UPDATE:
Iran already violated the ceasefire, but Trump laid down the law:
An eruption of Trumpian temper sent shock waves across the Middle East on Tuesday, leading Israel to scale back an attack it planned on Tehran, according to emerging reports.
What was planned as a vengeful attack to deliver bombs and comeuppance to Tehran for violating the ceasefire President Donald Trump declared on Monday, ended up with Israeli jets attacking an Iranian radar installation near Tehran, according to the Times of Israel.
The background: On Monday, Trump announced that a ceasefire would begin as a first step to wind down the conflict between Israel and Iran that began on June 13. The United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday, fulfilling Trump’s goal that Iran would not have a nuclear weapon.
However, Israel accused Iran of launching missiles after the ceasefire took effect. Axios reported the missiles were launched at 7:06 a.m. and 10:25 a.m. local time.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the missiles were “intercepted or landed in open areas without causing injuries or damage.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted on X that Iran “severely violated the ceasefire” and that Israel would respond with a severe attack.,
Trump, heading for a NATO summit, erupted at the prospect of peace blown to bits by a devastating revenge raid, Axios reported.
“When I say 12 hours [of ceasefire], you don’t go out in the first hour and drop everything you have on them,” Trump said. “I am not happy with Israel going out this morning because of one rocket that was shot [by Iran], perhaps by mistake.”
“We have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they are doing,” he said.
Netanyahu and Trump spoke by phone, with the Israeli leader saying his country needed to slap Iran for the violation.
“In the end, it was decided to significantly scale back the strike, cancel the attack on a large number of targets and strike only one radar system outside of Tehran,” an Israeli official said.
Axios reported that a White House source told it that Trump talked to Netanyahu in “an exceptionally firm and direct way.”
My fellow Americans, we have a REAL PRESIDENT!
The good stuff starts at 5:00 into the video.
It’s a cease fire, not a plan for peace. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Iran called first. It was an obligatory, face saving tactic. The base was evacuated, thus preventing Iran from being flattened.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings said Monday that President Donald Trump has earned “vindication” on his strategy regarding the bombing of Iran, adding that the country has expressed “complete and total capitulation” to the United States.
Jennings’ statement on the social media platform X was based on a screenshot from a New York Times reporter’s post that claimed Iran had coordinated with Qatari officials about its retaliatory attacks on American bases in Qatar.
This was done because “Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the U.S.” without inviting further wrath.
Jennings wrote, “If true, complete and total capitulation and vindication for President Trump’s strategy here.”
President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, concluding the first direct war between the two longtime rivals.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump congratulated Israel and Iran, announcing a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” beginning “approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!” The end of hostilities will begin with a 12-hour ceasefire and, if held, will signal an end to the war, Trump said.
Related post:
https://sfcmac.com/midnight-hammer-us-strikes-3-iranian-nuclear-sites-updated/