Trump Announces Ceasefire – But it’s Immediately Broken
The ceasefire between Iran and Israel announced by Donald Trump last night has already broken down after Israel accused Iran of a fresh launch of ballistic missiles and promised to “respond forcefully”. The Mail has more.
Israel is preparing to “respond forcefully” after it said Iran breached the ceasefire by launching ballistic missiles shortly after it was meant to come into effect.
Donald Trump warned the warring sides to “please not violate” the ceasefire last night, declaring that it marked a new chapter of “world peace”.
But hopes that the fighting would be halted were short lived, with Israel saying it had intercepted two ballistic missiles this morning.
In response, Defence Minister Israel Katz said he had instructed the IDF to “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran”.
Israel earlier said it had agreed to Trump’s proposal, declaring it had successfully removed Iran’s “dual immediate existential threat” of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles – helped by the US intervening with strikes on Tehran’s atomic facilities.
Iran also confirmed a ceasefire was in place this morning, just hours after it launched retaliatory attacks on America’s largest military base in the Middle East.
What were hoped to be the last Iranian missiles of the conflict rained down on Israel this morning, killing four people and injuring at least a dozen more when they hit a residential building in the country’s south.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed Tehran had halted its retaliation against Israel at 4am local time, but the IDF said sirens were sounding in Israel shortly before 6am local time due to the missile launch.
Araghchi said there is no ceasefire agreement with Israel, but that his country has “no intention to continue” military operations if Israel stops its attacks, which it is due to do later today according to Trump’s plan.
Trump announced the “bilateral ceasefire” on Monday – less than two weeks after Iran and Israel started exchanging missile strikes and two days after the US blasted the Islamic Republic’s nuclear labs with ‘bunker buster’ bombs.
The President said on his Truth Social platform that the “12 day war” will “end” in 24 hours, writing in another post that it was set to go into effect once in-progress missions were completed.
In a separate statement, he simply wrote: “CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT’S TIME FOR PEACE.” It now appears his plans have not been respected.
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Trump has suggested Iran fired “perhaps by mistake” and indicated he is “really unhappy” with Israel for using the 12 hours after the ceasefire agreement to unload on Iran and for now preparing further attacks on the country. From the Telegraph:
Trump was asked on the South Lawn whether he believed Iran still wanted peace. He said he did, but then said both sides had violated the ceasefire.
But he appeared to suggest that Iran may have fired a rocket by accident.
“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’d never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel,” he told reporters as he left for the Nato summit in the Hague.
“You know when I say, Okay, now you have 12 hours. You don’t go out in the first hour, just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them.
“I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that. 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.” …
After talking the press gathered to watch his White House departure, he took to Truth Social to post an all caps message.
“ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”
The President appears to be referring to the Israeli defence minister’s promise to launch “intense” strikes on the “heart of Tehran”.
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This is very disturbing news and certainly not something we would see in the News Round-up.
The real war on farmers.
It sounds like Trump might have persuaded Netanyahu to turn around his attacking aircraft.
Like a circus ringmaster, or a clown, Trump expects everyone to jump whenever he makes an announcement, whether it be for a cease-fire or for another attack somewhere. Vanessa Beeley, of UK Column fame, listed her thoughts on Trump’s latest cease-fire announcement (https://beeley.substack.com/p/trump-yelling-ceasefire-doesnt-mean): Ceasefires are never honoured by Israel or the US. See Lebanon, Palestine, violations of demarcation zone in Syria etc. Israel is a consumer more than a producer of weapons. Iran is a producer more than a consumer. Ceasefires are an opportunity for Israel to replenish stocks with US allied help. The war is far from over. Israel also needs to rest its pilots, service the fighter jets and attend to the failings in the multi-layer air defence systems. Iran needs more time than Israel to address the damage from the first stage of the war. This is not to diminish the damage done to Israel by Iran – this is also considerable, but Israel has an entire cohort of powerful countries that will leap to its assistance. Opposition politician, Avigdor Liebermann is already claiming ‘the ceasefire is shameful, neither Iran’s missile program nor its nuclear program was destroyed. This is an unconditional ceasefire. Iran will enrich uranium… Read more »
Sorry, Vanessa’s list was numbered but DS’s software somehow has a problem with numbered lists so I removed the numbering. Here are her remaining points: In the early hours of Tuesday morning, multiple attacks were reported across Iraq. Taji Area, north of Baghdad. Baghdad International Airport. Balad – Salah Al Din Governorate. Balad Air Base, Al Bakr Air Base. Nasiryah – Dhi Qar governorate, Imam Ali Air Base in southern Iraq. No group has yet claimed responsibility but the attacks suggest a high level of coordination on the ground. Enemy Watch on Telegram – America was losing this battle, so it announced a one-sided ceasefire but sent mixed messages. The U.S. plays aggression and imposes threats on opponents without justice. When it fears losing control, it announces ceasefires and flees just like in Gaza and Lebanon. Biden and Trump have only deepened the disgrace of the 249-year-old U.S. empire, weakening its hegemony. The challenge is not over. If the U.S. escalates border threats against Iran or takes other steps using its terror proxies, Iran and the resistance are ready and will remain cautious and serious to reply. Iran will hunt Mossad operatives, secure its borders, and prepare for the new… Read more »
“Like a circus ringmaster, or a clown, Trump expects everyone to jump whenever he makes an announcement…”
Neither ringmaster nor clown, the most powerful man in the World. Anyone with any sense better had jump.
And doing such a terrible thing – trying to bring peace to that tortured corner of the Planet… How dare he! ©️Greta Thickburger.
“Greta Thickburger”— love it! 🙂
Trump is a pathetic clown. He sits in the Oval Office wearing his bright red MAGA baseball cap as if to remind himself what he promised his voters.
Trying to bring peace? All he has to do is turn off the weapon deliveries to Ukraine and Israel: that would ensure immediate and lasting peace in both conflicts – and halt the genocide for which Trump now shares responsibility with Netanyahu.
Every day he gives out a new statement that contradicts what he said the day before. People in UK admire him because he stated there are only two sexes and because he closed US borders to illegal immigrants. Fine, good moves, but were they supposed to be difficult actions? They used to be the norm all over the world – and still are in sensible countries outside the West.
Did anyone think there would be peace between these two countries in a nanosecond, because Trump said so? Anyone else feel like you are permanently living in a dystopian unreality?