Tuesday, a tentative ceasefire fell apart when Israel said that Iran had fired missiles into Israeli airspace after the ceasefire was meant to start. Israel promised to fight back.
State media said that Iran’s military denied firing on Israel, but in the middle of the morning, explosions and sirens were heard all over northern Israel, and an Israeli military source said that two Iranian missiles were blocked.
Israel started the conflict, which is now in its 12th day, by attacking Iranian military and nuclear sites. It said it could not let Tehran make atomic bombs and that it thought the Islamic Republic was close.
A lot of people were afraid that the war would get bigger after the U.S. dropped bunker-buster bombs on the attacks over the weekend and Israel started hitting more types of targets.
But on Monday, Tehran launched a limited attack in response to a U.S. military base in Qatar. In response, U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to the fighting.
That’s all for now:
Trump says he doesn’t want regime change in Iran while the cease-fire lasts.
On Tuesday, President Trump said that he doesn’t want to change Iran’s government. The words come two days after he brought up the idea on social media, just hours after announcing a cease-fire.
“I don’t want it.” When asked if he wants the Islamic government to fall, Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he flew to a NATO summit in Europe, “I’d like to see everything calm down as soon as possible.” “Change of regime means chaos, and we don’t want that much chaos, so we’ll see how it goes.”
Johnson says that the US airstrikes did not break the Constitution.
On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters that he doesn’t think President Trump broke the Constitution when he ordered bombs on Iran without first getting permission from Congress.
“It was clear that President Trump had the power to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities under Article II of the Constitution as commander-in-chief.” At a news conference, he said, “It shouldn’t even be up for debate.”
“The people who wrote our Constitution never meant for the president to need Congress’s permission every time he used his constitutional power under Article II as commander-in-chief.”
Johnson then said that the War Powers Act of 1973, which says that the president has to tell Congress within 48 hours of sending troops to fight a war, is also not lawful.
“A lot of well-known constitutional experts say that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional,” he said. They think it goes against what the commander-in-chief is allowed to do under Article II. “I believe that is correct.”
Italia We are ready to help end the fight.
Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, said that his country is ready to help Israel and Iran work out their differences, but he will not go between them.
I talked to Lavrov on Tuesday in Moscow. He also said there was no proof that Iran was planning an attack on Israel before Israel struck.
The Kremlin doesn’t like it when people say it’s giving up on or ignoring Iran. On Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, denied that Moscow had not given real help.
Israeli Ambassador: At least 14 Iranian scientists were killed in strikes
In an interview with The Associated Press, Israel’s ambassador to France said that Israeli strikes had killed at least 14 scientists and nuclear engineers in Iran who were “personally involved” in making nuclear weapons.
As Ambassador Joshua Zarka put it, “The fact that the whole group disappeared is essentially setting the program back a number of years.”
He said on Monday, “I do think that people who will be asked to help Iran make nuclear weapons will think twice about it.”
He didn’t go ahead with the tougher strike. Having Talked to Trump
His office says that Israel hit an Iranian radar in reaction to the early Tuesday missile attack by Iran. But it says that the Israeli leader didn’t take harsher action because President Trump asked him not to.
“Israel did not launch any more attacks after President Trump spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Netanyahu’s office says.
Jerusalem to Follow the Cease-Fire: Trump: President Trump said that Israel will follow the cease-fire.
“Israel is not going to attack Iran.” After making a friendly “Plane Wave” to Iran, all the planes will turn around and go back home. “The Ceasefire is in effect, no one will be hurt!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Israel says Iran broke the peace agreement.
At 10:35 a.m. local time, the IDF said that radar had picked up a missile coming from Iran and alarms had gone off in northern Israel.
In a post on the social media site X, the Israeli Air Force said, “Right now, the Air Force is working to intercept and strike wherever necessary to eliminate the threat.”
Early that morning, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country recognised the cease-fire agreement with Iran but would “respond forcefully to any violation of the cease-fire.”
Trump says that both Iran and Israel broke the ceasefire.
Trump says that Israel and Iran broke the rules of the ceasefire by attacking after the deadline to stop fighting early Tuesday morning.
Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for the NATO meeting in The Hague that he was upset about the attacks that were still happening.
Trump said, “They broke it, but Israel broke it too.” “I’m not happy with Israel,” he said.
“These guys need to calm down…” A lot of what I saw yesterday I didn’t like. Israel opened fire right after we made the deal, which I didn’t like. “They didn’t have to shell out, and I didn’t like how strong the response was,” the president said.
“Israel fired a lot of rockets, and I’ve heard they just left because they thought one rocket that didn’t land anywhere hit them.”
Then, on Truth Social, he told Israel, “DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS.” It is a very big crime to do that. Get your pilots back home right away!”
Qatar condemns the attacks by Iran on a US air base
“Attacking Qatar is not okay… “The attack on the military base caught us off guard,” Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said about the attack on the Al Udeid Air Base on Monday.
He told reporters on Tuesday that the attack by Iran had hurt ties between his country and Tehran.
Al Thani said that Qatar will not take steps that will make things worse. Instead, he said, they will use legal actions and talks to deal with the attack. He also said that Qatar blocked all but one rocket, which landed in an empty area.
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