Uncertainty hangs over the status of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran
(NPR) Israel and Iran said they agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, following President Trump's announcement that the warring countries had agreed to stop fighting.
But the future of such a ceasefire came under immediate question, as reports persisted Tuesday morning of further airstrikes in Israel. Soon after those reports, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced he had ordered the Israeli military to "respond forcefully" to what he labeled Iranian airstrikes. Iran denied firing a missile in violation of the ceasefire, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.
Iran's state media reported its agreement to the ceasefire earlier Tuesday, and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office has followed with a statement that it also agreed.
The tenuous ceasefire comes more than a week and a half after Israel launched its attack on Iran, leading to deadly exchanges of missile and drone barrages between them and threatening to draw the Middle East — and the United States — into wider war. It comes a few days after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5443201/israel-iran-ceasefire-trump
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