Trump claims ceasefire reached between Israel and Iran

US president congratulates Iran and Israel connected truce deal, but neither state has confirmed statement to extremity war.

United States President Donald Trump says that Iran and Israel person agreed to a “complete and total” ceasefire, which volition travel into effect successful the coming hours.

Trump’s announcement connected Monday came soon aft an Iranian rocket onslaught connected Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, which houses US troops.

“On the presumption that everything works arsenic it should, which it will, I would similar to congratulate some Countries, Israel and Iran, connected having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should beryllium called, ‘THE 12 DAY WAR,'” Trump said successful a societal media post.

“This is simply a War that could person gone connected for years, and destroyed the full Middle East, but it didn’t, and ne'er will! God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!”

Neither Israel nor Iran has confirmed the agreement.

Trump’s connection suggested that Iran would halt firing astatine Israel hours earlier the Israeli subject ends its operations.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi noted that determination has not been an authoritative confirmation of the woody much than an hr aft Trump’s announcement.

“Just a fewer minutes ago, we heard the sounds of explosions related to an interception and the activation of the aerial defence strategy present crossed the capital,” Asadi said.

“So the world connected the crushed is that we are witnessing the continuation of the Israeli strikes, and that’s paving the mode for further retaliatory reactions by the Iranian side.”

Middle East expert Omar Rahman told Al Jazeera that galore details are missing from Trump’s announcement, including whether negotiations would travel the purported ceasefire.

Rahman accused Trump of erstwhile “deception” connected behalf of Israel. The US president had re-asserted the US committedness to diplomacy hours earlier Israel launched its archetypal onslaught connected Iran.

Last week, Trump said helium would determine within 2 weeks whether to articulation Israel successful the war, lone to onslaught Iran 2 days later.

Rahman said a large Israeli onslaught successful the last hours, including the imaginable assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could stroke up the deal.

“If that’s the past operation, would that abruptly extremity the war? No, of course, not. So, I don’t cognize what’s successful the cards,” helium said.

Israel launched a monolithic onslaught against Iran successful the aboriginal hours of June 13, without nonstop provocation. Israeli officials claimed that the strikes, which killed hundreds of people, were “preemptive” and aimed astatine the country’s atomic and rocket programmes.

In the archetypal question of the attacks, Israel killed respective Iranian generals.

Iran said the attacks were unprovoked aggression successful usurpation of the United Nations Charter, and responded with hundreds of missiles that near wide demolition wrong Israel.

On Saturday, Trump authorised US strikes connected 3 Iranian atomic facilities.

Earlier connected Monday, Iran launched an unprecedented missile attack astatine Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar successful effect to the US strikes. Trump dismissed the retaliation arsenic “weak”, suggesting that the US would not respond.

Liqaa Maki, a student astatine Al Jazeera Media Institute, said the US whitethorn beryllium capable to withstand Iranian attacks connected its bases without responding if they bash not origin casualties.

“The US, aft the important onslaught connected Iran’s atomic facilities, needs to alteration the subject accomplishment into a governmental 1 enshrined by an agreement,” Maki told Al Jazeera Arabic aft the Iranian attack.

He noted that Iran inactive has ample quantities of highly enriched uranium arsenic good arsenic atomic know-how.

“So successful 2 to 3 years, Iran could resume its atomic enactment but without inspections. It could nutrient a weaponry without the satellite noticing,” Maki said.

The harm that the Iranian atomic programme has sustained remains unclear. Iran insists that it is not pursuing a atomic weapon, portion Israel is wide believed to person an undeclared atomic arsenal.