The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced late this Monday in a message on his social network, Truth, an agreement between Israel and Iran for a “high total fire” that ends what he has called “the 12 -day war.” It was June 13 when Israel launched the first bombings under the pretext, still to prove, that Tehran is very close to getting the atomic bomb.
On the ground, as the special envoy of El País has observed, Iran has launched at dawn on Tuesday six missile waves on different regions of Israel. The attacks have remained “until the last minute”, as the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has recognized on the social network X (formerly Twitter). It thus implied that the offensive cease and accept the high fire.
The last batch of Iranian missiles, at least four dead in Israel, according to emergency services. The offensive took place hurrying the entry into force of the truce announced by Trump (six o’clock in the morning of Madrid). The Government of Benjamín Netanyahu has not officially spoken at the moment over whether it joins that cessation of hostilities.
In one of those last waves of projectiles, one of them has hit a building in the southern city of Beersheba. There, the Soroka Hospital, one of the most important in Israel, was already achieved last Thursday by another Iranian howbils. It is precisely in this center where the wounded of the bombing on Tuesday are being treated. Two of the fatal victims would have taken refuge in a security room that received the direct impact of the missile, according to local media.
Hours before, the head of the Iranian diplomacy had denied the agreement while adding that, if Israel ceased throughout Tuesday in their attacks, they would do the same. “Whenever the Israeli regime stopped its illegal aggression against the Iranian people (…) we have no intention of continuing our answers,” said Araghchi.
After six in the afternoon, Washington time, Trump said the cessation of hostilities. Iranian television confirmed that extreme, and one of its presenters sold it, according to the American newspaper , as a triumph “Enemy Tax” after Monday’s attack on an American military base in Qatar.
The truth is that the explosions in both countries continued to be heard in the following hours to published their message giving a solution to the crisis. Not only that: Iran launched two missile waves in the early hours of Tuesday.
“Congratulations to all!” Trump had written in Truth. “Israel and Iran have agreed that there will be a high to total fire.” The US president said that this would be effective at about midnight from Washington (6:00 in peninsular Spain). Trump then set a somewhat confusing roadmap in his message. “Officially, I will start the stop on fire,” and, at 12 noon, “will be Israel’s turn.” “[Cuando hayan pasado esas] In a later message, he said: “Israel and Iran came to me, almost simultaneously, and said: ‘Paz!’ Then I knew it was time.”
Reuters reported that Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, was essential when convincing Tehran to accept the US proposal of Alto El Fuego. He succeeded, according to a Catarí official, in a call with the Iranian authorities.
A White House official confirmed the “crucial” role of the prime minister in a talk with a group of reporters in Washington, who accepted that he did it from anonymity. He also explained that the American vice president, JD Vance, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff, sent from the White House for the Middle East, had collaborated in the task of agreeing to the parties.
Trump, meanwhile, liked the name he invented for the war escalation between Iran and Israel that has had the region in suspense. “Assuming that everything works as it should, that it will be, I congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, for their resistance, courage and intelligence to end what should be called ‘the 12 -day war”, which “could have lasted years and destroyed everything near the Middle East,” he wrote in Truth. “May God bless Israel, may God bless Iran, that God bless the Middle East, that God bless the United States of America and that God bless the world,”
The announcement arrives two days after the United States launched a series of bombing on the Iranian nuclear bases of Fordow, Natanz and Ishafán. Trump celebrated that attack as a “spectacular success”, and gave “total and completely destroyed” those three uranium enrichment facilities, although the next day the decision to bomb put an end to more than four decades of containment of Washington in their relations with Tehran.
A shy retaliation
Iran responded on Monday with a shy retaliation: the launch of missiles against the American base of Al Udeid, the largest in Washington in the Middle East. It is on the outskirts of the capital of Qatar, Doha. The attack did not cause victims and 13 of the 14 projectiles were intercepted before their impact, Trump counted in another Truth.
As he advanced The New York Times, His intentions with the catari authorities, as well as those of Washington, which gave that his intention was not to cause as much damage as possible, if not to leave unanswered the US provocation on Saturday night, early Tehran.
The president thanked Iran in another message that on Monday they will notify his imminent operation “announcement of victory.” “Iran has officially reacted to our destruction of its nuclear facilities with a very weak response, something we expected and that we have countered with great efficiency.” “Maybe they will now be able to move towards peace and harmony in the region, and I will encourage Israel to do the same,” he added. A few minutes later, he published a new Truth, who said in capital letters: “My congratulations to the world is time for peace.”
During the day, Israel had intensified its beating new goals.
The markets responded positively to Iran’s nuanced response, and they also did that the oil came down to 7% this Monday, while seeing the option that Tehran ordered the closure of the vital narrow of Ormuz, so that the regime had in its sleeve as a possible way of consummating its revenge.
