Alert – Trump issues chilling warning of ‘super’ Iranian sleeper cells after F-bomb rant and angry call to Netanyahu: Live updates

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Air Force One shortly after the presidential plane took off for Europe.

Trump revealed details of the conversation in a gaggle with reporters on the plane, saying he told Netanyahu to bring back military aircraft that the president claimed were on the verge of attacking Iran.

‘I said you gotta turn back the planes,’ Trump said.

‘There was going to be a retaliation this morning by Israel,’ the president revealed, adding he told Netanyahu to stand down.

‘And they did, which I respect very greatly, so nobody was killed,’ Trump noted.

Trump said there would be no consequences for violating the ceasefire because the planes turned around. The president is in route to The Hague for a NATO meeting.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The State Department is monitoring changes in the Middle East over the last week that could impact the Israel war with Hamas.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s press secretary Tammy Bruce said on Tuesday thay ‘everything has changed’ in the Middle East.

‘In the last few days in the Middle East, everything has changed,’ Bruce said. ‘How that manifests in the Gaza Strip is yet to be determined.’

She said there might be more updates on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas terrorists operating out of Gaza at Thursday’s briefing.

After the US carried out strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to expect further American offensive military action, a senior White House official said.

Trump told Netanyahu that it was time to stop the war and return to diplomatic negotiations following the bombardment on three key Iranian nuclear sites.

Trump’s position is that the US had removed any imminent threat posed by Iran, according to the official, who spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to comment publicly about the sensitive diplomatic talks.

The source claimed Netanyahu understood Trump’s stance that the US had no desire to be further involved with the situation militarily.

Israel will ‘respect the ceasefire’ with Iran ‘as long as the other side does’, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has claimed.

He spoke with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth this afternoon and thanked him for President Trump’s ‘bold decision to act with Israel against the Iranian nuclear threat’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today held off on a tougher strike against Iran after having spoken to Trump.

Israel has ended its state if emergency amid the ceasefire with Iran.

All restrictions on schools, public gatherings and workplaces have now been lifted, the country announced.

In some communities along the border with Gaza, gatherings remain limited to 2,000 people. This restriction was in place before the war with Iran broke out.

Five Red Cross workers were killed in Israeli strikes on Iran, the agency has claimed.

The Red Cross, branding the fatalities as ‘devastating’, issued an urgent call for protections for humanitarian aid workers.

In a statement shared on Facebook, the Red Cross said:

Another rescuer from the Iranian Red Crescent has been killed while saving lives. This brings to five the number of Iranian Red Crescent staff who have tragically lost their lives in the line of duty since the escalation of hostilities. We reiterate urgently our call: Humanitarian workers must be protected.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted against pursuing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green, who for months has vowed to impeach the president, filed articles of impeachment against the president Tuesday morning.

Since screaming and waving his cane to interrupt Trump’s joint speech to Congress in March, Green has worked to get the Republican officially impeached for a third time.

The Democrat announced in the morning that he filed a privileged resolution, meaning it had to be voted on quickly.

The articles accused Trump of abusing his presidential powers and devolving the US into an ‘authoritarian government, usurping congressional power to declare war.’

However, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Democrat’s whirlwind effort was an abysmal failure.

President Donald Trump says China can continue to purchase oil from Iran after the US bombed Tehrfn’s nuclear facilities.

He also hoped that China would also buy ‘plenty’ of oil from the United States.

Trump, in a post on his platform Truth Social, said today:

China can now continue to purchase Oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the US, also.

Trump in January said he was re-imposing maximum pressure on Iran over its nuclear program and funding of militant groups across the Middle East.

He imposed waves of Iran-related sanctions including on several of China’s so-called independent ‘teapot’ refineries and port terminal operators for purchases of Iranian oil.

Actual lifting of the sanctions on Iranian oil will take actions by the Treasury and State Departments and Congress. But the Trump administration could choose to not enforce existing sanctions, which could increase the flow of oil to global markets.

China, the world’s biggest buyer of Iranian oil, has long opposed what it has called Washington’s ‘abuse of illegal unilateral sanctions.’

President Donald Trump arrived earlier today in the Netherlands for the NATO Summit.

As he prepared to step off Air Force One, the president whipped out a very patriotic hat.

Israel was ‘stunned’ and ’embarrassed’ by President Trump’s response to Israel and Iran’s tit-for-tat attacks this morning.

Trump scolded both sides for early violations of the ceasefire he had brokered, but directed especially stinging criticism at Washington’s close ally Israel over the scale of its strikes, telling it to ‘calm down now’.

A source close to Israeli leadership told NBC News: ‘They were surprised that he went and did all that in such a public way and basically switched on them very quickly.

‘They just ended this war on a high and then this is kind of a little … nick.’

Pictured: Emergency responders work at a building where four people were killed by an Iranian missile strike on June 24, 2025 in Beersheba, Israel

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged Iran and Israel to respect the ceasefire that went into effect Tuesday after 12 days of war.

‘The fighting must stop. The people of the two countries have already suffered too much,’ Guterres said on X.

He added that he hoped the truce could be replicated in other conflicts in the region, such as the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Rep. Thomas Massie pulled his House resolution to check President Donald Trump’s war powers after the president announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

Massie’s resolution had sparked support from Congressional Democrats looking to score political points against the president.

The stunning U-turn has drawn praise from Trump’s deputy chief of staff James Blair.

Iranian army sniper Ribvar Karimi and two suspected terrorists are among illegal migrants living in the US who have been arrested by ICE since Sunday.

Karimi reportedly served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021.

His American wife insists he loves America and is a proud immigrant.

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed concerns that the Israel-Iran war has increased the risk that Iranian leaders will continue work in secret to enrich uranium that can be used for nuclear weapons.

‘This risk has, it’s true, increased with what has happened recently,’ Macron said.

He was asked if Iranian uranium-enrichment work could continue in secret after nearly two weeks of Israeli airstrikes and the dropping of giant bunker-busting bombs by US B-2 stealth bombers on Iranian nuclear plants.

He repeated France’s desire for negotiations to address concerns about Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

‘Our shared objective is that Iran doesn’t equip itself with a nuclear weapon,’ he said.

Israel’s airport authority said Tuesday that all flights in the country will resume after the country’s military lifted restrictions linked to the war with Iran as a fragile ceasefire took hold.

‘Following the Home Front Command’s decision in the last hour regarding the lifting of restrictions, the airports authority announces the return to full activity for the Ben Gurion and Haifa airports,’ the authority said in a statement.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with his Turkmenistan counterpart on Tuesday.

The two discussed the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran and Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov reaffirmed commitments to U.S. citizens’ safety.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce released a readout of the call:

During the call, Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Meredov reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents are able to safely leave Iran through the Turkmenistan border. The United States expressed gratitude for Turkmenistan’s cooperation and looks forward to further partnership with Turkmenistan, including expanding economic and commercial ties.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has announced the ‘end of the 12-day war’ imposed by Israel, in a message to the nation on state television.

‘Today, after the heroic resistance of our great nation, whose determination makes history, we are witnessing the establishment of a truce and the ending of this 12-day war imposed by the adventurism and provocation’ of Israel, Pezeshkian said.

The fragile ceasefire in the Iran-Israel war appears to be holding after Trump, who had first declared the ceasefire, angrily berated both sides for violating it.

Iran announced it would respect the truce if Israel did, while Israel said it had refrained from further strikes.

Israel, in announcing it had agreed to Trump’s plan, said it had achieved all its military objectives.

Iran initially stopped short of officially accepting the proposal, but Pezeshkian later said that if ‘the Zionist regime does not violate the ceasefire, Iran will not violate it either’.

Iran will not return to the negotiating table if the US continues its ‘aggression’, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has claimed.

Iranian officials have received messages from the US, he told Al-Araby al-Jadeed.

He added that Iran ‘provided the necessary responses through intermediaries and indirect channels’.

Several Middle Eastern countries have ‘firmly condemned’ Israel’s attack on Iran since it began 12 days ago, but haved remained largely quiet on the United States’ involvment in the conflict.

Eurasia Group Managing Director Firas Maksad told MSNBC these countries are very careful to cross a volatile President Trump’.

He added they want to ‘make sure that they maintain the best relationship’ with Trump, who he pointed out visited the region only a couple of weeks ago.

Maksad also said they have ‘an interest very much in playing the role of facilitator, mediator’.

‘These are status quo powers,’ he added, noting how many Middle Eastern leaders are also thinking about their own ‘national agendas’.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement will likely be a persistent problem for the United States in the future, despite America and terrorist group having reached an agreement last month that ended a US air campaign.

‘The Houthis are likely to be a persistent problem… that we’ll be dealing with in the future a few times again,’ Air Force Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, director for operations of the Joint Staff, told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Grynkewich has been nominated to lead the US military’s European Command.

Pictured: A Houthi soldier stands guard during a protest against the Israeli airstrikes on Iran, in Sana'a, Yemen on June 20, 2025

Pictured: Houthi supporters burn US and Israeli flags during a protest against the Israeli airstrikes on Iran, in Sana'a, Yemen on June 20, 2025

The Israel Defense Forces will continue its campaign against Iran, despite the two countries having agreed to a ceasefire.

‘We must keep our feet on the ground. Many challenges lie ahead. We must remain focused; there is no time to rest on our laurels,’ IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said in a statement to local media.

‘We have concluded a significant chapter, but the campaign against Iran is not over. We are entering a new phase, one that builds upon the achievements of the current operation.’

Zamir said the IDF has ‘set Iran’s nuclear project back by years’, as well as its missile program.

‘Now, the focus returns to Gaza, to bringing the hostages home and toppling Hamas rule,’ he added.

The UN is seeking access to inspect Iran’s nuclear sites in the wake of the American airstrike as President Donald Trump insisted Tehran will not make a nuclear weapon.

‘Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon, by the way. I think it’s the last thing on their mind right now,’ the president told reporters on Air Force One.

Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wrote to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to request access for international inspectors to Iran’s nuclear facilities and its enriched uranium stockpile.

There are reports that Iran moved its 880 pounds of enriched uranium ahead of the American airstrike on Saturday night.

‘They’re not going to have enrichment, and they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,’ Trump insisted of Iran.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the Trump administration over the decision to postpone today’s classified briefing on the military strike in Iran.

‘Senators deserve full transparency. There is a legal obligation for the administration to inform Congress about precisely what is happening,’ Schumer said in a statement.

‘What are they afraid of? Why won’t they engage Congress in the critical details?’

The Senate briefing has been rescheduled for Thursday so Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth and Secretary of State Marco Rucio can attend, but Schumer said their appearance should be in addition to Tuesday’s briefing.

‘I think Hegseth is probably just going to give us talking points,’ Schumer said, adding that he preferred to hear from Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Dan Caine, who was scheduled to brief lawmakers.

‘He probably knows more about the military operations both now and in the future than anybody,’ he added. ‘There were good people from the State Department who knew all of the diplomatic stuff. We want to hear them.’

Both the Senate and House briefings were canceled today. Although the Senate brieng has been rescheduled, it is unclear when the House will be briefed.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested 15 illegal Iranian migrants since Sunday.

One of the migrants admitted to having ties to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

An FBI insider told Fox News agents are ‘closely watching’ for any ‘sleeper agents’ in wake of the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities.

‘DHS has identified and arrested known or suspected terrorists and violent extremists that illegally entered this country, came in through Biden’s fraudulent parole programs or otherwise,’ ICE tweeted earleir today.

‘We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out—and we are. We don’t wait until a military operation to execute; we proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland.’

The largest union of maritime workers in North America has thanked President Donald Trump for his ‘courageous decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities’.

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) sent a letter to Trump yesterday saying the its 85,000 members ‘stand 100 percent behind you’ and ‘support this military action against an enemy of the US’.

Trump shared the letter on his platform Truth Social today.

The classified briefings on Trump’s decision to authorize strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have been postponed, sources told CNN.

The all-Senate hearing in which lawmakers would hear directly from intelligence leaders has been moved to Thursday.

Sources also claim the all-House briefing has been postponed – though there was no clear timeline for its rescheduling.

The briefings come as Congress prepares to debate whether to invoke the War Powers clause restraining Trump.

Some Democrats filed to impeach him for striking Iran without congressional approval. Homeland Security, meanwhile, warned of a heightened risk of a domestic attack.

Trump applauded his efforts to broker a peace deal between Iran and Israel in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

He suggested the ceasefire is a result of the US destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities in the historic missile strike Saturday night.

A view of the damage at Iranian state broadcaster IRIB

The Iranian government said it had begun efforts to rebuild residential areas and public infrastructure damaged in Israeli strikes over 12 days.

Speaking to state television, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said:

We witnessed attacks on residential areas, as well as on scientific centres, research institutes, healthcare facilities and civilians… therefore we are facing a major task ahead in terms of reconstruction.

Authorities have also begun to assess the extent of the damage.

President Donald Trump was formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after he brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) formally wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee on Tuesday highlighting Trump’s ‘extraordinary and historic role’ in ending the ‘armed conflict between Israel and Iran’.

Carter added that Trump played a integral role in ‘preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet’.

Carter’s nomination comes just hours after both Iran and Israel violated the peace agreement.

It also follows Ukranian lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko withdrawing the nomination he submitted on Trump’s behalf last November.

Merezhko, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign committee, originally nominated Trump for his ‘considerable contributions to world peace’.

But on Tuesday he told Newsweek that he withdrew his nomination because he ‘lost any sort of faith and belief’ that Trump could secure a ceasefire between Kyiv and Russia.

The Trump Administration discussed ‘potential interventions’ for major oil supply disruption in the Middle East before the president authorized strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

President Trump and his advisers started ‘weighing risks’ of oil supply chain strains and higher prices weeks before Saturday’s attack, sources close to the matter told Bloomberg.

One proposed solution, according to the insider, involved releasing crude from America’s emergency stockpile.

The president could also invoke special powers outlined in the Defense Production Act of 1950 to compel American companies to supply more oil.

The White House has not disclosed its plans but Trump celebrated falling oil prices this morning, telling reporters on Air Force One: ‘I love it. It dropped almost $10 yesterday. We have a lot less conflict, so it came down.’

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said a European accused of spying on ‘sensitive and military’ sites was arrested in the south of the country.

The arrest came as a fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel took hold after 12 days of fighting, and followed multiple local media reports in recent days of individuals detained on accusations of spying for Israel.

‘A European was arrested by security forces from the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps… in Hormozgan province’, the Guards’ Sepahnews website said, noting ‘the individual… entered Iran as a tourist’.

‘He was gathering intelligence on sensitive and military sites,’ it added, without elaborating on who the suspect was accused of working for.

Iran has vowed swift trials for people arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.

Authorities have also announced the executions of several people convicted of working with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Trading closes at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday

US stocks rose today as Trump’s ceasefire announcement helped calm investor fears of a broader conflict in the oil-rich Middle East.

Financial and technology stocks led the rally among S&P 500 sub-sectors, while energy stocks declined the most, tracking a nearly 5% drop in crude prices after the ceasefire announcement eased the threat of Gulf oil supply disruptions.

Defense stocks Lockheed Martin and RTX Corp fell 1.7% and 2.5%.

Investors also assessed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments on monetary policy, where he reiterated the central bank’s wait-and-watch approach to interest rates as tariff-driven price pressures become evident.

Trump’s call for a truce marked a sharp turnaround after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend and Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar.

Despite reports of both Israel and Iran violating the ceasefire through the day, investors have taken heart from the de-escalation in hostilities.

At 10:20 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 288.65 points, or 0.68%, to 42,870.43, the S&P 500 gained 45.35 points, or 0.75%, to 6,070.52 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 206.04 points, or 1.05%, to 19,837.01.

People in Tel Aviv flocked to the beach on the first day of a ceasefire agreed between Israel and Iran.

Many were seen sunbathing and playing volleyball in the city earlier today.

A second flight evacuating Britons from Israel has left Tel Aviv.

The Foreign Office confirmed its departure and said further flights would be considered depending on demand.

The first RAF chartered flight departed Ben Gurion Airport with 63 British nationals and their family members on Monday.

Passengers landed at Birmingham Airport early this morning.

British nationals are urged to continue registering their presence in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Tehran was far from its usual hustle and bustle today but life is starting to return to the capital after nearly two weeks of war.

In Tajrish bazaar in north Tehran, everyone had their own opinion on whether the end to the fighting announced by US President Donald Trump would last.

‘I don’t think it is sustainable,’ said Ahmad Barqi, a 75-year-old vendor of electronics.

‘We would like a ceasefire… but they don’t implement it, they don’t keep to their promises,’ he said, referring to the Israelis.

‘It seems Israel is violating the truce,’ said Alireza Jahangiri, another merchant, who heard state media reporting that Israel had carried out three rounds of strikes after the ceasefire was announced.

Nevertheless, no strikes had been recorded in Tehran since the early morning, after a night in which residents were woken by explosions more numerous than previously in the war.

‘Fortunately, we have survived,’ said one relieved Tehrani taking advantage of the truce and the good weather to walk in the park, while nearby cafes were welcoming young people happy to be able to meet up again.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have arrested 11 Iranian nationals in the country illegally, the US Department of Homeland Security has said.

Authorities also arrested a US citizen accused of threatening law enforcement and harboring one of the Iranian nationals, according to the department, which oversees ICE.

French President Emmanuel Macron has also praised Trump for brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran ahead of the NATO summit.

Earlier Macron said he would speak to Trump about the need to continue talks with Iran on its nuclear capabilities.

Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are spearheading European efforts to revive negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.

Donald Trump has posted a fawning message he received privately from NATO chief Mark Rutte praising him for his ‘decisive’ and ‘truly extraordinary’ nuclear strikes in Iran.

Trump posted the screenshot message on his Truth Social page as he headed to the Netherlands for a NATO summit.

‘Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary, and something no one else dared to do. It makes us all safer,’ the message read.

NATO officials confirmed the message was sent by Rutte to Trump earlier on Tuesday, as Trump headed to The Hague for a summit of NATO leaders.

Read the full message below:

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said the Iranians will respect a ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump provided Israel also upholds its terms.

Speaking to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Pezeshkian said:

If the Zionist regime does not violate the ceasefire, Iran will not violate it either.

The ceasefire appeared to be in tatters this morning when Israel accused Iran of firing ballistic missiles after it had come into effect.

But threats to launch ‘intense strikes’ in Tehran appeared to have been halted after Trump spoke to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will get classified intelligence briefings on the Israel-Iran war this afternoon.

The House of Representatives will receive a briefing at 3:00 pm ET.

The Senate will convene for their meeting at 4:00 pm ET.

Some lawmakers, like Speaker Mike Johnson, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, Senate Majority Leader Thune and others, have already been updated on the war.

The briefings will clue in rank-and-file members and some Democratic leaders who have yet to be updated.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Donald Trump revealed Vladimir Putin called him and offered to help with Iran.

And Trump had a funny comeback to the Russian president.

‘Vladimir called me up. He said, Can I help you with Iran? I said, No, I don’t need help with Iran. I need help with you,’ Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

Trump has been frustrated with Putin for refusing to negotiate a ceasefire on Ukraine.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

The nation’s capital is set to see another display of military strength as the North American Aerospace Defense Command flies F-16 fighter jets and other aircraft as part of a training exercise.

NORAD warned the flights would be at 2,500 feet and visible from the ground June 25th in the region around Washington, DC. Dubbed Falcon Virgo, the operation will prep for scenarios such as violations of the city’s restricted air space, ‘hijackings, and responses to unknown aircraft.’ The exercises are ‘carefully planned and closely controlled,’ it said.

The exercise comes weeks after a massive military parade on the 250thanniversary of the Army, an event that fell on President Trump’s birthday. The Department of Homeland Security warned of potential threats amid the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities before Trump announced a fragile ceasefire.

In January, a commercial airliner collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter during an approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport across the Potomac river form D.C.

Donald Trump has attacked his predecessor Joe Biden who he accused of allowing Iranian ‘supercells’ to enter the US.

Appearing to confuse supercells with sleeper cells after he was posed a question, spies who are sent to target countries to carry out surveillance missions if called upon, Trump appeared to suggest ‘many’ had arrived in the US from Iran.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said:

Biden was an incompetent president. Had no idea what he was doing. Among everything else, he let a lot of supercells in — many from Iran — but hopefully we’ll take care of them. What Biden did to this country should never be forgotten.

Despite the initial reports of violations, in both countries there was a palpable sense of relief that a path out of war had been charted.

Twelve days after Israel launched missiles in Iran, and two days after Trump joined in with strikes on Iranian nuclear targets, a ceasefire was announced late last night.

Speaking to Reuters, Iranian national Reza Sharifi, 38, said:

We’re happy, very happy. Who mediated or how it happened doesn’t matter. The war is over. It never should have started in the first place.

Reza is today heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea where he had relocated with his family to escape strikes on the capital.

Arik Daimant, a software engineer in Tel Aviv, added:

Regrettably, it’s a bit too late for me and my family, because our house back here was totally destroyed in the recent bombings last Sunday.

But as they say: ‘better late than never’, and I hope this ceasefire is a new beginning.

Donald Trump has insisted he does not want to see ‘regime change’ in Iran, which he said would lead to chaos.

‘If there was, there was, but no I don’t want it. I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible,’ Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. ‘Regime change takes chaos, and ideally we don’t want to see so much chaos.’

Speaking en route to a NATO summit in the Netherlands, Trump added Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon and that Russian President Vladimir Putin called him to offer his help with the conflict.

The administration has given mixed messages on leadership in Iran and Tuesday’s comment from Trump is a shift from his earlier comments suggesting the Iranian people may want new leaders.

Netanyahu and Trump at the White House in April

A statement released from the office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms he refrained from launching further strikes on Iran today following a phone call with Donald Trump.

The Israeli Air Force destroyed a radar near Tehran in response to what Israel described as three Iranian breaches of the ceasefire agreement.

According to Netanyahu’s office, the ceasefire was first violated by an Iranian missile at 7:06am – six minutes after it came into effect before two further missiles were launched at 10:25am. All three fell into open areas and caused no damage.

While Israel launched its own strike in Tehran at 3am as part of what it described as ‘targeting regime sites and eliminating hundreds of Basij members and Iranian security forces.’

A commander of the Iranian Basij paramilitary forces was killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Monday, it has been reported.

According to Iran’s Fars news agency, Brigadier General Mohammad Taghi Yusefvand was killed as Israel launched powerful strikes against regime targets across the capital, including the Basij headquarters.

While the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is an elite military force, the Basij is a loyalist militia usually made up of foot soldiers.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Donald Trump declined to say whether he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a cease fire between Israel and Iran.

The president gaggled with reporters on Air Force One as he makes his way to The Hague for a NATO meeting.

Trump announced a ceasefire between the two Middle East nations on Monday night but the two countries continued to exchange fire, resulting in the president saying he was ‘not happy’ with either of them.

‘Do you think you’ll get the Nobel peace Prize sir?,’ a reporter asked him as he ended the gaggle.

There was no response as the president returned to his private cabin on the airplane.

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has visited the scene of an Iranian missile attack in Beersheba where four people were killed and dozens more wounded.

Speaking at the scene of the attack, which destroyed homes, a school and a kindergarten, Herzog said Iran used one of its most dangerous weapons to wipe out ordinary Israelis.

He said:

That missile, which is one of the heaviest missiles in the Iranian arsenal, way above 400 kilos, landed here specifically to kill women, children, the elderly, people living ordinary lives.

A furious Donald Trump penned three posts on Truth Social as well as his rant on the White House lawn after claiming Israel and Iran both violated a ceasefire deal brokered by the President last night.

As he boarded Marine One to head to the Netherlands for a NATO summit, Trump posted the following:

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have revealed details of the final wave of attacks against Israel before the ceasefire came into effect.

In a statement posted by the Tasnim news agency, the IRGC said it fired 14 missiles at Israeli military centres this morning.

Iranian state television said the ceasefire, which was brokered by Donald Trump, would take place in Iran from 7.30am local time.

Israel claimed Tehran violated the truce by firing a ballistic missile after the agreement was in effect.

Iran has released new figures stating 610 people have been killed as a result of Israeli strikes over the past 12 days.

Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesman for the Iranian health ministry, said hospitals across the country had faced ‘extremely distressing scenes’ as he provided an update on the number of deaths and injuries.

He said 610 people had been killed and 4,746 had been injured, 971 of whom are currently in hospital.

Senior Trump administration officials conceded they do not know the fate of Iran’s 880 pounds of near-bomb-grade uranium, which appears to have been moved ahead of the American airstrike.

‘We are going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel and that’s one of the things that we’re going to have conversations with the Iranians about,’ Vice President JD Vance told ABC’s This Week on Sunday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of Iran, claims he moved the country’s uranium stockpile to a secret location before President Donald Trump’s attack on three nuclear sites, Iranian state media reported.

And two Israeli officials told the New York Times that the Iranians, cognizant of Trump’s repeated threats of military action, removed the 880 pounds of uranium out of caution.

Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defense contractor headquartered in Colorado, released footage of 16 trucks leaving the Fordow nuclear site on Saturday night before the bombs fell. The trucks appeared to be transporting material out of the facility.

President Trump called Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him not to attack Iran, an Axios reporter said citing an Israeli official.

Netanyahu told Trump that he was unable to cancel the attack and that it was needed because Iran violated the ceasefire, journalist Barak Ravid said.

The attack would be significantly scaled back and would not hit a large number of targets but only strike one target, according to the report.

Israel’s air force carried out a ‘small strike against an Iranian radar north of Tehran,’ The Times of Israel reports citing officials.

Pictures circulating in Israeli and Iranian media have shown clouds of smoke rising at what is said to be the site.

At the same time, Iran’s judiciary news outlet Mizan and the Shargh newspaper reported that two explosions were heard in the Iranian capital.

Israel is leaning towards carrying out an attack on Tehran, according to Israeli media reports.

The reports, citing officials, suggest that a ‘symbolic’ strike is likely.

Trump is on a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israeli media reports.

The call comes after the President issued a very public warning to Israel to stand down an attack on Iran.

Trump has insisted that Israel ‘is not going to attack Iran’ and said that the ceasefire he brokered remains ‘in effect’ after he issued a warning to the US ally.

Writing on his platform Truth Social, he said: ‘ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly “Plane Wave” to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!’

President Donald Trump unleashed on CNN, MSNBC and the TV networks for suggesting the U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites didn’t kill the Iranians nuclear program.

‘I think it has been completely demolished,’ Trump said, adding that the pilots did an ‘unbelievable job.’

‘And you know the fake news, CNN in particular, they’re trying to say, “Well, I agree that it was destroyed but maybe not that destroyed.” You know what they’re doing? They’re really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line,’ Trump said.

‘CNN is scum and so is MSDNC … and frankly the networks aren’t much better,’ Trump continued, speaking to reporters outside the White House early Tuesday morning as he departed for the NATO Summit in the Hague.

MSDNC – as in MS ‘Democratic National Committee’ – is a nickname the president uses for the left-leaning network, MSNBC.

‘That place is under rock. That place is demolished,’ the president said of the Iranian nuclear installment Fordow, the main target of Saturday’s strike. ‘The B-2 pilots did their job. They did it better than anybody could even imagine.’

‘It was dark with no moon and they hit their target with every one of those things and that place is gone,’ the president said. ‘But when I see CNN all night long, they’re trying to say, “maybe it wasn’t really as demolished as we thought.”

‘That place was gone,’ Trump insisted. ‘I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s, I think MSDNC ought to apologize. I think these guys, these networks, cable networks, are real losers. They really are. They’re real losers.’

Trump kept going.

‘They’re gutless losers. I say that to CNN because I watch it. I have no choice, I’ve got to watch that garbage, it’s all garbage. It’s all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people and the people that run it, nobody knows this because it’s been sold so many times, but the people who run it ought to be ashamed.’

‘MSDNC, a guy named Brian Roberts, he heads it, he’s a disgrace,’ Trump continued. ‘He’s a weak, pathetic disgrace.’

Roberts is the Comcast CEO, the company that owns NBCUniversal, though MSNBC, NBC’s cable channel, is expected to be spun off from the cable giant within the year.

Donald Trump has warned Israel not to target Tehran, writing in all capitals on Truth Social: ‘Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!’

The post comes after Israel said it is preparing to ‘respond forcefully’ to an earlier Iranian strike on its territory, which it said breached the ceasefire agreement.

President Donald Trump went on a foul-mouthed tirade saying that both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire deal that he announced Monday evening.

‘We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,’ Trump said before boarding Marine One en route to NATO early Tuesday morning.

During his gaggle with reporters outside the White House, Trump complained that ahead of when the ceasefire was to take hold, Israel launched another assault on Iran.

‘Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen,’ Trump said.

‘I’m not happy with Israel,’ he added. ‘I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel’s going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that.’

The Kremlin has today pushed back against criticism that it had not done enough to back Iran, insisting it had taken a ‘clear position’ by condemning US and Israeli strikes on Tehran.

President Vladimir Putin has condemned what he called ‘unjustified’ US attacks on nuclear sites in Iran, with which he signed a strategic cooperation treaty in January.

He said on Monday that Russia would try to help the Iranian people, although he gave no specifics.

Iranian sources told Reuters earlier this week that Tehran had not been impressed with Russia’s support so far.

Asked about comparisons to the toppling last year of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, when Moscow refused to send troops or more air power to keep its ally in power, the Kremlin said some people were trying to spoil the Russian-Iranian partnership.

‘Russia actually supported Iran with its clear position,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi had appreciated Moscow’s stance when he met Putin on Monday.

Donald Trump declared this weekend that his bunker-busting bombs ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear facilities and erased the Islamic Republic’s chances of building a bomb.

But no amount of triumphant bluster can hide the fact that Iran still boasts significant stockpiles of highly enriched uranium (HEU) – and could well have other facilities lying in wait to reach purity levels required to fashion nuclear warheads.

In May, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reported that Iran had accumulated more than 400 kilograms (900 lbs) of uranium enriched to 60% purity.

This is already enough to create an atomic weapon like those that laid waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Such bombs are too heavy and cumbersome for Iran to deploy effectively. But achieving the 90% enrichment required to produce modern nuclear devices small and light enough to mount to any one of Tehran’s vast array of missiles could take mere weeks.

Read the full story by 's Chief Foreign Reporter David Averre here:

Iran’s foreign minister has said his country’s attack on a US airbase in Qatar was not against its Gulf neighbour but an act of ‘self-defence’ after US strikes on nuclear sites.

‘The missile operation by the Iranian Armed Forces targeting Al-Udeid base was carried out within the framework of Iran’s legitimate right to self-defence,’ Araghchi said in a phone call with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani.

The Iranian attack ‘should in no way be interpreted as an action against the friendly and brotherly government of Qatar’, he said, quoted in a statement from his ministry.

Monday’s attack on Al Udeid Air Base was carried out in retaliation for American strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has held a phone call with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in which he expressed regret over the strike.

Details of the phone call were revealed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister in a press conference earlier today.

Qatar’s prime minister has said in a press conference that the overnight Iranian attack on a US airbase in his country was an ‘unacceptable act’.

He said he had held a phone call with Tehran today, during which the Iranian president ‘expressed regret’ for the attack.

Iran says it informed Qatar that the attack on the US base was not an action against Doha.

Iran has accused Israel of carrying out strikes on it after the ceasefire was meant to come into effect.

Israel struck Iran in three stages up until 9am local time (0530 GMT) on Tuesday, the spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters said, according to state TV.

Iranian state TV earlier said a ceasefire would take place in Iran from 7.30am local time on Tuesday.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, its top security body, earlier said its armed forces were prepared to ‘decisively respond’ to renewed attacks.

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi has said he had written to Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi to propose a meeting in a new show of co-operation following the announcement of a ceasefire deal.

Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a post on X that Iran resuming cooperation with the agency could lead to a diplomatic solution to the long-standing controversy over Tehran’s nuclear program.

However, since he made his plea Israel has accused Iran of violating the ceasefire which was brokered by the US earlier today.

Iran has repeatedly denied it is seeking nuclear weapons.

Iran is assessing damage to its nuclear industry and arrangements have been made for its restoration, Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami has said.

In a statement carried by Iran’s Mehr news, Elsami (pictured) said:

We have taken the necessary measures and are currently assessing the areas that were damaged.

Preparations for recovery had already been anticipated, and our plan is to prevent any interruption in production or services.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Russia is in favour of a ceasefire but that it is hard to make ‘final conclusions’ amid claims the truce has already been violated.

Mr Lavrov said it was important not to make ‘hasty’ judgements after reports strikes were carried out after Donald Trump declared he had brokered a ceasefire between the two countries.

‘It is very difficult to make any final conclusions now and get a clear picture,’ Lavrov said, in Russia’s first reaction to the ceasefire agreement announced by US President Donald Trump.

He added:

It’s reported that the Americans convinced Israel to agree to a ceasefire and to establish an indefinite truce, that our Qatari friends played a similar role with regard to Tehran

But after it was announced, there were reports of strikes, of an exchange of strikes between Israel and Iran. Therefore, let us not make any hasty conclusions based on fragmentary information.

Russia, which signed a strategic partnership agreement with Iran in January, has condemned Israeli and US attacks on Iran, as illegal and unprovoked. Iran has retaliated by striking Israeli cities and targeting a US military base in Qatar.

Iran’s top security body has insisted the country is ready to deliver a ‘decisive’ response in the event of further Israeli attacks.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said actions taken had led to ‘victory and triumph’ with Israel compelled to ‘accept defeat and halt its aggression’.

In a statement, the security council said Iranian forces ‘remain on high alert, with fingers on the trigger, ready to deliver a decisive and regret-inducing response to any act of aggression’.

It comes as Israel vowed to launch ‘intense strikes’ in Tehran following claims Iran had violated a ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump.

If you’re just joining us, here are the key updates so far this morning:

• Israel’s military has said it will attack ‘with force’ after accusing Iran of committing a ‘serious ceasefire violation’.
• The IDF said it had identified two ballistic missiles launched from Iran two hours after the ceasefire went into effect.
• Iran has denied launching the missiles and insisted it did not violate the ceasefire, according to state media.
• Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the warring sides last night, warning the arch foes ‘please do not violate it’.
• An Iranian missile hit a residential building in Beersheba this morning, killing four and injuring a dozen others.
• Iran experienced one of its most intense nights of the 12-day war, according to reports, with Tehran hit by missiles and at least nine people killed in the north, officials said.
• His declaration came after Iran launched missiles at a US airbase in Qatar – all of which were intercepted.

Qatar has summoned the Iranian ambassador after Iran attacked the major US military base on Qatari soil following American strikes on its nuclear facilities.

The foreign ministry expressed its ‘strong condemnation’ of the attack and repeated that it ‘retains the right to respond to this egregious violation’, a statement said.

News about a missile attack by Iran on Israel after the ceasefire took effect is false, Iran’s ISNA news agency has said.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Israeli politicians have called for retaliation following an apparent Iranian breach of the ceasefire announced by Donald Trump.

‘Tehran will tremble,’ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, wrote on X.

Limor Son Har-Melech, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, wrote: ‘Silence will be answered with silence, missiles will be answered with?’

And opposition politician Avigdor Liberman wrote: ‘Three and a half hours after the US President announced a ceasefire, shooting from Iran toward northern Israel.

‘We must not absorb, we must not ignore, we must respond immediately.’

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz says he has instructed the IDF to ‘respond forcefully’ amid claims Iran violated the ceasefire an hour after it came into effect.

Israel has claimed at least one ballistic missile has been launched from Iran following a truce brokered by US President Donald Trump.

Katz has called for ‘intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran’.

This is a breaking news post and will be updated

Israel’s Home Front Command has said civilians in northern Israel can exit bomb shelters after the latest missile fire from Iran.

The IDF said at least one ballistic missile was launched from Iran at Israel in the latest attack, which occurred after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect.

The missile was likely intercepted, the IDF said, with no immediate reports of impacts or injuries.

The IDF has just shared a statement saying it has detected missiles being launched from Iran at northern Israel.

‘The public is requested to follow the instructions of the Home Front Command. At this time, the Air Force is operating to intercept and strike wherever necessary to eliminate the threat,’ it said.

‘The defense is not hermetic, and therefore, it is necessary to continue following the instructions of the Home Front Command.’

Despite Israel and Iran both now saying they have agreed to a ceasefire, Israel’s military has warned civilians to stay vigilant.

Addressing the public this morning, IDF Spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a press conference: ‘You must continue to follow the guidelines, there is still a danger.’

He also said that the military is staying ‘on high alert’ and remains ‘prepared for a powerful response to any violation of the ceasefire.’

Iranian rockets continued to hit Israel this morning, killing at least four people, according to officials.

An Israeli politician has criticised Benjamin Netanyahu for agreeing a ceasefire with Iran, claiming it will ‘certainly’ lead to another war within three years.

Avigdor Lieberman, who was appointed defence minister by Netanyahu in 2016 in a coalition, warned there is ‘nothing more dangerous than leaving a wounded lion’ as he reacted to the deal brokered by Donald Trump.

Lieberman, who heads the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, said on X

A ceasefire without a clear and unambiguous agreement will certainly lead us to another war in two or three years, and under much worse conditions.

Iranian state television is this morning reporting mutliple people were killed following an Israeli strike at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison yesterday.

In a statement posted on X by the Tasnim news agency, an Iranian judiciary spokesperson said part of the jail was destroyed in the blast resulting in the deaths of ‘a number of judicial employees and people who had visited the prison’.

The statement added the strike was carried out during visiting time for families.

The exact number of deaths and fate of the prisoners has not been disclosed.

Israel targeted Evin prison – which it said which holds political prisoners and regime opponents – as part of a powerful wave of attacks across Tehran designed to further weaken the regime.

Watch the moment the prison was targeted below:

Following reports of an attack in northern Iran earlier, Iranian state television has said that an overnight Israeli strike killed a nuclear scientist.

Citing sources, the broadcaster reported the killing of Mohammad Reza Seddighi Saber at his parents’ residence in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh.

Mohammad Reza Seddighi Saber was under US sanctions. Several days ago, his 17-year-old son was reported killed in a strike on their home in Tehran, the broadcaster said.

European stock markets open sharply higher on Tuesday after a ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Iran.

As trading opened just after 7am, the DAX index in Germany gained 1.9%, the CAC 40 in France climbed 1.9% and the FTSE 100 in the UK rose 0.6%.

Experts said a pause in the fighting has removed a ‘key worry’ for investors.

Chris Beauchamp, Chief Market Analyst at IG, said:

Markets have cheered the news of a ceasefire in the Middle East, rallying hard as the prospect of a conflict between the US and Iran recedes into the background. The Israeli attack on Iran came as a surprise, as did the US strike at the weekend, but the pause in the fighting removes a key worry for investors and puts a sustained rally in equities back on the table.”

There are still hurdles to navigate, most notably the 8 July deadline for trade deals, but for the moment the market thinks that there will be some kind of fresh extension. Slumping oil prices have negated some inflation fears for now, and with two Fed governors calling for rate cuts the overall tone continues to be supportive for risk assets.

At least nine people have been killed and 33 injured in an attack in northern Iran, according to local officials, with Iranian media saying Israel was behind it.

Some 33 people were also injured, the governor’s office in the Gilan region said.

The nature of the attack on the city of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh is unclear but officials have labelled it a ‘terrorist’ attack.

Some outlets have reported that Iranian nuclear scientist Mohammad Reza Sedighi was among the dead.

Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that Israel and Iran reached out to him at the same time about arranging a ceasefire deal.

‘Israel & Iran came to me, almost simultaneously, and said, “PEACE!” I knew the time was NOW,’ he said.

‘The World, and the Middle East, are the real WINNERS! Both Nations will see tremendous LOVE, PEACE, AND PROSPERITY in their futures.

‘They have so much to gain, and yet, so much to lose if they stray from the road of RIGHTEOUSNESS & TRUTH. The future for Israel & Iran is UNLIMITED, & filled with great PROMISE. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH!’

Crews were seen working at impacted sites following a missile attack from Iran in Beersheba earlier this morning.

At least four people were killed after an Iranian missile hit a building in Beersheba.

Israel police said the barrage damaged at least three densely packed residential buildings.

The president posted on Truth Social that his ceasefire deal is in effect shortly after 1am ET.

‘THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!’ he said.

Here was his announcement an agreement had been struck which was made at 6:02pm ET or 11pm UK time.

Shocking footage has emerged showing an Iranian missile striking a residential building in Beersheba on Tuesday – killing four and injuring a dozen others.

The blast was captured on surveillance video and verified by the New York Times.

It shows thick smoke filling the air after the devastating strike.

The building targeted by the blast was left severely damaged and nearby residents are now fleeing for their lives.

At least four people were killed and several injured in Israel after Iran launched its latest missile barrage.

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency service, said four people were confirmed dead in missile strike in Beersheba.

As of 7.45am local time, two others were moderately injured and 20 people suffered minor injuries and anxiety.

The agency said they are continuing search and rescue operations.

The Israeli government has confirmed it has agreed to Donald Trump’s ceasefire proposal.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that ‘Israel will respond forcefully to any violation of the ceasefire.’

He added that Israel has achieved its goal of ‘removing Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile threat.’

His government said its operation – dubbed Rising Lion – had removed the ‘immediate existential threat’ of Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

In addition, it said the Israeli military ‘severely struck government targets in the heart of Tehran’ during the last 24 hours, as well as ‘eliminating another senior nuclear scientist.’

‘In addition, the IDF has achieved full air control over Tehran’s skies, inflicted severe damage on the military leadership, and destroyed dozens of central Iranian government targets,’ the statement adds.

Netanyahu is expected to deliver a statement later today.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage as US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel last night.

Trump made the declaration two weeks after Iran and Israel started exchanging missile strikes and two days after the US took out the Islamic Republic’s nuclear labs.

The president said on Monday evening that the ’12 day war’ will ‘end’ in 24 hours – shortly after Tehran attacked America’s largest military base in the Middle East.

Israel has said it has accepted the ceasefire.

Stick with us as we bring you the latest updates from the Middle East