US President Donald Trump said Iran and Israel have accepted a “complete and total” ceasefire, which will come into force in the coming hours.
Monday’s Trump’s announcement came shortly after an Iranian missile attack on Al Udeid air base in Qatar, which is home to American troops.
“Assuming that everything works as it should be, what will do, I would like to congratulate the two countries, Israel and Iran, to have endurance, courage and intelligence to end, which should be called,” the 12 -day war “,” said Trump in an article on social media.
“It is a war that could have continued for years and destroyed the whole Middle East, but that is not the case, and will never do it!” May God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America and may God bless the world! “
Neither Israel nor Iran confirmed the agreement.
Trump’s statement suggested that Iran would stop shooting Israel a few hours before the Israeli soldiers end.
Reporting to Tehran, Tohid Asadi of Tel Aviv Tribune noted that there had been no official confirmation of the agreement more than an hour after Trump’s announcement.
“Barely a few minutes ago, we heard the sounds of the explosions linked to an interception and activation of the air defense system here across the capital,” said Asadi.
“The reality on the ground is therefore that we are witnessing the continuation of Israeli strikes, and this opens the way to new reprisals by the Iranian part.”
The Middle East analyst Omar Rahman told Tel Aviv Tribune that many details are absent from Trump’s announcement, especially if the negotiations would follow the alleged ceasefire.
Rahman accused Trump of previous “deception” on behalf of Israel. The American president had reaffirmed the American commitment in the hours of diplomacy before Israel launched his initial attack on Iran.
Last week, Trump said that he would decide within two weeks to join Israel in the war, to strike Iran two days later.
Rahman said that a great Israeli attack in the last hours, including the possible assassination of the Iranian supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could explode the agreement.
“If this is the last operation, it would suddenly end the war? No, of course, not. So, I don’t know what’s in the cards,” he said.
Israel launched a massive attack on Iran in the early hours of June 13, without direct provocation. Israeli officials said the strikes, who had killed hundreds of people, were “pre -emptive” and aimed at the country’s nuclear and missile programs.
In the first wave of attacks, Israel killed several Iranian generals.
Iran said that attacks were an assault not caused in violation of the United Nations Charter and responded with hundreds of missiles that left generalized destruction within Israel.
Trump has authorized the United States on three Iranian nuclear installations on Saturday.
Earlier Monday, Iran launched an unprecedented missile attack at the Al Udeid air base in Qatar in response to American strikes. Trump rejected reprisals as “weak”, suggesting that the United States would not respond.
Liqaa Maki, a scholar of Tel Aviv Tribune Media Institute, said that the United States could be able to resist Iranian attacks against its bases without responding if they do not cause victims.
“The United States, after the important strike of Iranian nuclear installations, must transform military realization into a political achievement devoted by an agreement,” Maki told Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic after the Iranian attack.
He noted that Iran still has large amounts of highly enriched uranium as well as nuclear know-how.
“Thus, in two to three years, Iran could resume its nuclear activity but without inspections. It could produce a bomb without the world noticing,” said Maki.
The damage that the Iranian nuclear program has suffered remains uncertain. Iran insists that it does not pursue a nuclear weapon, while Israel is widely considered as an unconceived nuclear arsenal.
