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NHK
24-06-2025
- Politics
- NHK
Israel orders strikes against Tehran, Iran reportedly denies ceasefire violated
The Israeli Defense Ministry says Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to strike Tehran. The ministry accuses Iran of firing missiles toward Israel in violation of a ceasefire. A statement issued on Tuesday says Katz has instructed Israeli forces to respond to Iran's move with intense attacks against government targets in the heart of Tehran. Meanwhile, Iran's state-run media said the general staff of the armed forces has denied that any missile launches from Iran against Israel had taken place in recent hours. Earlier in the day, Iran's state-run television reported that the ceasefire had begun. US President Donald Trump said online on Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to it.
CNA
24-06-2025
- Politics
- CNA
'Not happy': Trump accuses Israel, Iran of breaching truce
US President Donald Trump accused both Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire on Tuesday (Jun 24), hours after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel which had announced plans for major new strikes on Tehran. Speaking to reporters before leaving for the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump said Israel "unloaded" right after agreeing to the deal. Trump said he was not happy with Iran, "but really unhappy with Israel". "Israel, do not drop those bombs," he said. "If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now." He added that Israel had to calm down. "I gotta get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "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." "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." CEASEFIRE? Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz earlier said he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were missiles fired by Iran in a violation of the ceasefire announced hours earlier by Trump. The minister said in a statement he had ordered the military to "continue high-intensity operations targeting regime assets and terror infrastructure in Tehran" in light of "Iran's blatant violation of the ceasefire declared by the President of the US". Iran denied violating the ceasefire. The armed forces general staff denied that there had been any launch of missiles towards Israel in recent hours, Iran's Nour News reported. Both Israel and Iran had confirmed the ceasefire after Trump's announcement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country had achieved the goals it set in launching its Jun 13 surprise attack on Iran - to destroy its nuclear programme and missile capabilities. "Israel thanks President Trump and the US for their support in defence and their participation in eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat," Netanyahu had said. Iran's top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, said its military had forced Israel to "unilaterally accept defeat and accept a ceasefire". Iran's forces would "keep their hands on the trigger" to respond to "any act of aggression by the enemy", it said. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi had said that Iran would halt its retaliatory strikes provided that Israel stopped attacking as of 4am in Tehran. In the last reported strikes before the ceasefire, missiles killed four people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, the Israeli ambulance service said. Iranian officials said nine people, including a nuclear scientist, were killed in a strike on a residential building in northern Iran. GLOBAL RELIEF Despite the early threats to the ceasefire, the response across the region and wider world was largely one of relief at the prospect of an end to the biggest direct confrontation ever between the two foes. Global stock markets surged and oil prices tumbled after the ceasefire announcement, in the hope it heralded a resolution of the war two days after the US hit Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-busting bombs. "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," said Reza Sharifi, 38, heading back to Tehran from Rasht on the Caspian Sea, where he had relocated with his family to escape strikes on the capital. "I was so worried that Iran would end up like Syria or Iraq," said Maryam, 41, who stayed in Tehran because her family had no money to travel. "I want my two children to grow up in peace. I want them to live their childhood happily." Israel attacked on Jun 13, hitting Iranian nuclear sites and killing the top echelon of its military command in the worst threat faced by the Islamic Republic since war with Iraq in the 1980s. During the campaign, Israel said it was prepared to topple Iran's clerical rulers if necessary to achieve its aims and struck symbolic targets unrelated to the military, culminating on Monday with a strike on Tehran's Evin prison. Iranian officials say hundreds of people have been killed in airstrikes. Full information about the extent of the damage cannot be confirmed independently, with media tightly controlled. Iran's retaliatory missile strikes killed 28 people in Israel, the first time large numbers of Iranian missiles have penetrated its defences. Trump entered the war on Saturday with strikes on Iranian nuclear sites buried under a mountain using huge bombs that Israel does not possess. A senior White House official said Trump had brokered the ceasefire deal in a call with Netanyahu, and Israel had agreed so long as Iran did not launch further attacks. "On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR'," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani secured Tehran's agreement during a call with Iranian officials, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US special envoy Steve Witkoff were in direct and indirect contact with the Iranians, a White House official said. Iran had responded to the US participation in the airstrikes by firing missiles on Monday at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. No one was hurt in that strike, with Iran's retaliation apparently calibrated to allow de-escalation afterwards. Trump thanked Tehran for warning the US in advance to avoid injuries, and called the strike "a very weak response, which we expected, and have very effectively countered". The US had been negotiating with Iran to agree curbs to its nuclear programme, after Trump quit a previous agreement in 2018. Iran has always said its nuclear programme is peaceful.
Washington Post
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Iran fires on U.S. air base as Israel broadens strikes on Tehran
ISTANBUL — Iran fired missiles toward an American air base in Qatar on Monday, retaliating for U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities with a less-than-furious attack that caused no casualties and seemed intended to head off a more vicious American response. In an initial statement, Iran's armed forces hailed the assault on the al-Udeid Air Base as 'decisive' and said it sent a message the country would answer any 'aggression.' Qatar condemned the attack, calling it a 'flagrant violation of sovereignty' and said the missiles were intercepted. Several gulf states closed their airspace after the attack, amid uncertainty about whether more would follow.
ABC News
23-06-2025
- ABC News
Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar
Traces are seen in the sky after Iran's armed forces say they targeted The Al-Udeid base in a missile attack, as seen from Doha, Qatar, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ( Reuters: Stringer )
Bloomberg
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Iran Launches Missiles at US Base in Qatar: State Media
00:00 This is not a surprise. The US has been bracing for and positioning for some kind of retaliation. Well, and Iran has been warning of one scarlet. The important context here is that the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces in a video message earlier today, promised that Iran would be responding to the US attacks on its nuclear sites proportionately and decisively. And perhaps the Wall Street Journal here is indicating that that retaliation may potentially be coming soon, as it were. Iran, according to US officials briefed by the Wall Street Journal, is moving missile launchers into place for a potential attack. And the Department of Defense is tracking what they describe as, quote, a credible threat to US forces in the Middle East. This also comes as we're tracking a number of developments centered around Cutter in particular. Cutter, of course, closed off its airspace earlier today in a move that they said was precautionary. The US embassy in Qatar has also issued a warning to Americans to shelter in place. And China's embassy has urged citizens in Qatar specifically to avoid a loaded airbase. This is important because that base houses house hosts, hoses, thousands of US troops. It is our largest installation in the Middle East. It's actually headquarters of US Central Command, in addition to housing Qatari air forces, as well as the Royal Air Force. And so that is very a very key military installation that the US has that there is a lot of buzz about could potentially be targeted. Keeping in mind, of course, that President Trump had previously promised if there were retaliation, the US would respond with even greater force than the attacks we saw over this weekend is the administration has issued repeated warnings not to target U.S. military assets or personnel. But again, the The Wall Street Journal is reporting here that Iran does look to at least be moving into a position in which it could do so. And as you're speaking, Kelly, some other headlines have just crossed as well, according to Axios. Iran has launched a six missiles toward US bases in Qatar. And Reuters has also reported that there have been explosions heard over Qatar's capital of Doha. So again, you reference how Qatar has stopped some flights. That would make sense given they had anticipated some kind of retaliatory action. And again, according to Reuters, the explosions have been heard over covers capital of Doha. Kelly, tell us a little bit more about the mindset in Washington. Clearly, the weekend attacks is what everyone's talking about. But as we were just discussing with Max Layton of City, there's a lot of, I guess, expectation within the commodities market that now that the strikes are over and the US kind of waits to see how Iran responds, there's very much an expectation that the administration will return its focus to domestic matters. What are you seeing in Washington? Well, much of that will depend on the way in which Iran responds. Scarlett, I would note that as we're seeing this reporting about explosions outside Doha, the Arabic baby air base, which I just mentioned, is just southwest of Doha. So it very much could be included in whatever this materializes to be. And if there are any U.S. casualties, that could be something that President Trump feels compelled to respond to. Again, to quote him directly from this weekend, he warned any retaliation will be met with force far greater than what was witnessed during the initial attack on Saturday night. So that does indicate that the US could still be prepared to act militarily if necessary. The President likely will be getting input from his National Security Council team. He is supposed to meet with them in the Oval Office. That will be closed to press just about 20 minutes from now at 1 p.m. Eastern time so we could get more of a readout then as to what exactly the US is thinking. But of course, the president has to keep in mind various political pressures. There is not much appetite in the US for the US to get involved in another direct war in the Middle East. The MAGA base of the President's party in particular, of course has much more of an isolationist bent, doesn't want to see the US be that interventionist. So he has to consider those domestic political pressures as well as he surveys the geopolitical geopolitical landscape here. But a lot is going to depend on what we can confirm around these reports as to whether or not Iran has decided to attack U.S. military assets and if there are any casualties that could result from that.
