses-strikes-but-warns-of-escalation-as-trump-urges-foes-to-immediately-stop-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-pauses-strikes-but-warns-of-escalation-as-trump-urges-foes-to-immediately-stop-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran pauses strikes but warns of escalation as Trump urges foes to \u2018immediately stop\u2019 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-bullets-style\">\n<ul>\n<li>Israel hits petrochemical plant in southwestern Iran<\/li>\n<li>Trump tells Iran, Israel to &lsquo;stop shooting&rsquo;<\/li>\n<li>Sounds of explosions heard in Tehran<\/li>\n<li>Latest attacks follow Iranian missile strikes &zwnj;on Israel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>DUBAI, June 8 &mdash; Iran&rsquo;s military announced today that its first wave of attacks on Israel since a ceasefire in April was now over, although it threatened to resume the strikes if Israel continued attacks on Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from Israel, which had launched attacks &zwnj;on Iran after Tehran fired missiles towards Israel late on Sunday. Iran had said its strikes were in retaliation for Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, US President Donald Trump demanded that Israel and Iran &ldquo;immediately stop &lsquo;shooting&rsquo;&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The flurry of attacks drove oil prices up around 4 per cent and threatened to wreck US-led efforts to broker a deal to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>Israel hit a petrochemical plant in southwestern Iran that it said was used to produce ballistic missiles. Iran&rsquo;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it retaliated with a strike aimed at a similar Israeli plant in the city of Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>The first direct exchange between Israel and Iran since April could interfere with Trump&rsquo;s efforts to end the war he launched alongside Israel at the end of February.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Iran&rsquo;s military headquarters said it had &ldquo;delivered a painful response&rdquo; against Israel for its attacks on Lebanon, including Sunday&rsquo;s strikes on the outskirts of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Accordingly, the operations of the armed forces are hereby declared halted; however, it is emphasized that if the aggressions and acts of mischief continue &mdash; including in southern &zwnj;Lebanon &mdash; much more severe and crushing actions than before will follow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In one of several posts on social media, Trump said Israel and Iran both &#8288;wanted &ldquo;an immediate CEASEFIRE! Final negotiations on &lsquo;Peace&rsquo; are proceeding, subject to ignorance or &#8288;stupidity getting in its way.&rdquo; He added that a US blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place &#8288;till a final deal was reached.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli &#8288;official said Trump had spoken on &#8288;Monday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday an Israeli military official said Israel was prepared for a range of options for military strikes against Iran, from several days to &ldquo;as long as it takes&rdquo;. Israel had struck Iranian air defence systems that were being rebuilt after previous Israeli attacks, as well as &#8288;the petrochemical plant.<\/p>\n<p>In a similarly defiant vein, an Iranian military source quoted by the Tasnim news agency had said Tehran was prepared for a prolonged conflict with Israel and for renewed strikes against US interests in the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><strong>&lsquo;Extreme suspicion&rsquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran was exchanging messages with Washington in an atmosphere of &ldquo;extreme suspicion&rdquo;. Israel&rsquo;s actions in Lebanon, whether carried out with US knowledge and consent or not, were aimed at sabotaging diplomacy, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The United States bears direct responsibility for any action the Zionist regime (Israel) takes in relation to violating regional peace and security against Iran,&rdquo; &#8288;he said.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media reported the sound of explosions in Tehran on Monday, and the semi-official Mehr news agency said air defences had shot down a drone over the capital. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&rsquo;s Iran-aligned Houthis pledged in a &#8288;statement to stop Israel&rsquo;s maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and said they had also fired missiles at Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have so far largely stayed out &#8288;of the regional war; &#8288;they control territory at the mouth of the Red Sea, increasingly important as the alternative route for millions of barrels per day of Middle East oil otherwise blocked by Iran&rsquo;s grip on the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military official said Iran had fired &ldquo;close to 30 ballistic missiles&rdquo; at Israel since Sunday evening, and the Houthis a further &zwnj;two missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said it struck targets at the Mahshahr petrochemical complex that were used to produce and export raw materials for Iran&rsquo;s missile programme. A provincial official told Iranian media parts of the plant were damaged. &mdash; Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Iran pauses strikes but warns of escalation as Trump urges foes to &lsquo;immediately stop&rsquo; attacks<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel hits petrochemical plant in southwestern Iran Trump tells Iran, Israel to &lsquo;stop shooting&rsquo; Sounds of explosions heard in Tehran Latest attacks follow Iranian missile strikes &zwnj;on Israel DUBAI, June 8 &mdash; Iran&rsquo;s military announced today that its first wave of attacks on Israel since a ceasefire in April was now over, although it threatened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/iran-pauses-strikes-but-warns-of-escalation-as-trump-urges-foes-to-immediately-stop-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Iran pauses strikes but warns of escalation as Trump urges foes to \u2018immediately stop\u2019 attacks&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}