Iran announced on Monday the “cessation” of his military operation against Israelafter both countries attacked each other directly for the first time since the beginning of a fragile cease-firewhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would also suspend attacks, for now.
The American president, donald trumphad previously claimed Iran, but also its ally Israel, which “immediately” stop the attacksthe first since April 8, when the truce in the war in the Middle East came into force.
After weeks of negotiations to try to end the conflict, the region caught fire again following a Israeli bombing over the suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, to which Iran responded with a salvo of missiles.
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The Israeli army launched attacks against several Iranian cities, including Tehran, and targeted defense systems and a petrochemical complex.
“Israel and Iran must stop shooting immediately,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.
In a message shortly afterward, he said that both sides seek to “reach a CEASE-FIRE “and that negotiations move forward “unless ignorance or stupidity gets in the way.
The command of the Iranian armed forces claimed to have “inflicted a forceful response” to Israel and announced “the cessation of the operation.
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However, he warned that, “if acts of aggression and hostility continue, including in southern Lebanon, much more severe measures and forceful than the previous ones”.
Almost an hour later, two Israeli military officials with knowledge of the situation and who requested anonymity told the American newspaper The New York Times that Netanyahu would have ordered the Israeli Army stop preparations for a new attack against Iran.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahulater confirmed the suspension “for now” of the attacks against Iran, although he assured that the fight against Tehran and Hezbollah “has not ended.”
“After Iran attacked Israel” in support of Hezbollah following Israel’s retaliatory attacks against the group in Beirut, “I ordered the Israel Defense Forces to attack military and economic targets throughout Iran,” Netanyahu said in a video statement.
“At the moment, fighting on this front has stoppedbecause after the terrorist regime in Tehran was attacked, it stopped attacking us,” said the Israeli premier, who warned that “if that terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.”
Trump tried unsuccessfully on Sunday to appease Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to counterattack Iran, to prevent it from hindering Washington’s negotiations with Tehran to end the war.
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