Israel and Iran have agreed to stop the fire, ready to start at midnight, President Donald Trump announced on social networks on Monday night, indicating the end of almost two weeks of growing aerial assaults by the two countries.
The agreement described by Trump implies two periods of high fire of 12 hours, starting with Iran at 12 am edt. That would come “when Israel and Iran have finished and completed their final missions in progress,” Trump said in the Social publication of truth.
Israel would continue with a second high fire of 12 hours, Trump said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Mira in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, is shown in Tehran on March 20, 2025. President Donald Trump is shown in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025.
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After 24 hours, the war would be officially finished, according to Trump.
“Assuming that everything works as it should, which, that I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, for having resistance, courage and intelligence to finish, what should be called, ‘the 12 -day war’,” Trump wrote in the position.
For several hours, neither the Israeli nor Iranian officials publicly commented on Trump’s announcement. Later, In a publication on social networksIran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied that there was a high fire agreement. However, he said if Israel stopped the strikes at 4 in the morning of Tehran (8:30 pm EDT) “we have no intention of continuing our response later.”
Araghchi said that a final decision “about the cessation of our military operations” would be taken later and thanked the Iranian armed forces that said “he responded to any attack of the enemy until the last minute.”
The surprise announcement of Feese Fire de Trump occurred two days after the United States joined the Israel War, throwing strikes into three Iranian nuclear goals.
The war began on June 12 when Israel launched a series of strikes against Iran that included dozens of military objectives, including the country’s nuclear program. I defend what he called a “preventive” strike, Israel cited the intelligence that said he indicated that Iran had “significantly advanced” to obtain a nuclear weapon, says Iran denied.
Earlier on Monday, Iran triggered missiles aimed at the Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest American military base in the region, raising concerns about the possible escalation after the United States. However, an American official told ABC News that the United States intercepted the missiles with the help of Qatar and Trump, who described the “very weak” response, gave a decalatory tone on social networks. A source later described Iran’s movement as a “failed retaliation.”
