Trump accuses both Israel and Iran of violating US-brokered ceasefire
BRUSSELS — Both Iranians and Israelis reported bombing overnight and into the morning despite US President Donald Trump announcing he brokered a ceasefire deal to take effect on Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, the Israeli defense minister accused Iran of breaking a ceasefire deal and announced that the military would retaliate, shortly after Iran fired two missiles into Israel— apparently violating the fragile ceasefire that had taken hold just hours earlier.
Israel's government announced it had agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday morning, hours after trading a barrage of overnight strikes with Iran.
Tuesday morning began with widespread confusion over when the ceasefire deal, first announced by US President Donald Trump the night prior, would take effect.
Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, tweeted that "provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people...we have no intention to continue our response afterwards." adding that "The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later."
Iranian state media later announced that a ceasefire was indeed in effect, with Trump delcaring the ceasefire had "taken effect" shortly after 7am CET.
Strikes killed nine in Iran and five in Israel in the early hours of Tuesday, after the ceasefire agreement was announced but had not yet taken hold.
In Tehran, the strikes came shortly after 4 am local time — the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had indicated Iran would halt its attacks if Israel stopped its airstrikes.
Trump's declaration of a 'complete and total ceasefire' followed Iran's limited missile strike on a US military base in Qatar on Monday, a response to American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. — Euronews
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