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Sky News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Iran confirms it has agreed to ceasefire with Israel - as Trump declares it will begin within hours
A "complete and total ceasefire" has been agreed between Israel and Iran, according to Donald Trump. The US president made the announcement on Truth Social - hours after Tehran launched a missile strike on a US army base in Qatar. In a post shared at just after 11pm UK time, Mr Trump said the first stage of the ceasefire would begin six hours later. This means both countries could still launch strikes in the meantime - and soon after, Israel announced evacuation orders for two areas in Tehran. A senior Iranian official told the Reuters news agency that Tehran has agreed to the ceasefire after being persuaded by Qatar. Mr Trump wrote: "Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. "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.' "This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't, and never will!" 2:58 Just hours earlier, people in the Qatari capital Doha had stopped and gazed up at the sky as Iranian missiles flew to the American al Udeid base and interceptors fired. Officials said there were no casualties, and the US later confirmed it had been warned about the attack by Iran. Mr Trump was in the Situation Room in the White House as the strikes took place. He later claimed on his social network that the missiles were a "very weak response", which the US "expected" and "very effectively countered". The Iranian attack came after the US dropped "bunker buster bombs" on three key nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. 1:08 In a new interview on Fox News, US Vice President JD Vance claimed Iran is no longer able to build nuclear weapons after the American attacks. "Iran was very close to having a nuclear weapon," he said. "Now Iran is incapable of building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they have because we destroyed it."
Reuters
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Iran ready to respond again in case of any further action by US, foreign minister says
June 23 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday that Tehran's attack on U.S military base al-Udeid in Qatar came in response to the U.S. "aggression against Iran's territorial integrity and sovereignty." He said Iran will be ready to respond again in case of further action by the U.S., according a statement posted by the Iranian foreign ministry's account on Telegram.
Al Arabiya
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Bahrain says it has shut airspace after Iran attack on US air base in Qatar
Bahrain said on Monday that it has shut down its airspace temporarily as a 'precaution' after Iran attacked the al-Udeid US military base in Doha. Bahrain is home to the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, whose area of responsibility includes the Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.
Al Arabiya
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
US military aircraft no longer visible at base in Qatar: Satellite images
Dozens of US military aircraft are no longer on the tarmac at a major US base in Qatar, satellite images show – a possible move to shield them from eventual Iranian air strikes, as Washington weighs whether to intervene in Tehran's conflict with Israel. Nearly 40 military aircraft – including transport planes like the Hercules C-130 and reconnaissance aircraft – were parked on the tarmac at the al-Udeid base on June 5, according to images published by Planet Labs PBC and analyzed by AFP. In an image taken on June 19, only three aircraft are visible. The US embassy in Qatar announced Thursday that access to the base would be limited 'out of an abundance of caution and in light of ongoing regional hostilities,' and urged personnel to 'exercise increased vigilance.' The White House says US President Donald Trump will decide sometime in the next two weeks whether to join ally Israel's strikes on Iran. Iran could then respond by striking US bases in the region. Mark Schwartz, a former lieutenant general in the US Army and a defense researcher at the Rand Corporation, said the personnel, aircraft and installations at al-Udeid would be 'extremely vulnerable' given its 'close proximity' to Iran. Schwartz, who served in the Middle East, told AFP that even shrapnel could render the aircraft 'non-mission capable.' 'You want to reduce risk to US forces, both personnel and equipment,' he said. The planes that have left the tarmac since early June could have been moved to hangars or to other bases in the region. A US defense official would not discuss the specific positioning of assets but told AFP: 'We remain committed to maintaining operational security while executing our mission with the highest level of readiness, lethality and professionalism.' US forces in the Middle East have been mobilized since Israel's first strikes on Iran nearly a week ago, with an additional aircraft carrier en route and significant aircraft movement. An AFP analysis of open source data tracking aircraft positioning showed that at least 27 military refueling planes – KC-46A Pegasus and KC-135 Stratotanker planes – traveled from the United States to Europe from June 15–18. Twenty-five of them were still in Europe as of late Wednesday, with only two returning to American soil, the data showed.
