Iran's Fars News Agency quotes a source 'familiar with details' saying Tehran was fully prepared to strike the 'Zionist regime' in retaliation for the Beirut strike but canceled after the US offered additional concessions — including the immediate lifting of the naval blockade and an immediate halt to hostilities on all fronts. The report is the first on-record Iranian attribution since earlier unconfirmed accounts of the cancellation.
A Fars News Agency report published at 13:57 Jerusalem on Monday provides the first on-record Iranian attribution for the decision to cancel a planned retaliatory strike. The source, described only as 'familiar with details,' says Tehran was fully prepared to attack Israel in response to the strike on Dahieh but stood down after the United States offered additional concessions — specifically, the immediate lifting of the naval blockade (rather than after 30 days) and an immediate halt to hostilities on all fronts. This follows a series of reports earlier on Monday that traced the cancellation back to last-minute U.S. offers.
As The Zioneer reported throughout the day on Monday, initial accounts of the cancellation emerged from Iranian sources cited by The New York Times at 00:52 Jerusalem, attributing the decision to an intervention by President Trump. Further reports from the same sources described an internal Iranian debate over whether striking would disrupt ceasefire talks, while Fars News itself — at versions 6 and 7 (both published at 00:52 Jerusalem) — reported the concessions as including Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and an immediate lifting of the naval blockade. The 13:57 Fars report now specifies that the blockade lifting would be immediate and that all hostilities would be halted.
This development sits within a broader diplomatic context that The Zioneer has been tracking. As reported on Sunday Jun 14 at 21:03 Jerusalem, Channel 12 indicated that Israel assessed President Trump would soon announce a concession to Iran to prevent retaliation for the Dahieh strike. Earlier on Friday Jun 12 at 13:22 Jerusalem, Fars News itself reported that the U.S. had retreated from some of its positions in negotiations with Iran. And on Mon Jun 8 at 22:53 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported that a Trump tweet had halted a major Israeli strike on Iranian infrastructure.
The Fars News report gives the cancellation a named attribution for the first time, adding weight to the narrative. However, the source remains a single anonymous official. No official on-record statement has been published by the Iranian government, and no independent corroboration has emerged from U.S. or other sources. The precise specifics of the concessions offered by Washington have not been confirmed by any American official.
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