US President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade on Tuesday morning, blasting both Israel and Iran for breaching a ceasefire deal he personally brokered and announced just hours earlier.
Speaking before his departure to a NATO summit in The Hague, Trump didn’t mince words, accusing both nations of escalating tensions instead of honouring their agreement to pause hostilities.
‘They’ve been fighting so long and so hard, they don’t even know what the f— they’re doing,’ Trump snapped during an exchange with ABC News’ Rachel Scott. The visibly irritated president was responding to questions about the shaky truce that had been brokered the previous night.
Trump claimed Iran was the first to cross the line but quickly added that Israel was no innocent party either.
‘Israel, right after we sealed the deal, dropped a boatload of bombs I’ve never seen before. It was the heaviest strike I’ve ever witnessed,’ he said. ‘I’m not happy with Israel. And I’m not happy with Iran either.’
The ceasefire plan, which Trump posted to his Truth Social platform on Monday evening, involved back-to-back 12-hour ceasefires: Iran would pause first, then Israel. The idea was to give each side time to complete active missions before calling off all military action. If both complied, the war would be officially over after 24 hours.
But within hours of the announcement, reports emerged of continued airstrikes and retaliatory missile launches. Trump’s anger was amplified after a private phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early Tuesday.
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A White House source said that the call was ‘exceptionally firm’, with Trump warning Netanyahu about the consequences of ignoring the agreement. ‘The Prime Minister understood the seriousness of the moment,’ the source said.
Neither government immediately commented on Trump’s explosive accusations.
The ceasefire had offered a sliver of hope after nearly two weeks of intense military exchanges between Israel and Iran, triggered by a series of strikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure and retaliatory missile launches by Tehran.
While Trump declared that both nations had agreed to pause, the optimism surrounding the truce evaporated quickly as violence flared.
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