WASHINGTON (Kashmir English): US President Donald Trump has announced a “complete and total” ceasefire between Israel and Iran with both the nations yet to confirm a ceasefire has been reached.
In a post on social media, Trump said the ceasefire will begin “in approximately six hours from now” after each country has “wound down” their military operations.
Trump’s announcement contains a periodic unravelling of hostilities but says that “upon the 24th hour” the war will officially end.
Israel and Iran are yet to confirm a ceasefire has been reached.
The world is yet to hear confirmation of the ceasefire, especially from Iran. Half an hour before US President Donald Trump’s announcement that a “complete and total” ceasefire had been a agreed between Israel and Iran, world media reported that a senior Iranian official had said that the country had not received any ceasefire proposal.
Words of the US and Israeli leaders are “a deception”: Iran
The unnamed official believed that the words of the US and Israeli leaders are “a deception” intended to justify continued attacks on Iran.
“At this very moment, the enemy is committing aggression against Iran, and Iran is on the verge of intensifying its retaliatory strikes, with no ear to listen to the lies of its enemies,” the official said.
President Trump’s ceasefire announcement continued by saying: “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries.” as he called the latest Israel-Iran conflict the “The 12 Day War”.
“This is a war that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will!” Trump said in the post.
