A woman with the Iranian flag and that of Hezbollah in Tehran – there were also explosions again in the Iranian capital.Image: keystone
New escalation in the Iran war: Israel’s army launched attacks on the enemy again on Monday night (Swiss time). This was despite the fact that Donald Trump had recently called for this to be waived.
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That’s what happened
Israel fired on targets in Iran again on Monday night (Swiss time). There were explosions in several regions of the country. The attacks are in response to Iranian missiles fired at Israel on Sunday. These in turn followed Israeli attacks in Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran-allied Islamist militia in the neighboring country. Israel carried out the attacks even though US President Donald Trump had recently called for them not to do so, according to media reports.
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This is what is known about the attacks
Israel has attacked targets in several regions of Iran, the Israeli military said. According to the Iranian state broadcaster Irib and the Irna news agency, explosions were also heard in the capital Tehran. However, residential areas within the city were not affected.
According to Israeli Ambassador to the US Yehiel Leiter, the Israeli army attacked Iranian missile launch pads and other military infrastructure. He emphasized that no facilities connected to the energy grid were targeted. Loud CNN In addition to the attacks on Tehran, there were several detonations in and around cities in central and western Iran, namely Tabriz and Isfahan.
That’s what Trump says
Immediately before Israel announced the military strikes, US President Donald Trump said in a telephone interview with the British Financial Times that the Iranian attacks on Israel would have no impact on a possible peace agreement between the US and Iran. An Axios reporter also reported that Trump wanted to call Netanyahu and ask him to refrain from retaliatory strikes against Tehran. Just a few hours later, Israel attacked.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Trump addressed Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu directly before the attacks regarding his influence on a possible agreement: “He will have no other choice,” Trump told the newspaper. «I’m in charge. I have sole say. “He’s not in charge,” said the US President. The fact that Israel took action only shortly after these statements were made public once again reveals a discrepancy in the two allied countries’ ideas about how to proceed. There had already been differences between Trump and Netanyahu in the past week.
According to the interview, Trump previously assumed that the US would continue to negotiate with Iran: “I think the negotiations are continuing,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.” Trump had already made similar comments to Fox News and the news portal Axios. It is not yet clear whether the Israeli attacks will influence this position. Trump has not yet commented on the attacks that have now been carried out.
Stock exchanges in Asia and oil prices react promptly
The major Asian stock exchanges in Japan and South Korea have reacted sensitively to the recent escalation in the Iran war. The South Korean leading index Kospi started the trading week with a loss of over eight percent.
The South Korean leading index Kospi started the trading week with a loss of over eight percent. Due to the strong price movement, the Seoul Stock Exchange imposed a 20-minute trading halt. As of 12 p.m. local time, the Kospi had fallen by around four percent. At the same time, the Japanese leading index Nikkei 225 fell by minus 3.8 percent.
Oil prices also rose significantly again. A barrel (159 liters) of Brent crude oil for delivery in August cost 96.27 US dollars early on Monday morning. That’s almost 3.2 percent more than the day before. The economies of South Korea and Japan are heavily dependent on oil supplies from the Middle East.
The backstory
The Israeli attacks are the latest escalation in a spiral of aggression that has been ongoing since the weekend. Israel attacked on Sunday in the suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut – despite a ceasefire announced by Donald Trump. The army attacked “terrorist headquarters” in Beirut in response to previous shelling of Israel by Hezbollah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced at the weekend.
Hezbollah is Iran’s most important non-state ally. In response to Israel’s operations late on Sunday evening, he attacked Israel with several volleys of rockets, after the Iranian regime had already announced that it would view further Israeli attacks on the greater Beirut area as a new escalation step.
Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, which originally attacked the neighboring state in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, with direct military strikes since 2023. However, since the official ceasefire came into force in mid-April, the Jewish state had significantly reduced attacks.
con with material from the news agencies sda and dpa.