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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon violate the ceasefire agreement with the United States and risk rendering negotiations meaningless.
“The repeated aggression by the Zionist entity against Lebanon is a flagrant violation of the initial ceasefire agreement and a dangerous indicator of deceit and lack of commitment to potential accords,” he said in a post on X.
Pezeshkian added that Iran would not abandon the Lebanese people.
Meanwhile, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Lebanon is an integral part of the two-week ceasefire with the United States, warning that violations would carry consequences.
“Lebanon and the entire Resistance Axis, as Iran's allies, form an inseparable part of the ceasefire,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X.
“Ceasefire violations carry explicit costs and STRONG responses,” he added.
The comments came after Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah began last month, killing more than 200 people on Wednesday.
According to Lebanon’s Civil Defense, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 254 people and wounded 1,165 others on Wednesday.
The Israeli army has escalated attacks across Lebanon since Wednesday despite a two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan between the United States and Iran as a step toward a final agreement to halt the war launched by Washington and Tel Aviv against Tehran on Feb. 28.
While Islamabad and Tehran said the ceasefire includes Lebanon, Washington and Tel Aviv have denied that.
Israel has carried out airstrikes and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon since a cross-border attack by Hezbollah on March 2, despite a ceasefire that took effect in November 2024.
Lebanese authorities said at least 1,739 people have been killed and 5,873 others injured in Israeli attacks.
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