00:00Israel signals readiness for independent Iran strikes as U.S. ties show strain.
00:06Jerusalem, Washington, June 10th.
00:08Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Monday that Israel possesses the
00:13military capacity to launch major attacks against Iran without U.S. support or the green
00:19light from President Donald Trump should national security require it.
00:23Israel's right to self-defense.
00:26According to Israeli media reports, Netanyahu emphasized during the June 9th cabinet meeting
00:31that Israel has the sovereign right to defend itself against any nation that threatens it
00:35with nuclear weapons.
00:37Israel has a full right to self-defense, and we are exercising it as required, Netanyahu
00:42later stated publicly, as reported by TASS.
00:46The Prime Minister stressed that while past Israeli military operations against Iran have
00:51involved U.S. military intervention, Israel no longer requires American approval or assistance
00:56to strike its historical enemy.
00:59Netanyahu asserted that Israel possesses sufficient independent capacity to attack Iranian targets
01:04without coordinating with Washington.
01:07Netanyahu was quoted as telling his ministers,
01:10we don't want to be there, but we know we can.
01:13Trump's warning, you'll be on your own.
01:16The Israeli Prime Minister's assertion of independence comes despite, or perhaps in response
01:21to, increasing frustration from the White House over Israel's military actions complicating
01:26U.S.-Iran negotiations.
01:28President Trump revealed that he has warned Netanyahu that Israel could find itself on its
01:33own if it continues military operations that jeopardize ceasefire talks.
01:37I said, Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon, Axios quoted Trump as
01:44saying.
01:45Trump also told the Financial Times that the Israeli Prime Minister would have to accept
01:49any deal the U.S. secures with Iran because he won't have any choice.
01:53I call all the shots.
01:55He doesn't call the shots, Trump was quoted as saying.
01:58However, in a BBC phone interview, Trump denied that Netanyahu had defied his wishes
02:03when Israel launched strikes over the weekend.
02:05When asked if Netanyahu acted against his orders, Trump said the missiles were already on their
02:10way when they spoke, adding, if I tell him to do something, he does it.
02:15Latest escalation, Israel-Iran exchange.
02:18The statements follow a significant exchange of fire between Israel and Iran over the June
02:237-8 weekend, the first direct confrontation between the two nations since the April ceasefire.
02:28On Sunday, June 7th, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at the
02:35Ramat David Air Base in northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's
02:41Dahiya district that targeted Hezbollah facilities.
02:44Israel responded in the early hours of Monday, June 8th, with airstrikes on multiple Iranian targets,
02:50including radar sites and a petrochemical company in Kuzestan province.
02:54Iranian authorities reported at least 15 people wounded in the Israeli strikes.
03:00Following these exchanges, both sides declared a ceasefire.
03:04Netanyahu announced Monday that Israel was holding fire at the moment because after we struck the
03:09terror regime in Tehran, it ceased attacking us.
03:13Iran's conditional halt.
03:15Iran's main military command, Qatam al-Ambiyah Central Headquarters, announced the cessation of
03:21strikes against Israel, but warned that any further Israeli aggression and malicious acts,
03:27including operations in southern Lebanon, would trigger a much more severe and crushing response
03:32from Tehran.
03:34Iranian officials have reportedly contacted Washington directly following the attacks,
03:39offering to negotiate a ceasefire in return for an end to Israeli strikes.
03:44Hezbollah and Lebanon complicate the equation.
03:46The Iranian-Israeli confrontation cannot be separated from the ongoing conflict in Lebanon.
03:52Hezbollah, Iran's primary proxy force, has been engaged in daily exchanges with Israeli forces
03:58along the northern border.
03:59On Monday, Hezbollah fired a rocket barrage at Israeli army vehicles and soldiers in southern Lebanon.
04:05In response, Israeli forces struck Tyre in southern Lebanon, killing five people and wounding eight,
04:11according to Lebanon's health ministry.
04:13A U.S.-mediated ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon was concluded in Washington on June 3rd,
04:20calling on Hezbollah to halt attacks and evacuate its fighters from areas south of the Latani River.
04:26However, Hezbollah and Iran, excluded from the talks, have rejected the agreement.
04:31The Lebanese government, represented by President Joseph Aoun, has accused Iran of using Lebanon
04:36as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with the United States.
04:40Washington's negotiation with bombs and bullets.
04:44The U.S. has continued military pressure on Iran, even as diplomatic efforts continue.
04:49On June 9th, Iran shot down a U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz
04:55using a Shahed kamikaze drone, according to CNN, citing unnamed U.S. administration sources.
05:01Both crew members were rescued by a U.S. naval drone.
05:04President Trump responded on truth social.
05:07The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.
05:11U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth subsequently announced additional airstrikes targeting critical
05:17facilities in Iran, describing the military operation as a tool to advance stalled negotiations.
05:23If negotiations require bombs and bullets, we will negotiate with bombs and bullets, Hegseth declared.
05:30Instead of those gentle taps, they're going to face bombs falling on critical Iranian facilities
05:35from the United States.
05:37The Pentagon chief framed the attacks not as a full-scale war, but as leveraging military
05:43pressure to reach the agreement President Trump desires.
05:46It's because the War Department is ready to set the conditions for reaching the agreement
05:50that President Trump wants.
05:55Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi has warned that any attack from the U.S. would
06:01be responded to.
06:02Despite defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. still chooses to test our resolve.
06:08Our powerful armed forces will not allow any attack or threat to go unanswered, Arakshi
06:14wrote on X.
06:15Mohammed Batur Galibov, Iran's chief negotiator, stated that ceasefire violations and
06:21naval blockades have been the cause of recent tensions, adding, we are not going to fight
06:26or negotiate, but we are going to fight on our own time and negotiate on our own time.
06:32Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bagahi expressed frustration with Washington's negotiating
06:38tactics.
06:39The status of the negotiations was clear to us from the outset, and most of the text had
06:44already been finalized, but the Americans kept changing their positions.
06:49Trump claims progress on deal.
06:52Despite the military escalation, Trump has expressed optimism about reaching an agreement with Iran.
06:58On Thursday, he announced he had canceled scheduled strikes against Iran, citing progress in ongoing
07:04negotiations.
07:06We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran, Trump told reporters, adding that an agreement
07:12between the two sides should be finalized in the next few days and might be signed in Europe.
07:17However, Iran has not confirmed any final conclusion about the agreement.
07:23Bagahi noted that Iran has proven it does not compromise on what it has defined as its red lines.
07:30Looking ahead.
07:31With Israel asserting its independent military capacity, the US wielding military pressure as a negotiation tool,
07:39and Iran refusing to compromise on its red lines, the path to a durable ceasefire remains uncertain.
07:45The upcoming NATO summit in Ankara and continued negotiations between Washington and Tehran
07:52will determine whether diplomacy can prevail over further military escalation.
07:57However, as Netanyahu has made clear, Israel reserves the right to act alone, with or without American approval.
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