US lifts naval blockade as Iran's supreme leader says Trump made deal 'out of desperation'

Trump did not directly respond to Khamanei's statement, but posted on Truth Social that he expects a ceasefire to take effect "on all fronts", including between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and that he expects countries in the Middle East to "maintain their commitment to allowing our negotiations" to take place.After the signing of the deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of maintaining Israel's close ties with the US, saying Washington had stood "shoulder to shoulder" with the country during the war with Iran.Netanyahu's comments come after members of the Israeli prime minister's cabinet criticised the deal.In response, Vance said critics of the deal should "wake up and smell the reality," adding: "If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world."Vance did not specify in the briefing who in the Israeli cabinet had criticised the deal, but in an interview with the New York Times also published on Thursday, he named the country's national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich as critics of the deal.He said: "I guess my response to them would be - what is your exact proposal? You're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."The US-Iran agreement to extend the ceasefire centres around 14 core points, including an end to conflict "on all fronts", an end to the blockade, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, for Iran to never have a nuclear weapon, and commits a $300bn fund for the "reconstruction and economic development" of the country - although the US is not required to contribute.But both Israel and Hezbollah have carried out strikes against each other since the US-Iran agreement was announced, including strikes reported in Lebanon on Thursday that killed three people.