‘Ridiculous': Donald Trump rages over earlier Israel-Iran ceasefire breach
US President Donald Trump has accused Iran and Israel of breaching a ceasefire he helped broker.
After nearly two weeks of fighting, the United States President announced a ceasefire on his social media platform Truth Social, but both Israel and Iran continued to strike the other country, invoking the ire of President Trump.
'These guys got to calm down. It's ridiculous,' President Trump said.
'We basically have two countries that have been fighting for so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing. Do you understand that?'
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