President Donald Trump said that a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was in force Tuesday after the agreement initially weakened, and the American chief expressed deep frustration towards the two parties.
Israel had previously accused Iran of having launched missiles in its airspace after the truce was supposed to take effect, and the Israeli finance minister promised that “Tehran tremble”.
The Iranian army refused dismissal on Israelreported the state media, but the explosions exploded and the sirens sounded through northern Israel in the morning, and an Israeli military official said that two Iranian missiles had been intercepted.
Trump told journalists at the White House before leaving for a NATO summit which, in his opinion, the two parties had violated the emerging agreement. He had particularly strong words for Israel, a close ally, while suggesting that Iran may have drawn on the country by mistake.
But later, he said that the agreement had been saved.
“Israel will not attack Iran. All planes will turn around and go home, while making a friendly” airplane “to Iran. No one will be injured, the ceasefire is in force!” Trump declared in his social article of truth.
Indeed, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had held more difficult strikes against Iran after talking to Trump.
The conflict, now in its 12th day, started with Israel Targeting Iranian nuclear and military sites, saying that he could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons and that it feared that the Islamic Republic is close. Iran has long argued that its program is peaceful.
Many feared that war could widen after the United States Join the attacks By abandoning bunker bombs during the weekend and Israel has widened the types of targets it was hit.
But after Tehran launched a limited reprisal strike On an American military base in Qatar on Monday, Trump announced the ceasefire.
Israel accuses Iran of having violated the truce. Iran denies that
The agreement experienced a difficult start.
An Israeli military official who spoke under the guise of anonymity in accordance with military regulations said that Iran had launched two missiles in Israel in the tenuous ceasefire. The two were intercepted, said the manager.
Iranian state television reported that the army denied having fired missiles after the start of the ceasefire-while condemning Israel for its own strikes before dawn.
One of these attacks killed a high-level nuclear scientist, Mohammad Reza Sedigi Saber, at the residence of his stepfather in northern Iran, Iranian state television reported.
While Trump spoke to journalists in the White House before leaving to NATO summitHe expressed his disappointment towards both sides.
Iran “violated it, but Israel raped it too,” said Trump. “I am not satisfied with Israel.”
Trump’s frustration was palpable, using an explanive to hammer his point of view.
“We have essentially two countries that have been fighting for so long and so hard that they don’t know what they are doing,” he said.
Later, however, he announced that Israel had fell for his threat to attack Tehran and would return his jets.
Netanyahu’s office said Iranian Iranian radar site in response to the Iranian missile attack early on Tuesday, but Israeli forces retained something bigger.
After Trump’s conversation with Netanyahu, “Israel has abstained from additional attacks,” said Netanyahu’s office.
Breakthrough announced after the dissemination of hostilities
Netanyahu said that Israel had accepted a bilateral cease-fire with Iran, in coordination with Trump, after the country has achieved all its war objectives, in particular by removing the threat of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
We do not know what role Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, played in talks. He said earlier on social networks that he would not go.
Trump said on Tuesday that he was not looking for the regime change in Iran, two days after Float the idea itself In an article on social networks.
“I don’t want it,” Trump told journalists on Air Force One. “The change of diet takes chaos and, ideally, we don’t want to see many chaos.”
Before the cease-fire announcement, the Israeli army said Iran launched 20 missiles to Israel. Police said they had damaged at least three densely wrapped residential buildings in the city of Beersheba. The first speakers said they had recovered four bodies from a single building and were looking for more. At least 20 people were injured.
Outside, burned car shells littered the streets. The broken glass and the rubble covered the area. The police said that some people had been injured inside the reinforced safety rooms of their apartments, which are intended to resist rockets but not direct blows from ballistic missiles.
The attack followed a limited Iranian missile attack on a military base on Monday on Monday in Qatarride for earlier American bombardment of its nuclear sites. The United States was warned by Iran in advance and there was no victim.
Drons attacked military bases in Iraq overnight, including American housing troops, the Iraqi army and an American military official said on Tuesday.
A senior American military leader, who spoke under the guise of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on publicly, said that US forces have shot down Ain al-Assad drones in western Iraq desert and in a base next to Baghdad airport, while another crashed.
No victim has been reported and no group has claimed the responsibility of the attacks in Iraq. Some Iraqi militias supported by Iran had previously threatened to target American bases if the United States attacked Iran.
The conflict killed hundreds
In Israel, at least 28 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured during the war. Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 974 people and injured 3,458 others, according to human rights activists based in Washington.
The group, which provided detailed figures for Iranian disorders, said about people killed, it identified 387 civilians and 268 members of the security force.
The United States has evacuated some 250 American citizens and its immediate family members of Israel by government, military and charter flights that started during the weekend, said a state department.
There are around 700,000 American citizens, most of the double American-Israeli citizens, who were in Israel.
