The Israeli government on Tuesday morning announced it had agreed to a ceasefire, hours after trading a barrage of overnight strikes with Iran.
Tuesday morning began with widespread confusion over when the ceasefire deal, first announced by US President Donald Trump the night prior, would take effect.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, tweeted that “provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people…we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.” adding that “The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
Iranian state media later announced that a ceasefire was indeed in effect, with Trump declaring the ceasefire had “taken effect” shortly after 7am CET.
Strikes killed nine in Iran and four in Israel in the early hours of Tuesday, after the ceasefire agreement was announced but had not yet taken hold.
In Tehran, the strikes came shortly after 4am local time — the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had indicated Iran would halt its attacks if Israel stopped its airstrikes.
Trump’s declaration of a “complete and total ceasefire” followed Iran’s limited missile strike on a US military base in Qatar on Monday, a response to American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites.brt
