New Delhi, June 8 -- The order came from Washington, and for once Israel obeyed. A senior Israeli official confirmed to Channel 12 on Monday that Israel has halted its strikes on Iran at the explicit request of President Donald Trump - a pause that carries enormous diplomatic weight precisely because it arrived after a weekend in which Jerusalem had made unmistakably clear it would act regardless of American preferences.

a threshold Israel had previously approached but not consistently crossed during the renewed fighting.

The distinction matters because Tehran has now tied the two fronts together. Iran's emergency military command, Khatam al-Anbiya, announced Monday that it was ending its own operations against Israel - but framed the p...