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‘We Told You So’: Israel Watches the Iran Ceasefire Unravel

Iran Signed the Deal and Read It as an American Surrender. Israel Warned the Gap Would Surface — and Now It Has

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Nadav Eyal
Jul 09, 2026
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The last seventy-two hours have seen a clear fracture in the ceasefire between the United States and Iran.

It began with Iranian attacks on oil tankers that, as far as the Islamic Republic was concerned, had strayed from the corridor it had allocated to them in the Strait of Hormuz.

It continued with the U.S. military striking dozens of targets inside Ir…

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