On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel had agreed to the peace deal, which followed further strikes by Israeli jets on Iranian targets on Monday and missile attacks on Israel by Iran.
Questions remain about what happens now, with Iran insisting it won’t abandon its ability to enrich uranium, but its regimes leaders greatly weakened.
Early on Tuesday morning, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would stop its missile attacks if Israel stopped its airstrikes by 4am local time (2am GMT).
A civilian retrieves personal belongings from the rubble of his house after a ballistic missile fired from Iran struck Tel Aviv (Photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Writing over an hour after a deadline passed for Iran to halt its attacks, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!”
As well as the fragility of the ceasefire, it’s unclear what terms the two sides have agreed to.
But he added: “Iran is greatly weakened but what is the future of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs?
Will Israel be happy?
On Monday, three Israeli officials said their government was looking to wrap up its campaign in Iran soon and had passed the message on to the US, but that much would depend on Tehran.
Confirming Israel had agreed to Trump’s ceasefire plan, Netanyahu claimed the military operation achieved its goals and has eliminated the Iranian nuclear threat.
Satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage at the Fordo enrichment facility in Iran after the US strikes (Photo: Maxar Technologies via AP)
Ali Vaez, Iran director for the International Crisis Group, said every side could now claim victory while avoiding a larger, more damaging conflict.
“Israel can say it has weakened Iran, a regional adversary, and Iran can say it has survived and pushed back against much stronger military powers.”
Iran claims it smuggled its stockpile of enriched uranium to a secret location before the US launched its bunker-buster bomb strikes on nuclear facilities on Sunday.
The material was though to have been stored at the Isfahan facility, which was the target of US tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a submarine, Natanz and Fordo, the main enrichment facility.
A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber returns to its Missouri base after attacking key Iranian nuclear sites (Photo: ABC Affiliate KMBC via Reuters)In an interview with Fox News, US Vice President JD Vance refused to confirm if Washington knows where the enriched uranium is while insisting it was now “buried”.
But he admitted it would take time to assess the overall damage.
“They have enough enriched uranium somewhere, and they took some advanced centrifuges somewhere, in order to enable them to someday go to a nuclear device,” Shine said.
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David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told NPR Iran may have thousands of uranium-enriching centrifuges installed in sites other than Natanz and Fordo, with inspections needed to asses Tehran’s nuclear programme.
What is the fallout for Keir Starmer?
Attorney General Lord Hermer reportedly raised concerns that the UK becoming involved in the Iran-Israel conflict could be illegal.
After meeting Trump at the G7 summit in Canada, the Prime Minister had said “there’s nothing the president said that suggests that he’s about to get involved in this conflict”.
Donald Trump holding a UK US trade deal with Sir Keir Starmer at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada (Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)As he headed to the Nato summit on Tuesday, Starmer pledged to meet a new target to spend five per cent of GDP on national security by 2035, a move it’s hoped will placate Trump.
There have also been fears about volatile oil prices since the Iran-Israel conflict flared hitting drivers at the petrol pump and sending the cost of living soaring.
Oil prices tumbled five per cent on Tuesday after news of the ceasefire having soared has high as $81 a barrel, but it will be hoped the fragile peace deal holds.
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