By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and MELANIE LIDMAN, Related Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to carry Tuesday after initially faltering, and U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with each side, saying that they had fought “for thus lengthy and so exhausting” that they have no idea what they’re doing.
However whilst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Israel had introduced Iran’s nuclear program “to damage,” a brand new U.S. intelligence report discovered that this system has been set again only some months after U.S. strikes over the weekend, in keeping with two individuals conversant in the evaluation.
The early report issued Monday by the Protection Intelligence Company was described to The Related Press by two individuals conversant in it. They weren’t licensed to deal with the matter publicly and spoke on situation of anonymity.
The report additionally contradicts statements from Trump, who has mentioned the Iranian nuclear program was “fully and totally obliterated.” The White Home referred to as the evaluation “flat-out unsuitable.”
After the truce was imagined to take impact, Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace, and the Israeli finance minister vowed that “Tehran will tremble.”
The Iranian army denied firing on Israel, state media reported, however explosions boomed and sirens sounded throughout northern Israel within the morning, and an Israeli army official mentioned two Iranian missiles have been intercepted.
Trump advised reporters on the White Home earlier than departing for a NATO summit that, in his view, each side had violated the nascent settlement. He had notably sturdy phrases for Israel, an in depth ally, whereas suggesting Iran might have fired on the nation by mistake.
However later he mentioned the deal was saved.
“ISRAEL will not be going to assault Iran. All planes will flip round and head residence, whereas doing a pleasant “Aircraft Wave” to Iran. No person might be harm, the Ceasefire is in impact!” Trump mentioned in his Fact Social put up.
Certainly, Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned he held off on harder strikes towards Iran after talking to Trump.
A dozen tense days
The battle, now in its twelfth day, started with Israel focusing on Iranian nuclear and army websites, saying it couldn’t permit Tehran to develop atomic weapons and that it feared the Islamic Republic was shut. Iran has lengthy maintained that its program is peaceable.
If the truce holds, it is going to present a world sense of reduction after the U.S. intervened by dropping bunker-buster bombs on nuclear websites — a transfer that risked additional destabilizing the risky area.
Trump phoned Netanyahu after the American bombing on Sunday and advised him to not anticipate extra U.S. army assaults and that he ought to search a diplomatic answer with Iran, a senior White Home official mentioned.
Trump’s place was that the U.S. had eliminated any imminent risk posed by Iran, in keeping with the official, who was not licensed to remark publicly about delicate diplomatic talks and spoke on situation of anonymity.
Israel adopted up the U.S. air assaults by increasing the sorts of targets it was hitting.
After Tehran launched a restricted retaliatory strike Monday on a U.S. army base in Qatar, Trump introduced the ceasefire.
A protracted battle may have a broad financial impression if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, a significant transport channel.
China, which is Iran’s largest buying and selling companion and solely remaining oil buyer, condemned the U.S. assaults and mentioned it was involved a couple of “spiral of escalations” with out a ceasefire. Trump steered the ceasefire would permit Iranian oil to proceed to circulation, saying on social media that China may preserve buying crude from Iran.
Israeli troopers work amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed a number of individuals, in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photograph/Bernat Armangue)
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Israeli troopers work amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed a number of individuals, in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photograph/Bernat Armangue)
Develop
Israel accuses Iran of violating the truce. Iran denies allegation
The deal received off to a rocky begin.
An Israeli army official who spoke on the situation of anonymity according to army rules mentioned Iran launched two missiles at Israel hours into the tenuous ceasefire. Each have been intercepted, the official mentioned.
Iranian state tv reported that the army denied firing missiles after the beginning of the ceasefire — whereas condemning Israel for predawn strikes of its personal.
A type of assaults killed a high-profile nuclear scientist, Mohammad Reza Sedighi Saber, at his father-in-law’s residence in northern Iran, Iranian state TV reported.
Trump’s frustration with the early morning strikes was palpable as he spoke to reporters earlier than departing for the Hague. He mentioned each side had violated the settlement and used an expletive to hammer residence his level.
“We mainly have two international locations which were combating so lengthy and so exhausting that they don’t know what the f—- they’re doing,” he mentioned.
Breakthrough introduced after hostilities unfold
Netanyahu mentioned Israel agreed to the ceasefire with Iran, in coordination with Trump, after the nation achieved all of its struggle objectives, together with eradicating the specter of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile packages.
In a televised assertion, Netanyahu mentioned late Tuesday that Israel took out high generals and nuclear scientists and destroyed nuclear services in Natanz, Isfahan and the Arak heavy water reactor. He thanked Trump for his assist.
It’s unclear what position Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s chief, performed within the talks. He mentioned earlier on social media that he wouldn’t give up.
Trump mentioned Tuesday that he wasn’t searching for regime change in Iran, two days after floating the thought himself in a social media put up.
“I don’t need it,” Trump advised reporters on Air Power One. “Regime change takes chaos and, ideally, we don’t need to see a lot chaos.”
Earlier than the ceasefire was introduced, Israel’s army mentioned Iran launched 20 missiles towards Israel. Police mentioned they broken not less than three densely packed residential buildings within the metropolis of Beersheba. First responders mentioned they retrieved 4 our bodies from one constructing and have been looking for extra. No less than 20 individuals have been injured.
Outdoors, the shells of burned out automobiles littered the streets. Damaged glass and rubble coated the realm. Police mentioned some individuals have been injured whereas inside their flats’ bolstered protected rooms, which are supposed to face up to rockets however not direct hits from ballistic missiles.
The assault adopted a restricted Iranian missile assault Monday on a U.S. army base in Qatar in retaliation for earlier American bombing of its nuclear websites. The U.S. was warned by Iran prematurely, and there have been no casualties.
Elsewhere, U.S. forces shot down drones attacking the Ain al-Assad base within the desert in western Iraq and a base subsequent to the Baghdad airport, whereas one other one crashed, in keeping with a senior U.S. army official, who spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not licensed to remark publicly.
No casualties have been reported, and no group claimed duty for the assaults in Iraq. Some Iran-backed Iraqi militias had beforehand threatened to focus on U.S. bases if the U.S. attacked Iran.
Battle has killed tons of
In Israel, not less than 28 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,000 wounded within the struggle. Israeli strikes on Iran have killed not less than 974 individuals and wounded 3,458 others, in keeping with the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists.
The group, which has supplied detailed casualty figures from Iranian unrest, mentioned of these killed, it recognized 387 civilians and 268 safety pressure personnel.
The U.S. has evacuated some 250 Americans and their quick relations from Israel by authorities, army and constitution flights that started over the weekend, a State Division official mentioned.
There are roughly 700,000 Americans, most of them twin U.S.-Israeli residents, believed to be in Israel.
Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Related Press writers Gabe Levin in Dubai; Josef Federman in Jerusalem; Sam Mednick in Beersheba, Israel; Amir Vahdat in Iran; Michelle Value, Mary Clare Jalonick, Darlene Superville, Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak in Washington; and Seung Min Kim in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, contributed to this report.
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