Following 12 days of intense airstrikes, including a “last-minute” barrage fired by Tehran, Iran and Israel are said to have reached a ceasefire.
Israelis have accepted the truce proposal announced by US President Donald Trump overnight, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement released on Tuesday morning. The ceasefire had already begun, according to an earlier Iranian state television report.
Trump had stated in a social media post that the ceasefire was in progress a short while before the Israeli statement.
The ceasefire has already been in effect. Do not break it, please! he stated.
The agreement gives rise to hopes for a de-escalation of the conflict, which has recently risen dramatically as Iran’s nuclear facilities were bombed and Iran attacked a US base in Qatar, despite Netanyahu’s threat that Israel would immediately retaliate violently against any ceasefire violation.
Israel has accepted President Trump’s request for a bilateral ceasefire, he said, “in light of the achievement of the objectives of the operation and in full coordination with him.”
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Early on Tuesday, there appeared to be a fragile peace, with reports of hostilities ending following six rounds of Iranian missile launches.
Abbas Araghchi, the country’s foreign minister, suggested Trump had set a time of 07.30 GMT deadline prior to the strikes.
He wrote on social media that “the powerful Armed Forces’ military operations to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last second.”
Emergency personnel and the Israeli military reported that there were several fatalities in the attacks. Israelis were given the option to leave missile shelters shortly after, and no further launches have been reported.
Tohid Asadi, a reporter from Tehran, claimed that Israeli strikes on the capital had stopped, calling the calm “promising about the prospect of the ceasefire.”
He noted that the situation is still fragile, and that Iran and Israel have both pledged to intervene if attacks against it resume.
“Now Gaza”
Israel’s opposition demanded that Netanyahu negotiate a truce to end the 20-month conflict with Hamas in Gaza following his announcement that his government had agreed to the ceasefire.
“And now Gaza,” It’s also time to finish it there. Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, wrote on social media that “bring back the hostages, end the war.”
However, Iran’s continued danger was echoed by hardliners who criticized the agreement.
The “regime in Iran is a regime that must be defeated,” wrote Likud party member Dan Illouz.
Iran will find new ways to fight Israel, he said, “if not defeated.”
Iran was attacked by Israel on June 13 because it was close to developing nuclear weapons. Prior to the US strikes on Saturday, Trump made a similar claim.
The Iranian nuclear facilities were requested by the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA on Monday to confirm the country’s enriched uranium’s location and state.
Before the US attacks on the Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities, there has been rumors that Iran may have moved its stock of the nuclear material.
Tehran’s nuclear industry is undergoing damage, according to Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, on Tuesday, according to a report from Reuters.
Source: Aljazeera
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