'Complete and total' ceasefire agreed by Iran and Israel, says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump says that Israel and Iran have agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire, claiming that this will be the point at which the conflict between the two countries will be considered ended.
In a post on truth social, Mr Trump said the ceasefire would be "complete and total".
His comments came after Iran made good on its threat of retaliation against the United States, launching a missile attack on a US military base in Qatar on Monday (Jun 23).
Qatar said its defences had intercepted the incoming missiles which were targeted at the Al Udeid air base, the largest American military facility in the Middle East.
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AsiaOne
23 minutes ago
- AsiaOne
Trump says both Israel and Iran violate ceasefire: 'Do not drop those bombs', World News
WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV/ISTANBUL - US President Donald Trump accused both Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire on Tuesday hours after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel which had announced major new strikes on Tehran. "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after he left the White House for a trip to a Nato summit in The Hague. Before boarding, he told reporters he was "not happy" with either side for violating the truce, particularly with Israel. "I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen." Iran and Israel had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing," he said before turning away from cameras and heading to his helicopter. Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz had said he had ordered the military to mount new strikes on targets in Tehran in response to what he said were Iranian missiles fired in a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire. Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel's attacks had continued for an hour and a half beyond the time the ceasefire was meant to start. Despite the initial violations, in both countries, the wider Middle East and around the world there was 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," Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea where he had relocated with his family to escape strikes on the capital, told Reuters by telephone. 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." Trump had announced the ceasefire with a post on Truth Social: "THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!"
Straits Times
31 minutes ago
- Straits Times
Relieved foreigners leave a tense Israel after truce with Iran
Australian nationals wait to board a bus heading to Ben Gurion International airport for an evacuation flight to Australia, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura Australian nationals walk to board a bus heading to Ben Gurion International airport for an evacuation flight to Australia, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura Foreign nationals wait in line to board a bus to be evacuated from Israel, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura Australian nationals wait in line to board a bus heading to Ben Gurion International airport for an evacuation flight to Australia, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura Foreign nationals wait in line to board a bus to be evacuated from Israel, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura TEL AVIV - Foreign nationals leaving Israel on Tuesday voiced both relief for themselves and anxiety for family and friends staying behind as uncertainty hung over the country hours after a fragile ceasefire deal with Iran was announced. As part of evacuation plans organised by their countries' embassies, two large groups of Canadians and Australians gathered at a hotel in Tel Aviv, the former to board a bus to Jordan and the latter a flight to Dubai. "Now I know what being scared actually feels like. I don't think I've known fear like this before," said Tamar Banon, 32, a dual citizen of Canada and Israel who lives in Montreal and was visiting family when the air war broke out on June 13. A ceasefire was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump in the early hours of Tuesday, but the situation remained tense with Israel accusing Iran of violating it and threatening retaliation. Iran denied the violation. Banon said she remained worried for her family and for Israel as a whole. "I want them to have a good life without having to think about, you know, war and missiles and rockets." Israel started the war with the stated aim of destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. Its strikes killed hundreds of Iranian civilians as well as some senior military commanders and nuclear scientists, while damaging uranium enrichment sites. Iran retaliated with missiles that forced people in Israel to huddle in safe rooms and bomb shelters, often several times in a single night or day. The strikes killed 28 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. The United States entered the war at the weekend, unleashing 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs on fortified, underground Iranian nuclear installations. 'INCREDIBLY GUILTY' Australian Mark Avraham, 40, had flown in from Sydney to visit family and friends and take part in Pride celebrations. Despite experiencing 12 days of war, he plans to emigrate to Israel soon, in part due to what he described as rising antisemitism back home. "Two days before I left Australia, someone tried to run me over in their car while shouting antisemitic abuse," he said. "I feel incredibly guilty that I get to leave and they have to stay," he said, referring to friends and family in Israel. "But I know that they will be safe and they will look after each other, and I will be back in less than 12 months to be with them." Fellow Australian Taiba Ash, 35, from Melbourne, had come to Israel for what was supposed to be a fun-filled family holiday. She was on a night out with her husband when the first air raid siren rang out to warn people to take shelter. "We had no idea what to do," she said, recounting how they ran back to their rental apartment, woke up their children and stood under the stairs in terror. The family later found out there was a bomb shelter nearby, so for night after night they jumped out of bed to run there whenever sirens blared. "It's not safe for our kids to be here. It's not safe for their emotional wellbeing as well as their physical wellbeing. They are scared and nervous, and they feel our energy, even though we're trying to mask it," she said. Ash had no regrets about leaving. "I think what I'm most looking forward to going home to is a full night's sleep." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
CNA
an hour ago
- CNA
'Not happy': Trump accuses Israel, Iran of breaching truce
US President Donald Trump accused both Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire on Tuesday (Jun 24), hours after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel which had announced plans for major new strikes on Tehran. Speaking to reporters before leaving for the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump said Israel "unloaded" right after agreeing to the deal. Trump said he was not happy with Iran, "but really unhappy with Israel". "Israel, do not drop those bombs," he said. "If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now." He added that Israel had to calm down. "I gotta get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen." "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing." CEASEFIRE? Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz earlier said he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were missiles fired by Iran in a violation of the ceasefire announced hours earlier by Trump. The minister said in a statement he had ordered the military to "continue high-intensity operations targeting regime assets and terror infrastructure in Tehran" in light of "Iran's blatant violation of the ceasefire declared by the President of the US". Iran denied violating the ceasefire. The armed forces general staff denied that there had been any launch of missiles towards Israel in recent hours, Iran's Nour News reported. Both Israel and Iran had confirmed the ceasefire after Trump's announcement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country had achieved the goals it set in launching its Jun 13 surprise attack on Iran - to destroy its nuclear programme and missile capabilities. "Israel thanks President Trump and the US for their support in defence and their participation in eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat," Netanyahu had said. Iran's top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, said its military had forced Israel to "unilaterally accept defeat and accept a ceasefire". Iran's forces would "keep their hands on the trigger" to respond to "any act of aggression by the enemy", it said. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi had said that Iran would halt its retaliatory strikes provided that Israel stopped attacking as of 4am in Tehran. In the last reported strikes before the ceasefire, missiles killed four people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, the Israeli ambulance service said. Iranian officials said nine people, including a nuclear scientist, were killed in a strike on a residential building in northern Iran. GLOBAL RELIEF Despite the early threats to the ceasefire, the response across the region and wider world was largely one of relief at the prospect of an end to the biggest direct confrontation ever between the two foes. Global stock markets surged and oil prices tumbled after the ceasefire announcement, in the hope it heralded a resolution of the war two days after the US hit Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-busting bombs. "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 strikes on the capital. "I was so worried that Iran would end up like Syria or Iraq," said Maryam, 41, who stayed in Tehran because her family had no money to travel. "I want my two children to grow up in peace. I want them to live their childhood happily." Israel attacked on Jun 13, hitting Iranian nuclear sites and killing the top echelon of its military command in the worst threat faced by the Islamic Republic since war with Iraq in the 1980s. During the campaign, Israel said it was prepared to topple Iran's clerical rulers if necessary to achieve its aims and struck symbolic targets unrelated to the military, culminating on Monday with a strike on Tehran's Evin prison. Iranian officials say hundreds of people have been killed in airstrikes. Full information about the extent of the damage cannot be confirmed independently, with media tightly controlled. Iran's retaliatory missile strikes killed 28 people in Israel, the first time large numbers of Iranian missiles have penetrated its defences. Trump entered the war on Saturday with strikes on Iranian nuclear sites buried under a mountain using huge bombs that Israel does not possess. A senior White House official said Trump had brokered the ceasefire deal in a call with Netanyahu, and Israel had agreed so long as Iran did not launch further attacks. "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. Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani secured Tehran's agreement during a call with Iranian officials, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US special envoy Steve Witkoff were in direct and indirect contact with the Iranians, a White House official said. Iran had responded to the US participation in the airstrikes by firing missiles on Monday at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike, with Iran's retaliation apparently calibrated to allow de-escalation afterwards. Trump thanked Tehran for warning the US in advance to avoid injuries, and called the strike "a very weak response, which we expected, and have very effectively countered". The US had been negotiating with Iran to agree curbs to its nuclear programme, after Trump quit a previous agreement in 2018. Iran has always said its nuclear programme is peaceful.
