‘Fundamental breach': Many targets available for Israel to strike
Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs' Maurice Hirsch says Iran has brought itself to this situation after it breached the ceasefire agreement just hours ago.
'There are still many targets for Israel to strike – it's a shame really that the Iranian regime has brought itself to this situation,' Mr Hirsch told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
'This was a fundamental breach of the ceasefire.'
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‘You have 12 hours': Audio of phone call between Israel and Iranian general emerges
Don't miss out on the headlines from World. Followed categories will be added to My News. Audio of an ominous phone call between an Israeli intelligence officer and a senior Iranian general has shed new light on the covert activity happening behind the scenes of the conflict between the two countries. The Washington Post obtained and published the audio, from a call which took place mere hours after Israel launched its initial strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities on June 13. This morning, US President Donald Trump announced a tentative ceasefire between the nations, which have been bombing each other sporadically for more than a week. You can read more about that in our live coverage. Back to the phone call. The Post removed the voice of the general to avoid identifying him. The paper said the agent with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, had already been digitally altered when it obtained the recording. This is how the conversation unfolded. 'I'm calling from a country which, two hours ago, sent Salami, Bagheri and Shamkhani to hell,' the agent said, referring to senior Iranian targets killed by Israel, among them Hossein Salami, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. 'And now for you, now I'm suggesting you...' There was crosstalk at that point, and the Mossad agent had to ask whether the general could actually hear him. 'Listen carefully. I'm calling from a country that – I'll explain to you. Listen carefully,' he said, trying again. 'I'm calling from a country that, two hours ago, sent Bagheri, Salami, Shamkhani, one by one, to hell. 'I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child. Otherwise you are on our list right now. All of you, one by one, are on the list that I am looking at, and you are our next targets. 'We will hit you, your family, your children, everyone, with the dirt. I only called to tell you, while there's time. I will give you a reprieve. Like I said, 12 hours from this very minute that I spoke to you, you have time to escape. 'If not, you have no one to blame but yourself. We're closer to you than your own neck vein. Put this in your head. May God protect you.' The Israeli operative noted that his country had just killed Hossein Salami, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP The Iranian seemed confused in response, prompting the Israeli agent to reiterate his message. 'All of these savages, all of these people like Salami, we sent them to that same place they should have gone to much earlier,' said the Israeli agent. 'Do you want to be one of them? Do you want to be the next one on the list? Do you also want to destroy your wife and child?' There was a long pause. 'So what should I do now?' the general asked. 'I'm telling you right now. I gave you a proposal,' said the Israeli. 'Say it,' said the Iranian. 'You have 12 hours to make a video saying, 'We have walked away from this government, and we are unwilling to sacrifice our lives for people who destroyed our country for 46 years. They only killed, stole took. They only cut the children of this country into pieces,'' said the Mossad agent. 'Well, how should I send it to you?' the general asked. 'I will send you a Telegram ID. Send it,' said the agent. 'Look, we have everything on you. It seems you haven't understood. It's clear you don't even understand where you are right now. 'I'm telling you we hit all your leaders. We turned them into powder. Now you're sitting here, and you think you're talking to me. I'm calling to give you a proposal to save your wife and child, you wretch. Are you confused?' The call ended with more logistics about how, exactly, the Iranian general was supposed to send the video to Israel. You can watch the conversation, in part, in the video player at the top of the page Two of the main players here: Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump. Picture: Atta Kenare and Charly Triballeau/AFP Iran and Israel have been trading fire ever since those initial Israeli air strikes on June 13. The United States then joined in, bombing three Iranian nuclear sites. Today, hopes of a de-escalation were bolstered when Iran responded to the American attack with a token strike on a US base in Qatar, which resulted in no casualties. That was followed by Mr Trump's announcement of a ceasefire. 'CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!' Mr Trump wrote on social media. 'It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for twelve hours, at which point the WAR will be considered, ENDED! 'Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. 'During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL. 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'. 'This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't, and never will! God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD! 'DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.' It was later reported that Iran had agreed to the ceasefire proposal via Qatar, which as acted as an intermediary between the United States, Israel and both Iran and Hamas. Originally published as 'You have 12 hours': Audio of threatening phone call between Israel and Iranian general emerges
7NEWS
an hour ago
- 7NEWS
Trump lashes Israel again amid fragile ceasefire with Iran
Israel has bombed a target near Tehran despite a furious rebuke from US President Donald Trump for launching air strikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran. Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced but directed particularly stinging criticism at Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to 'calm down now'. Trump drops F-bomb in tirade against Israel and Iran. He said Israel called off further attacks at his command to preserve the deal to end a 12-day air war with Iran, the biggest ever military confrontation between the Middle East arch-foes that had raised fears of global repercussions. ".@POTUS: 'These guys gotta calm down. It's ridiculous. I didn't like plenty of things that I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal ... and I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong.' Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 24, 2025 " Following those remarks, however, two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud blasts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel had bombed a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iran firing missiles three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to begin. It said Israel had decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Netanyahu and Trump but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour-and-a-half beyond the time the truce was meant to start. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Iran would not violate the ceasefire unless Israel did so, and that it was prepared to return to the negotiating table, according to state-run Nournews. Trump, en route to a NATO summit in Europe, had admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary early morning outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran's underground nuclear sites. '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 said in a post on Truth Social. That followed a post in which he had said: 'Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!' Before departing the White House, Trump told reporters he was unhappy with both sides for breaching the ceasefire but particularly frustrated with Israel, which he said had 'unloaded' shortly after agreeing to the deal. 'I've got to get Israel to calm down now,' Trump said. Iran and Israel had been fighting 'so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing'. A reporter for Axios said Netanyahu had told Trump that Israel would scale back the bombing mission rather than cancel it. Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted, 12 days after Israel launched it with a surprise attack, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets. 'We're happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn't matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place,' said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape the air strikes. Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, said: 'Regrettably, it's a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday. But as they say: 'better late than never', and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning.' Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One heading to the NATO summit, Trump said he did not want to see Iran's ruling system toppled. 'I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos,' he said. The ceasefire came the morning after Iran responded to the US participation in the air strikes by firing a volley of missiles at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike as the Iranian retaliation appeared to have been calibrated carefully to allow de-escalation. Trump thanked Iran for warning the United States in advance to avoid injuries.
The Advertiser
an hour ago
- The Advertiser
Trump rebukes Israel, Iran says it will stick to truce
Israel has bombed a target near Tehran despite a furious rebuke from US President Donald Trump for launching air strikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran. Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced but directed particularly stinging criticism at Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to "calm down now". He said Israel called off further attacks at his command to preserve the deal to end a 12-day air war with Iran, the biggest ever military confrontation between the Middle East arch-foes that had raised fears of global repercussions. Following those remarks, however, two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud blasts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel had bombed a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to begin. It said Israel had decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Netanyahu and Trump but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour-and-a-half beyond the time the truce was meant to start. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Iran would not violate the ceasefire unless Israel did so, and that it was prepared to return to the negotiating table, according to state-run Nournews. Trump, en route to a NATO summit in Europe, had admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary early morning outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran's underground nuclear sites. "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 said in a post on Truth Social. That followed a post in which he had said: "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Before departing the White House, Trump told reporters he was unhappy with both sides for breaching the ceasefire but particularly frustrated with Israel, which he said had "unloaded" shortly after agreeing to the deal. "I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said. Iran and Israel had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing". A reporter for Axios said Netanyahu had told Trump that Israel would scale back the bombing mission rather than cancel it. Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted, 12 days after Israel launched it with a surprise attack, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets. "We're happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn't matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place," said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape the air strikes. Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, said: "Regrettably, it's a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday. But as they say: 'better late than never', and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One heading to the NATO summit, Trump said he did not want to see Iran's ruling system toppled. "I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos," he said. The ceasefire came the morning after Iran responded to the US participation in the air strikes by firing a volley of missiles at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike as the Iranian retaliation appeared to have been calibrated carefully to allow de-escalation. Trump thanked Iran for warning the United States in advance to avoid injuries. Israel has bombed a target near Tehran despite a furious rebuke from US President Donald Trump for launching air strikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran. Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced but directed particularly stinging criticism at Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to "calm down now". He said Israel called off further attacks at his command to preserve the deal to end a 12-day air war with Iran, the biggest ever military confrontation between the Middle East arch-foes that had raised fears of global repercussions. Following those remarks, however, two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud blasts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel had bombed a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to begin. It said Israel had decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Netanyahu and Trump but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour-and-a-half beyond the time the truce was meant to start. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Iran would not violate the ceasefire unless Israel did so, and that it was prepared to return to the negotiating table, according to state-run Nournews. Trump, en route to a NATO summit in Europe, had admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary early morning outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran's underground nuclear sites. "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 said in a post on Truth Social. That followed a post in which he had said: "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Before departing the White House, Trump told reporters he was unhappy with both sides for breaching the ceasefire but particularly frustrated with Israel, which he said had "unloaded" shortly after agreeing to the deal. "I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said. Iran and Israel had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing". A reporter for Axios said Netanyahu had told Trump that Israel would scale back the bombing mission rather than cancel it. Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted, 12 days after Israel launched it with a surprise attack, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets. "We're happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn't matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place," said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape the air strikes. Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, said: "Regrettably, it's a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday. But as they say: 'better late than never', and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One heading to the NATO summit, Trump said he did not want to see Iran's ruling system toppled. "I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos," he said. The ceasefire came the morning after Iran responded to the US participation in the air strikes by firing a volley of missiles at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike as the Iranian retaliation appeared to have been calibrated carefully to allow de-escalation. Trump thanked Iran for warning the United States in advance to avoid injuries. Israel has bombed a target near Tehran despite a furious rebuke from US President Donald Trump for launching air strikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran. Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced but directed particularly stinging criticism at Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to "calm down now". He said Israel called off further attacks at his command to preserve the deal to end a 12-day air war with Iran, the biggest ever military confrontation between the Middle East arch-foes that had raised fears of global repercussions. Following those remarks, however, two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud blasts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel had bombed a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to begin. It said Israel had decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Netanyahu and Trump but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour-and-a-half beyond the time the truce was meant to start. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Iran would not violate the ceasefire unless Israel did so, and that it was prepared to return to the negotiating table, according to state-run Nournews. Trump, en route to a NATO summit in Europe, had admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary early morning outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran's underground nuclear sites. "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 said in a post on Truth Social. That followed a post in which he had said: "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Before departing the White House, Trump told reporters he was unhappy with both sides for breaching the ceasefire but particularly frustrated with Israel, which he said had "unloaded" shortly after agreeing to the deal. "I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said. Iran and Israel had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing". A reporter for Axios said Netanyahu had told Trump that Israel would scale back the bombing mission rather than cancel it. Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted, 12 days after Israel launched it with a surprise attack, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets. "We're happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn't matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place," said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape the air strikes. Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, said: "Regrettably, it's a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday. But as they say: 'better late than never', and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One heading to the NATO summit, Trump said he did not want to see Iran's ruling system toppled. "I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos," he said. The ceasefire came the morning after Iran responded to the US participation in the air strikes by firing a volley of missiles at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike as the Iranian retaliation appeared to have been calibrated carefully to allow de-escalation. Trump thanked Iran for warning the United States in advance to avoid injuries. Israel has bombed a target near Tehran despite a furious rebuke from US President Donald Trump for launching air strikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran. Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced but directed particularly stinging criticism at Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to "calm down now". He said Israel called off further attacks at his command to preserve the deal to end a 12-day air war with Iran, the biggest ever military confrontation between the Middle East arch-foes that had raised fears of global repercussions. Following those remarks, however, two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud blasts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel had bombed a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to begin. It said Israel had decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Netanyahu and Trump but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour-and-a-half beyond the time the truce was meant to start. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Iran would not violate the ceasefire unless Israel did so, and that it was prepared to return to the negotiating table, according to state-run Nournews. Trump, en route to a NATO summit in Europe, had admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary early morning outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran's underground nuclear sites. "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 said in a post on Truth Social. That followed a post in which he had said: "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Before departing the White House, Trump told reporters he was unhappy with both sides for breaching the ceasefire but particularly frustrated with Israel, which he said had "unloaded" shortly after agreeing to the deal. "I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said. Iran and Israel had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing". A reporter for Axios said Netanyahu had told Trump that Israel would scale back the bombing mission rather than cancel it. Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted, 12 days after Israel launched it with a surprise attack, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets. "We're happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn't matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place," said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape the air strikes. Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, said: "Regrettably, it's a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday. But as they say: 'better late than never', and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One heading to the NATO summit, Trump said he did not want to see Iran's ruling system toppled. "I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos," he said. The ceasefire came the morning after Iran responded to the US participation in the air strikes by firing a volley of missiles at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike as the Iranian retaliation appeared to have been calibrated carefully to allow de-escalation. Trump thanked Iran for warning the United States in advance to avoid injuries.
