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‘Let’s not blow it’: Trump calls for restraint after Israel launches fresh airstrikes on Beirut

US president says ‘all sides should stand down’ as mediators seek to conclude preliminary US-Iran peace deal negotiations

Donald Trump was forced to call for restraint on Sunday after Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut as mediators sought to conclude negotiations on a preliminary peace deal between Iran and the US that would bring the three-month war in the Middle East to a definitive end.

Trump played down new Israeli strikes but said “all sides should stand down”.

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Iranian hardliners in vociferous push to reject proposed peace deal with US

Those in favour forced to defend themselves against claims the terms of the proposal amount to capitulation

Iranian hardliners have mounted a rearguard rejection of a proposed deal with the US as backers in the regime defend themselves against charges it does not guarantee sanctions relief, compensation or control of the strait of Hormuz.

“The fact that they say we won and America has retreated is a blatant lie,” the Iranian MP Kamran Ghazanfari said. Meysam Nili, the managing director of Rajanews and brother-in-law of the hardline former president Ebrahim Raisi, called the deal on the table a catastrophic capitulation. He urged Iranians not to sit quietly.

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