June 07, 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJune 07, 2026Updates60 minutes agoIDF says Israeli Air Force struck Iranian military targets in western and central IranThe Israeli Air Force announced that it struck Iranian military targets in western and central Iran in an initial report, as several explosions were heard in Iran's Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan, according to the semi-official YJC news agency; Mehr news agency also reported that explosions were heard in Tehran.The strikes follow several missile barrages launched at Israel on Sunday evening, following an Israeli strike on Beirut earlier in the day. President Donald Trump had reportedly instructed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate against Tehran. "We are very close to a final deal with Iran," Trump told Axios. "It is going to be a good deal. I don't want it to blow up because of what is happening now."Read the full articleU.S. official tells Axios Netanyahu 'pseudo-agreed' to Trump's instruction not to strike Iran backA U.S. official told Axios that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "pseudo-agreed" to President Donald Trump's instruction not to strike Iran back following a call between the two leaders on Sunday, adding that the conversation was calmer than an exchange last week in which Trump called Netanyahu "fucking crazy."Trump is "pretty adamant that we are close to a deal with Iran. I don't think anything is imminent in terms of an Israeli strike," the U.S. official said."Why jeopardize a potential deal when you are in the fourth quarter," the official added. "The President thinks that we have been in this thing for three months – now is the time to end this thing," the U.S. official added.Read the full article3 hours agoHome Front Command: Schools canceled nationwide; hospitals ordered to operate in underground complexesIsrael's Home Front Command announced that schools will be closed on Monday across the entire country, increasing its security guidelines following Iranian missile barrages.It also said that gatherings of up to 200 people will be permitted only in open areas, and up to 500 people in places with a standard protected space. The guidelines will be in effect until Monday at 8 P.M.The Health Ministry said it instructed hospitals across the country to move to operating from underground facilities in accordance with Home Front Command guidelines, in which it concluded that hospitals must operate under protected conditions. Hospitals were also instructed to prepare for patients to be discharged.Read the full article'I call all the shots': Trump says Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept Iran dealPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "won't have any choice" but to accept a U.S.-negotiated Iran cease-fire because President Donald Trump told the Financial Times that he calls "all the shots."In an interview shortly after Iran fired several missile barrages toward Israel for the first time since a cease-fire was negotiated in April, Trump also told Fox News that he would instruct Netanyahu to refrain from retaliating against Iran, contradicting Israeli military statements.Trump told the Financial Times that Iran's missile barrage had not changed his goal of reaching a U.S.-Iran interim cease-fire agreement: "It's not going to have any impact on the deal," adding, "The deal may make it on its own merit, or not, but this will not have any effect on it.""We'll see how it ends up. But they [the missile strikes on Israel] were attacks that did not kick at all. It's one of those things that's been going for 3,000 years, or 47 years, depending on how you count.""I think the deal is going on," he said. "We'll see what happens."Asked what would happen if cease-fire negotiations failed, Trump said he would consider deploying troops for a U.S. ground operation in Iran."It means [one of] two things," he told FT. "Number one, it would mean that possibly we would go in and take care of the rest of the place that we didn't take care of militarily. Or it would just mean that we would keep the blockade on Iran because the blockade has been probably more powerful than any attack that was ever made on that country."Read the full articleIran says any Israeli action against Iran or Lebanon will be met with 'crushing response'Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that any Israeli action against Iran or Lebanon will be met with a "crushing response."The ministry said Iran's armed forces conducted "defensive strikes" against Israel following repeated violations of the cease-fire and Israeli aggression against Lebanon, adding that a cease-fire in Lebanon was an integral part of the deal negotiated in April.In the NewsA Criminal for a Justice MinisterEuropean Foreign Ministers to Discuss EU-wide Sanctions on Ben-GvirHome Front Command: School Canceled Nationwide; Hospitals to Operate UndergroundIsrael Strikes Iran Despite Trump Saying He Told Netanyahu Not to RetaliateIran Fires at Israel for First Time Since April Truce After IDF Strikes BeirutRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know About'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartHow the U.S. Air Force Is Turning Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport Into Its Own BaseManufactured Nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort Masks a Strategic Failure