Iran fires ballistic missiles at Israel, first strike since April
Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel on June 7, 2026, Israel says, marking the first bombardment since the April ceasefire. The strikes followed an Israeli attack on the outskirts of Beirut earlier that day and coincided with reports of an explosion at a missile site in Isfahan and air-defense activity over Tehran. Iran's use of long-range ballistic missiles escalates beyond prior proxy attacks and raises the risk of a broader regional confrontation involving Israel, Lebanon, and potentially the United States.
Four-byline alert: 🚨 JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Sunday that Iran has launched missiles at it in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal to end the war. apnews.com/article/iran...
Blah Gerrera23It's not a "fragile ceasefire" if they're shooting missiles at each other, it's an "ongoing war". wtf is with the dumb headlines?
Cindy Strait20Israel keeps bombing Lebanon. Do they really think these ars on just for them to do the bombing? Do they really expect no retaliation at all? Israel has NEVER honored any of these so called ceasefires and I really wish the media would stop calling it that. Call them rearming pauses or something.
Jason15I never thought I'd be defending Iran but wouldn't it be Israel who broke the ceasefire if they first dropped bombs on Beirut. Or am I getting misinformation?
Steve12I don't think so. The President said Iran's military capability was destroyed.
Blue_Riverrrr11It seems that Iran was the only one observing the “ceasefire“. Israel & the U.S. continued bombing and attacking Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. Now that Iran fires back - after many many warnings that the ceasefire was being violated - the headlines read that Iran broke the ceasefire. Absolute BS.
Russ Copeland6Retaliatory strikes after Israel struck southern Lebanon
Lisa Farrar5I don't know that I would trust this statement from them. Kinda like how we don't trust anything Putin says about Ukraine. Or anything Trump says period.
dizzy37.bsky.social3IDK, at this point, would anyone totally rule out Netanyahu staging some bombs to go off in Israel so he could justify his ongoing hostilities? I mean, before Oct 7th, he'd been sending money through Qatar to fund Hamas in Gaza. Who would put anything past him to stay in power and out of prison?
K. Moore 🦋📚🎼2AP lede should also include that it was in retaliation over Israel bombing Beirut.
can anybody take a stab at explaining to me what Iran was thinking with the missiles at Israel today?
Leah McElrath98Sending a message to Israel after Israel crossed a red line in bombing Beirut. Lebanon as a whole was part of the ceasefire. Israel has nonetheless continued its offensive. Iran held back until Israel hit Beirut.
#StupidSuez78Israel agreed not to strike Beirut and then struck Beirut and Iran is affirming that Lebanon is in fact going to be part of the deal or there'll be no deal
post malone ergo propter malone51ok, ceremonial counterstrike-as-promised coupled with "and now we're done" message which is not landing quite as hoped?
escapedexplorer.bsky.social19"look if y'all [i.e., Israel and the US, separately or together] aren't going to stop bombing, invading, and otherwise de facto annexing southern Lebanon, parts of Syria, etc., we don't consider that abiding by the ceasefire and so you need to be made aware of that" ?
ashley 🌹13payback for strikes in Beirut I believe
Rosvo113from what I understand, the logic was iran saying that they'll retaliate if beirut is bombed by israel and then it was bombed and so they followed through
Bartholomew Collins10They want to keep trump from attending game 3
Warren Terra7The obvious answer is that Israel broke the latest ceasefire with its attacks in Lebanon (or at least broke it on a scale the other breaks couldn't match) and Iran wanted to reply, and also to show it had managed to retain some long-range strike capability, and just generally seem proactive.
William Easley7Sounds like Israel bombed somewhere in Beirut and Iran had said that the ceasefire holds as longs as Beirut doesn’t get bombed
Clay Copper5Lack of a monopoly on violence
Christo Silvia5I think it's harder than you think to get the missile guys not to shoot missiles if they want to. It's like, their thing. The missiles make a cool sound when you launch them.
“Exquisite Class” Posts4Reminding Trump the ceasefire is contingent on Lebanon and showing their continued support for Hezbollah. Israel struck the suburbs of Beirut which Iran said they would consider a clear violation of the current ceasefire
Insipid Twaddle3They had set a red line regarding attacks on Beirut, and Israel assassinated a couple Lebanese military officers in Beirut yesterday.
Wandering Hoo3"Fuck you, talk shit get hit" I don't think there's a grand strategy here.
Gluten-free Seitan3That they needed to support Hezbollah, which is only in this war to support Iran.
Burning1always3I'll take a stab. These retaliatory strikes are essentially a leverage play. Iran is forcing Israel’s allies into a corner: either exert real pressure on them to stop operations in Lebanon, or face a wider regional conflict that threatens the entire regional/global landscape.
joelcawley.bsky.social2Not hard. They were clear that if Israel attacked Beirut they would respond. Israel did and so they did as promised.
Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️2They wanted to showcase that they 1) have the missiles, and 2) they were actually pissed at Israel this time and not Kuwait for giving them a bloody nose, so 3) they sought to hit Israel and came up with another damp squib, if you believe Israel.
worm2making it clear that if israel doesn’t stop there’s no chance of a peace deal
