Iran says attacks on Lebanon a "grave violation" of ceasefire
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A top Iranian official has told the BBC the US must choose war or peace, as the ceasefire appears compromised. Iran's deputy foreign minister said Tehran had warned Washington, after Israel's massive strikes on Lebanon, that it could not have it both ways. Saeed Khatibzadeh accuses Israel of a "massacre" in Lebanon - 203 people were killed on Wednesday, according to the health ministry.
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(Photo: Aftermath of an Israeli strike carried out on Wednesday, in Ain Al Mraiseh in Beirut. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:09.4 | Hello and welcome to NewsApr for the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.8 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:16.1 | And today, the Middle East ceasefire teeters after Israel carries out its heaviest air raid yet on Lebanon. |
| 0:21.9 | That's our top story today. |
| 0:24.2 | Also coming up what it's been like for the family of one of the crew members during NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon |
| 0:30.6 | and how your genetic makeup might affect how much weight you lose taking obesity drugs and how you might feel on them. That's coming |
| 0:39.5 | up in the second half of the program. But first, the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is |
| 0:45.5 | only 36 hours old, but it's already looking severely compromised. That's after Israel launched |
| 0:51.1 | its heaviest air strikes of the war against Hezbollah, Iran's proxy force in Lebanon. |
| 0:56.9 | More than 200 people were killed in a wave of attacks on Wednesday lasting just 10 minutes. |
| 1:03.0 | Pakistan, which brokered the truth, said that Lebanon was included, and so did Iran. |
| 1:09.1 | But the US Vice President J.D. Vance, who will lead his country's |
| 1:12.9 | delegation in upcoming negotiations, said they got it wrong. I actually think that is a reasonable |
| 1:19.5 | misunderstanding, but neither us nor the Israelis said that that was going to be part of the ceasefire. |
| 1:25.8 | Again, we're working with people to try to get through some of these things, but it's really fundamentally, we're on the right track, we've got a lot more to do, we got a lot more that the Iranians are going to have to accept as part of this negotiation, but I think we've got a strong hand and we're going to play it well. And today the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:44.2 | took to social media to insist that Israel would, quote, continue to hit Hezbollah wherever necessary |
| 1:49.7 | until we fully restore security to the residents of the north, north of Israel. Well, the UK and the European |
| 1:56.5 | Union have called for Israel to halt its attack, saying that Lebanon must be included in the |
| 2:01.7 | ceasefire. And speaking to the BBC in the past couple of hours, Pakistan's High Commissioner, |
| 2:06.8 | Dr. Mohamed Faisal, said that was still his country's understanding. |
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