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Has Iran Broken Ceasefire? What We Know [1]
['Shane Croucher', 'Newsweek Staff', 'Jonathan Harounoff']
Date: 2025-06-24 03:46:50-04:00
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Israel has accused Iran of violating the ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump and said it will strike Tehran in retaliation. But the Iranian state broadcaster reported a denial by Iran's military of any such violation.
Israel's military said it had intercepted missiles fired from Iran on Tuesday morning, after the ceasefire—which Trump said both sides had agreed to—came into effect.
Alerts were activated in northern Israel as the country's air force scrambled to stop the threat. The Israeli military said a few minutes later that civilians could leave shelters.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered his country's military to "respond forcefully to Iran's violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran," The Times of Israel reported.
Israeli soldiers from the search and rescue unit work amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Israeli soldiers from the search and rescue unit work amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
A spokesperson for the command headquarters of the Iranian armed forces accused Israel of attacking Iran after the ceasefire took effect, state media reported.
Trump had earlier pleaded with Israel and Iran to uphold a ceasefire he said both sides had requested.
The governor of Tehran accused Israel of striking 12 areas of his province earlier in the morning, Iranian state media reported.
Iran Claims 'Victory'
Iran's Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council released a statement announcing a cessation of hostilities, claiming it had inflicted defeat on Israel and the U.S.
The Iranian response to Israel's attacks "brought victory and honor against the enemy and did not allow defeat or failure to be remembered," the statement said.
The Iranian foreign minister had earlier denied any ceasefire agreement, but also signaled that Tehran would adhere to a truce.
"As of now, there is NO 'agreement' on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations," Abbas Araghchi wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards."
Araghchi added: "The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later."
Netanyahu Thanks Trump, Warns Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the ceasefire and said he had agreed to it, but warned his country would "respond forcefully to any violation."
"Israel has removed from itself an immediate existential double threat—both in the nuclear domain and in the field of ballistic missiles," Netanyahu said in a statement on Tuesday morning, originally in Hebrew.
"Additionally, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) achieved full air superiority over Tehran's skies, struck a heavy blow to the military leadership, and destroyed dozens of central government targets in Iran.
"Even in the past 24 hours, the IDF has severely struck government targets in the heart of Tehran, eliminated hundreds of Basij operatives—the regime's repression mechanism—and neutralized another senior nuclear scientist."
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