The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stab Air Force General Dan Caine discusses the mission details of a strike against Iran during a press conference in Pentagon on June 22, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Israel and Iran reached an armistice in their 12-day war on Monday, said President Donald Trump on social media.
The ceasefire will come into force at midnight, he said.
“It was fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and complete ceasefire … for 12 hours. At that time the war was considered, ended!” Trump card wrote. “Iran will officially begin the ceasefire and in the 12th hour Israel will start the armistice and in the 24th hour an official end of the 12 -day war is welcomed by the world. While every ceasefire, the other side remains peaceful and respectful.
“On the assumption that everything works as it should, what it wants, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, that the endurance, courage and intelligence end what should be called,” the 12 -day war, “he continued.” This is a war that would have been going and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it never did it! “
Neither Israel nor Iran immediately confirmed the agreement to hire hostilities, but the Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi tweeted about three hours after Trump’s post that the country’s military had stopped fighting.
“The military operations of our powerful armed forces to punish Israel for his aggression took until the last minute at 4 a.m.,” he wrote. “Together with all Iranians, I would like to thank our brave armed forces, who remain ready to defend our dear country to their last drop of blood and who reacted to an attack by the enemy until the last minute.”
There was no confirmation from Israel tardy Monday.
Trump’s announcement was only a few hours after Iran fired rockets on a US military base in Qatar in retaliation for weekend attacks on nuclear facilities. The rockets were shot down without causing victims, Trump wrote.
The Iran acted in front of the strike, said Trump, to minimize the losses-a signal of the de-escalation that Trump seemed ready to accept.
“Iran officially reacted to our extinction of its nuclear facilities with a very weak reaction that we had expected and counted very effectively” wrote Monday afternoon. “14 rockets were fired – 13 were put down and I became” free “because it was directed in a non -threatening direction. I am pleased to report that no Americans have been damaged and hardly any damage was done.
“The most important thing is that you have brought everything out of your” system “, and hopefully there will be no further hatred. I would like to thank Iran to ensure that he took note of what it was possible for us that it was possible that no life has been lost and nobody can be hurt. Perhaps Iran can now go to the region of peace and harmony and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do Israel.”
Mike Johnson, spokesman for the US house, said the Iran counterattack was expected.
“This is the expected retaliation” Video posted on social media From CNN. “So far, so good. No victims.”
No briefings in advance for Dems
Despite Trump’s description of the “extinction” of the Iranian nuclear systems, it was unclear how damaged the country’s nuclear program was damaged by the country US bombing of three huge nuclear enrichment devices On Saturday, the American democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said at a press conference on Monday.
The New York Democrat said that he was not informed by the government before the operation, which only received a “courtesy call” from the White House that strikes were imminent.
A classified briefing with the so-called gang of eight years of republican and democratic soil guides and the best members of the intelligence agency shot planned for Tuesday in every Congress Chamber Sei.
“We have not seen any evidence that the government’s offensive strike is justified in Iran, and we don’t even know how effective the strike was,” said Jeffries. “There is no evidence that the nuclear program, as Donald Trump claimed, was completely and completely wiped out, no evidence that was presented to the congress to indicate that this has happened. Let’s see what happens in the classified briefing tomorrow.”
Jeffries emphasized Trump’s intervention in the war between Iran and Israel, without the first thing to gain support of the congress.
But he asked questions about whether the decision was an impulsive crime or whether he would support a cross -party resolution to restrict the president of the president of waging war.
“The use of military violence that is offensive to nature must be approved by the house and the Senate,” he said. “This is according to the constitution. It is not optional, Donald.”
War powers resolution
Jeffries said he “did not look at the resolution sponsored by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie and the California Democrat Ro Khanna. Due to rules, changes in the GOP majority of the house cannot be taken into account immediately, he said.
Massie said Monday The resolution had 57 cosponsors in the house.
Johnson said he would not support the resolution.
“I don’t think it is a reasonable time for a war powers,” said Johnson. “And I don’t think it’s necessary.”
The New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and other members of Jeffries’ Caucus have proposed to complain about his operate of military violence without the consent of the congress.
When asked whether the Democrats would pursue the elevation if they regained the majority in the 2026 intermediate elections, Jeffries stated that this would not be his first step.
“A tool that is currently on the table is to continue to demand that the administration introduces itself before the United States congress and entering the American people a case about why this was taken extraordinary,” he said. “This is step one. Step two applies to the decision of the war powers, which is to be discussed on the house floor, as it should have already happened, and then we will see where we are afterwards.”
