{"id":6466,"date":"2026-07-09T05:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/news\/7732891\/the-latest-trump-launches-new-strikes-on-iran-after-saying-ceasefire-is-over\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:45:16","slug":"the-latest-trump-spoke-with-netanyahu-about-us-moves-in-the-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6466\/the-latest-trump-spoke-with-netanyahu-about-us-moves-in-the-persian-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest: Trump spoke with Netanyahu about US \u2018moves\u2019 in the Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> spoke Thursday about Turkey as well as U.S. moves in the Persian Gulf, according to the prime minister\u2019s office. Turkey and Israel have acrimonious relations. Netanyahu has urged Trump not to sell jets to Turkey, saying it would put Israel in danger.<\/p>\n

The U.S. launched new airstrikes against Iran<\/a> hours after Trump said recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> signaled the end of the ceasefire and threatened to escalate the conflict if they didn\u2019t stop. Iran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Kuwait and Qatar and accused the U.S. of striking near its sole nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n

Back-and-forth attacks have repeatedly threatened the ceasefire, but Thursday\u2019s appeared bigger all around. And Trump\u2019s mixed messaging \u2014 approving back-to-back military strikes while insisting they don\u2019t mean a return to full-scale war \u2014 is fueling uncertainty about what comes next<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s a negotiation tactic or a signal of further escalation, mediators are scrambling to save the interim deal. The inflamed tensions could also spell trouble for Republicans in November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a> if gas prices stay high.<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest:<\/p>\n

The final funeral procession for Iran\u2019s late supreme leader<\/p>\n

People pressed forward to touch the vehicle carrying Ali Khamenei\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Many carried Iranian flags, images of Khamanei or banners evoking Shiite Islam\u2019s long history of martyrs.<\/p>\n

Some signs called for the death of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been laid to rest months after being killed in Iran war<\/p>\n

Khamenei ruled Iran for nearly 37 years before dying in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes that started the war Feb. 28. He was laid to rest in his hometown of Mashhad early Friday after days of public mourning.<\/p>\n

Khamenei is only the second ruler of the nation to be buried in the city. In 1747, Nader Shah was buried there after he was assassinated following nearly 11 years in power.<\/p>\n

The funeral processions began Saturday, with authorities shutting down streets, airspace and daily life in Tehran and other cities, as throngs commemorated the man who led Iran with an iron fist for decades while confronting the West.<\/p>\n

A bitterly divided Iran grapples with Khamenei\u2019s legacy as he is laid to rest<\/p>\n

The funeral for Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was designed to showcase unity in a country that is bitterly split over his decades-long rule. Supporters thronged the streets for a leader they view as a martyr who defied the West and Israel.<\/p>\n

But Khamenei\u2019s long rule left large sectors of Iranian society disillusioned as he oversaw increasingly bloody crackdowns, economic stagnation and the empowerment of the Revolutionary Guard. Anger and despair run deep after a January crackdown killed thousands.<\/p>\n

The war launched by the United States and Israel brought more suffering while leaving the government intact, deepening the feeling of hopelessness among its opponents.<\/p>\n

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How a push to disarm Hezbollah is deepening divisions in Lebanon and raising fears of civil war<\/p>\n

A deal between Lebanon and Israel was billed as paving the way for peace<\/a>. But in Lebanon, it is deepening longtime divisions and raising fears of political paralysis or even a return to civil war.<\/p>\n

The U.S.-brokered deal envisions an Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanon<\/a> and an eventual peace agreement between the two countries \u2014 which technically remain in a state of war nearly 80 years after Israel\u2019s establishment. But the agreement says a full Israeli withdrawal will happen only after Hezbollah is disarmed, infuriating the Iran-backed militant group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tensions have stirred up memories of Lebanon\u2019s devastating 1975-1990 civil war and reminded many of more recent clashes between Hezbollah gunmen and pro-government fighters in 2008. They also have raised deep questions over whether the U.S.-brokered deal will be able to get off the ground.<\/p>\n

A resumption of the war between the U.S. and Iran<\/a> would further complicate the deal\u2019s prospects and raise the risk of renewed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

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Stocks recover losses, and oil prices ease as calm returns to financial markets worldwide<\/p>\n

Stocks rose, and oil prices<\/a> eased Thursday as financial markets calmed in the wait to see what will come next<\/a> after President Donald Trump<\/a> raised doubts about the temporary truce<\/a> in the war with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 climbed 0.8% and more than recovered its loss from the day before<\/a>, even though the United States launched new airstrikes<\/a> against Iran, which responded by targeting U.S. allies in the Middle East. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 139 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.3%.<\/p>\n

In the oil market, prices gave back much of their jumps from the day before. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, fell 2.2% to $76.30. That\u2019s down from $78.02 the day before though still above its $71.80 price from the end of last week.<\/p>\n

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Trump speaks with Netanyahu, and raises \u2018security concerns\u2019 about Turkey<\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister\u2019s office posted on the social platform X that the pair spoke on Thursday and that Netanyahu \u201craised the severity of the statements made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his people against the existence of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

After this week\u2019s NATO summit in Turkey, Trump indicated he may be ready to have the U.S. sell F-35 fighter jets to Erdogan\u2019s country — but he also says he\u2019s not yet fully made up his mind.<\/p>\n

Turkey and Israel have acrimonious relations. Netanyahu has urged Trump not to sell the jets to Turkey, saying it would put Israel in danger.<\/p>\n

The statement from Netanyahu\u2019s office also said Trump had updated the prime minister on American moves in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n

South Florida\u2019s Palm Beach airport renamed President Donald J. Trump International<\/p>\n

A South Florida airport has officially changed its name to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.<\/p>\n

Signs for the Palm Beach International Airport have been removed, while new signs were unveiled Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump Force One,\u201d a Boeing 757 owned by The Trump Organization, was the first plane to arrive at the airport under its new name, shortly after 5 a.m. The president\u2019s son, Eric Trump, was one of the passengers.<\/p>\n

The Trump family regularly uses the West Palm Beach airport when they visit Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in nearby Palm Beach. A stretch of road<\/a> from the airport to Trump\u2019s estate was renamed Donald J. Trump Boulevard earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Deal between Israel and Lebanon is moving forward, US official says<\/p>\n

After weeks of stagnation, an American official said Thursday that the U.S.-brokered framework agreement soon will shift to technical discussions in Rome.<\/p>\n

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic details, said \u201cpilot zones\u201d that both sides had agreed to will launch in the coming days while additional zones are mapped out and planned.<\/p>\n

The zones will be where the Israeli military is to turn over control to the Lebanese army after clearing the areas of any Hezbollah presence. U.S. Central Command is coordinating with Israel and Lebanon on the zones, the official said.<\/p>\n

The dates of the meetings and the location of the zones were not yet clear. A State Department spokesperson said they were not previewing those details yet.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Farnoush Amiri<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s foreign minister speaks to regional leaders about the escalating tensions with the US<\/p>\n

Abbas Araghchi said on his Telegram channel on Thursday that he spoke with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Oman. He also spoke with Pakistan\u2019s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, who has been one of the main mediators in the war.<\/p>\n

Araghchi repeated Iran\u2019s assertion that the U.S. has violated the interim peace deal reached last month. The U.S. says Iran violated the deal by firing on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic outreach suggested efforts may be underway to reduce tensions.<\/p>\n

Tarps go up as part of Trump\u2019s restoration project to the front of the White House<\/p>\n

Crews have draped tarps over the towering stone columns on the north side of the White House, where work is underway to scrape away decades of paint.<\/p>\n

The new tarps on the building\u2019s fa\u00e7ade are partially see-through. They feature images of columns designed to cover the actual ornate stone columns beneath.<\/p>\n

Scaffolding went up several days ago for work on the columns. It is the latest in dozens of projects Trump has led to remake the White House to his own tastes \u2013 including a massive ballroom and helipad on the South Lawn.<\/p>\n

The White House hasn\u2019t provided details on what is being done to the columns or how much it will cost. But Trump said on Monday: \u201cWe\u2019ve taken about 150 years of paint off of the columns\u201d and added that, \u201cIf you don\u2019t strip the paint off, it gets worse and worse and worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ships are still going through the Strait of Hormuz but the situation remains volatile<\/p>\n

Bridget Diakun, senior risk and compliance analyst for maritime data company Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence, said in a news briefing that ships were still passing through the strait as of Wednesday, but Lloyd\u2019s is still reviewing the numbers since some passages are \u201cdark,\u201d when ships stop broadcasting signals that show their location.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation does remain really volatile,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence said preliminary data shows there were at least 576 transits in June, up from 233 in May, but down from 3,131 in June 2025.<\/p>\n

Non-Iranian traffic in June included 264 outbound vessels and 137 inbound ships.<\/p>\n

Outbound ships included bulkers, crude oil tankers and product tankers. Inbound ships included crude oil tankers, product tankers, bulk carriers and gas carriers.<\/p>\n

In June, there was an even split between \u201cdark\u201d transits and online transits that broadcast their locations.<\/p>\n

Germany reaches a deal with the US to buy long-range Tomahawk missiles, Merz says<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the agreement on the long-range cruise missiles, which are used to strike targets deep inside enemy territory, was reached this week on the sidelines of the NATO summit <\/a> in Turkey\u2019s capital, Ankara.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will close an important strategic gap in our defense, and at the same time, we will work to develop our own European systems and station them in Europe,\u201d Merz told parliament after returning from the two-day summit.<\/p>\n

The deal struck with the Trump administration amounts to broader export of American know-how to some of its major allies in Europe, whose security posture has been upended by Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Former Olympian pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool damage case after Trump alleged vandalism<\/p>\n

The former Olympic canoe racer pleaded not guilty Thursday to deliberately damaging the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/a>, a politically charged case that his defense attorneys and other Trump administration critics have derided as an abuse of prosecutorial power.<\/p>\n

David Hearn, who competed in three Summer Olympics, entered the plea during his initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court. Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, was indicted last Thursday<\/a> on a single felony count of property destruction.<\/p>\n

Trump ordered a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Reflecting Pool ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary this month, but the project has been plagued with problems. Workers have used chemicals to curtail an algae bloom. Trump has said the pool likely would need to be drained again for liner repairs<\/a> after chunks of blue coating were seen floating at the surface.<\/p>\n

Trump has claimed without substantiation<\/a> that vandals dumped fertilizer into the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine says its Patriot production will take months<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit<\/a> in Turkey, Trump said the U.S. will meet a longstanding request from Ukraine and give it a license to make the Patriot air defense systems.<\/a> He also praised Zelenskyy for doing \u201can amazing job\u201d \u2014 a sharp change in tone from past criticisms of the Ukrainian leader.<\/p>\n

But setting up domestic production of the mobile, surface-to-air systems will take many months, said Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine\u2019s defense minister.<\/p>\n

A production license would typically come with technical process documentation, training for specialists, supplier contacts and foreign consultants to help launch manufacturing, Beskrestnov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n

The main obstacle would be time, rather than Ukraine\u2019s technical or organizational capacity, he added.<\/p>\n

Eswatini receives 11 people deported from the US as part of migration crackdown<\/p>\n

The southern African kingdom of Eswatini<\/a> has accepted a fourth group of people deported from the United States under a bilateral agreement to host third-country nationals, with 11 people arriving this week, the government said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Acting government spokesperson Thabile Mdluli said the group, predominantly from African countries, would remain in the kingdom temporarily while their rights were protected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government reaffirms that, during their temporary stay in the Kingdom, the fundamental rights of the third-country nationals will be respected and protected in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Eswatini and the Kingdom\u2019s international obligations,\u201d Mdluli said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Under a series of often-secret agreements that are part of a broad U.S. crackdown on immigration, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say.<\/p>\n

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Global markets are mixed and oil prices rise as Iran and US launch new attacks<\/p>\n

Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.1% before the opening bell Thursday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1%. Nasdaq futures were up 0.5%.<\/p>\n

Oil prices inched up again Thursday, with Brent crude, the international standard, rising 64 cents to to $78.66 per barrel. It briefly topped $80 on Wednesday. Before the Iran war began, Brent oil was trading at around $72 a barrel. Earlier optimism over an interim peace deal recently brought it back to prewar levels.<\/p>\n

Benchmark U.S. crude rose 54 cents to $74.06 a barrel.<\/p>\n

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New attacks raise questions about what comes next in the Iran war<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> says he believes the ceasefire with Iran<\/a> is over. He says he\u2019s not sure he wants a deal anymore and says the U.S. should \u201cfinish the job.\u201d But he also insists continued attacks<\/a> don\u2019t mean a return to war or long-term action.<\/p>\n

The confusion and uncertainty in Trump\u2019s mixed messaging<\/a> and his approval of back-to-back military strikes<\/a> leave major questions about what comes next in the conflict, just weeks after difficult diplomacy to reach even an initial deal between the longtime adversaries.<\/p>\n

The whipsawing rhetoric could be a strategy to increase the pressure on Tehran to stop attacking ships transporting oil and natural gas in the Strait of Hormuz <\/a> and bend to U.S. demands on its nuclear program<\/a> \u2014 something Trump has tried before.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s a negotiation tactic or a signal of an escalation in fighting, mediators are scrambling to save the interim deal and the actions risk further inflaming tensions.<\/p>\n

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