US President Donald Trump says Israel and Iran have both violated the ceasefire, but that he was “really unhappy” with Israel. He called on Israel to stop dropping bombs and to “blring your pilots home, now!”
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says he has ordered “intense strikes” on Tehran, accusing Iran of violating the truce brokered by the US and Qatar.
Netanyahu’s office has released a statement addressing Israel’s latest military operations in Tehran.
The office said Israel’s military “destroyed a radar installation near Tehran” in retaliation to several earlier Iranian missile strikes that it described as “violations” of the truce.
But following a conversation with Trump, Netanyahu “refrained from further strikes”, according to the statement.
“In the call, President Trump expressed his deep appreciation for Israel, saying it had achieved all the objectives of the war. He also expressed confidence in the stability of the ceasefire,” it read.
Some Iranian authorities are already celebrating a win after Trump announced a ceasefire, despite the complications.
Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said the “victory” meant that Iran “broke the horn of the US and the West in the region” and showed them Iran’s power.
Mahdi Mohammadi, a top aide to parliament chief and former IRGC commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, also celebrated what he called a “major, history-making victory”.
“A new era has begun,” he wrote on X.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told state television that others must know no one can “uproot” the Iranian nuclear programme.
“Considering the capacities and abilities that we possess, the nuclear industry must persist, and it will not be stopped.”
Authority has demanded that a ceasefire deal announced in the Iran-Israel war be widened to include the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
“The Palestinian Presidency welcomed US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire agreement,” President Mahmoud Abbas’s office said in a statement carried by official news agency Wafa.
It added: “We demand the completion of this step by achieving a ceasefire that includes the Gaza Strip.”
And today, he is putting Israel and Iran side by side and criticising both of them, while giving Iran the benefit of the doubt and talking about Israel’s activities in a different way.
I don’t know how this is going to be received in Tehran, but probably it’s going to have a positive impact. It might give the impression that Trump is serious about this ceasefire.
But how will this be translated into realistic diplomatic activities? Are the Iranians going to meet Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff?
And are the Iranians ready in the future to meet with President Trump himself?
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has called on Iran and Israel to fully stop hostilities after US President Donald Trump announced a bilateral ceasefire.
“We welcome the news that Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire,” the ministry wrote, urging both parties to “fully comply” and calling for “dialogue and diplomatic channels to remain open.”
Aljazeera
