The Daily Populous Monday June 8th, 2026 morning edition
Authored by bbc.com and submitted by One-Emu-1103

What's happened since the April ceasefire?

A ceasefire between the US and Iran came into effect on 8 April. Israel had backed the deal but said it "does not include Lebanon".

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) promised a "regret-inducing response" if strikes on Lebanon continued.

Since then, the shaky ceasefire has been tested and there have been mixed messages over the progress of a deal between the US and Iran to bring an end to the war.

Here's a timeline of events since then:

8 April: The same day the ceasefire began, at 14:15 local time: Israel announced it had struck 100 targets in Lebanon within 10 minutes. This kills over 300 people, Lebanese officials say, making it the country's deadliest day in decades. An Iranian minister calls this a "grave violation" of the ceasefire.

13 April: The US begins a naval blockade on Iranian ports, after talks in Pakistan between Washington and Tehran failed to reach an agreement.

16 April: An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire - announced by Trump - comes into effect and is set to last ten days.

17 April: Iran says that the Strait of Hormuz - a key oil shipping channel blocked by Tehran during the war - has reopened for commercial ships. This lasts until 18 April, when Tehran said it would close the strait due to the continuing US naval blockade.

23 April: A second round of talks is scheduled to take place in Washington between Lebanon and Israel. Trump says the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been extended by three weeks.

24 April: US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are meant to head to Pakistan for talks with Iran, but Trump cancels this trip, claiming the US has "all the cards". His words come after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country is "yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy".

3 May: Trump announces Project Freedom - which aims to help guide ships stranded by Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

By 5 May: However, he says the project will be paused "for a short period of time" to see whether the US and Iran can come to an agreement.

12 May: Trump says the month-long ceasefire between the US and Iran is on "massive life support". Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf says Iran's armed forces were, "ready to respond and to teach a lesson for any aggression".

24 May: The US president says an agreement with Iran has been "largely negotiated" and details will be announced soon. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson warned that a convergence in US and Iranian positions did not mean agreements would be reached on key issues.

6 June: US and Iran exchanged strikes in Gulf - American forces targeted Iranian drones and radar sites, and Iran fired missiles at US bases.

7 June: Iran launches waves of missiles at Israel in what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps calls the "beginning of a full week of continuous strikes". The Iranian strikes came hours after Israel said it struck Hezbollah targets in southern Beirut.

Laurie_Van_Carr on June 7th, 2026 at 21:27 UTC »

Loathsome though the Iranian regime is, they do seem to be playing the hand they've been dealt pretty well.

They seem to have understood that what stands in the way of them getting an acceptable deal out of Trump is that Israel will immediately sabotage it to pursue its own maximalist aims.

So, by making it explicit that they will retaliate against Israeli actions in Lebanon, they're trying to drive a wedge between Israel and Trump as a means of constraining Israel.

Given Trump's indiscipline and all-encompassing self-interest, that seems like a pretty plausible strategy.

ComprehensiveKiwi489 on June 7th, 2026 at 20:03 UTC »

Apparently, Trump had a comment a few minutes ago, where he stated that he was about to sign a deal with Iran on Monday or Tuesday, but then this happened. The levels of delusion is insane.

One-Emu-1103 on June 7th, 2026 at 19:48 UTC »

Iran has fired multiple waves of missiles at northern Israel

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Corps Guard (IRGC) says this is "the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes"

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it is working to intercept the threats and sirens have been sounded in "several areas across the country"

It had warned it was "preparing for potential fire" after Israel hit the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier on Sunday - a move Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was "in response to Hezbollah's firing at Israeli territory"