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Trump says Iran and Israel have violated ‘ceasefire’ brokered by the US
The American president announced a phased ceasefire approach late Monday, but both sides were slow to publicly agree, before reports of additional strikes.
In this handout provided by the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) sit in the Situation Room as they monitor the mission that took out three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, at the White House on June 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Daniel Torok/The White House via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today reportedly accused Iran and Israel of both violating a ceasefire agreement, hours after he had unilaterally announced a deal to lay down arms on Monday.
Trump initially declared early Monday evening that the two Middle East powers had agreed to a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” a phased arrangement that he said would be beginning of the end to the current conflict.
Late Monday Iran’s foreign minister said on X that had been no ceasefire “agreement,” though he said Iran would stop attacking Israel if it did likewise. By this morning, reports indicated both sides had tentatively accepted a cessation to hostilities, until Israel said Iran had violated the ceasefire and said it would “respond forcefully” with “powerful strikes.”
The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces denied reports that Tehran had taken such action, according to the Tasnim News Agency, affiliated to the Iranian government.
At the White House this morning, Trump told reporters that Iran “violated” the ceasefire, “but Israel violated it too. … I’m not happy with Israel,” referring to an Israeli barrage on Iran that he said took place shortly after the deal was made. Trump also suggested a missile fired at Israel by Iran had been launched “perhaps by mistake.”
“ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
Prior to latest developments, Trump had described the ceasefire deal on Truth Social on Monday as a phased approach, starting after Israel and Iran completed “in progress” missions. He appeared to say that Iran would be the first to suspend operations, followed 12 hours later by Israel, which would start the clock on a 12-hour mutual ceasefire.
“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,” the president wrote. “During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL.”
To get to a deal, a senior White House official told Breaking Defense that Trump “communicated” directly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff “communicated with the Iranians, through both direct and indirect channels.” The official said the US was “grateful” to the Qataris for “their efforts to help broker peace.”
Israel agreed to the ceasefire “as long as they are not further attacked by Iran,” the official said, and maintained that Iran was on board, “as Senior Iranian Officials have been confirming.”
An hour before Trump’s post, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted on X that Iran “isn’t a country that surrenders.”
Trump’s post also came just hours after missiles from Iran were launched at US military facilities in Qatar, which the Pentagon said were mostly intercepted. There were no US casualties, according to a defense official.
That attempted strike appears so far to be Iran’s most aggressive retaliation for the surprise American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. That operation, which used B-2 stealth bombers flying from the continental US as well as fighter jets and submarine- and ship-launched missiles, was hailed as a resounding success by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters Sunday that a post-strike battlefield assessment was ongoing to see exactly how much damage the Iranian nuclear program sustained.
“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” he said, also noting that US aircraft did not appear to have been fired upon.
“Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface to air missile systems did not see us,” he said.
