U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned Tuesday that the cease-fire between Israel and Iran after 12 days of battle stays “in effect,” although he slammed each side for committing violations.
“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump had simply accused each Iran and Israel of violating the newly agreed cease-fire, in feedback to journalists in Washington earlier than his departure to attend a NATO summit in The Hague.
Earlier, Trump had urged Israel to chorus from responding to alleged Iranian assaults, posting on Truth Social: “DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS … BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”
He mentioned that any extra assaults after the agreed cease-fire could be a significant violation.
Trump introduced the cease-fire in a single day, and each Iran and Israel later confirmed it. Soon afterward nevertheless, the 2 sides traded accusations of additional assaults being carried out.
Israel had damaged the cease-fire 3 times and attacked numerous areas in Iran, the Iranian armed forces had been cited by the FARS news company as saying.
Earlier statements from the Israeli navy mentioned that Tehran had fired not less than one missile at northern Israel, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vowing robust counterattacks.
Iran denied firing rockets at Israel after the cease-fire took impact, in accordance with the Tasnim news company, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Trump introduced the cease-fire late Monday, specifying that it will be launched in phases over the next hours.
“It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” the U.S. president posted on Truth Social.
Iranian media subsequently reported {that a} cease-fire with Israel got here into pressure at 7:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m. GMT) on Tuesday, adopted by a affirmation from the workplace of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel had met its goals and extra, eradicating a “double existential threat – on both the nuclear issue and regarding ballistic missiles,” the Israeli authorities mentioned, after Netanyahu knowledgeable his Security Cabinet of the cease-fire settlement.
Iran and Israel continued exchanging hearth proper up till the cease-fire, with casualties reported on each side.
At least 9 individuals had been killed within the northern Iranian metropolis of Rasht forward of the cease-fire, in accordance with Tasnim. An additional 33 individuals had been injured within the assault on a residential space, it wrote.
State media reported {that a} senior Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in Israeli assaults within the morning.
In a morning assault from Iran on Israel, not less than 5 individuals had been killed and 20 others injured, in accordance with an area rescue service in Beersheba.
The Israeli air pressure attacked and destroyed missile launch pads in western Iran that had been used within the newest assaults on Israeli territory, the navy introduced.
If it holds, the cease-fire might be thought-about a hit for Trump, after the United States joined the battle on the weekend with surgical strikes on key Iranian nuclear amenities.
“On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, ‘THE 12 DAY WAR,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Early Sunday, the U.S. struck three key nuclear websites in Iran in assist of Israel.
The U.S. intervention, which concerned bunker-busting bombs dropped on the essential uranium enrichment facility in Fordow and the nuclear plant in Natanz, in addition to strikes on one other facility in Isfahan, was seen as a pointy escalation within the conflict between Iran and Israel.
Israel launched large-scale assaults on Iranian targets on June 13, saying it goals to stop the nation from constructing a nuclear weapon, a cost Tehran has constantly denied.
Iran retaliated with waves of missile and drone strikes on Israel. There have been deaths and casualties on each side.
Source: www.dailysabah.com