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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “full and total fire”, although the Tehran government denied hours after this was true and said that it will only stop their attacks if Israel does it first.
“Israel and Iran have fully agreed that there will be a high and complete fire (within approximately 6 hours, when Israel and Iran have finished their ongoing final missions), for 12 hours, at which time the war will be considered to be over,” wrote the president in his social social network.
According to the president, the high fire would be implemented gradually for the next 24 hours.
“Officially, Iran will begin the stop on fire and, at 12 noon, Israel will start the stop to fire and, at 24 hours, the world will officially celebrate the end of the 12 -day war. During each high to the fire, the other part will remain peaceful and respectful,” Trump wrote.
Hours after this announcement, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, published an X message in which he denied that there was an agreement, although he pointed out that if Israel stops his “illegal aggression” now, Tehran “has no intention of continuing our response later.”
Araghchi said Israel should stop his attacks before 4:00 am, which has already passed.
“As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched the war against Iran, not vice versa.
“At the moment, there is no ‘agreement’ on any fire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4:00 am, Tehran time, we have no intention of continuing our response later. The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be taken later,” Araghchi wrote.
In a later message, the Iraní Foreign Minister wrote: “The military operations of our powerful armed forces to punish Israel for their aggression continued until the last minute, at 4 in the morning.”
“Together with all the Iranians, I thank our brave armed forces, who are ready to defend our beloved country to the last drop of blood and responded to any attack of the enemy until the last minute.”
At the moment the Israel government has not spoken about Trump’s announcement. On Monday night, Israeli attacks were reported in Tehran and other Iranian locations.
The news of a possible cessation of hostilities is known hours after Iran launched a missile attack against an American base in Qatar on Monday, in response to US attacks on their nuclear facilities on Saturday.
The missiles, which caused the closure of the Qatari airspace, were intercepted in their entirety and were not injured or dead, according to the authorities of Qatar and the USA.
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The US atauqes in Iran
Media in the US reports that the Catarí Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, contributed to ensuring the high fire, according to officials involved in the negotiations.
According to them, Qatar was involved in the American proposal after talking on the phone with Iranian officials, after they will attack a US base in Qatar.
The United States joined Israel on Saturday in its military offensive against Iran, attacking three Iranian nuclear facilities, which meant a significant escalation in the Middle East conflict
Both the Israeli government and the American say that their objective of these attacks is to stop the Iranian nuclear program, noting that Tehran was close to getting a nuclear weapon, something that has not been confirmed by Western intelligence agencies.
On June 13 Israel began its attacks against Iranian military and nuclear facilities, as well as against high command of the Armed Forces of Tehran and against nuclear scientists, causing the death of hundreds of people, many of them civilians.
In response, Iran has launched missile attacks on the Israeli territory, in which about twenty people and tens have been injured.
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