President Trump announced early Tuesday that the cease-fire between Iran and Israel was back on, just moments after launching a blistering attack on both for breaking it, saying both nations “don’t know what the f–k they’re doing.”
“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran,” he wrote on Truth Social just before 7:30 a.m.
“Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!” he said, with his now-trademark sign-off: “Thank you for your attention to this matter! “
His Truth post came just moments after the president raged at both nations as he left Joint Base Andrews for a NATO summit.
“I think they both violated it,” Trump said of Israel’s promise to resume attacks after accusing Iran of a “blatant violation” by firing more missiles.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing, do you understand?”
He made clear he was “not happy with Israel” and had to “get Israel to calm down now.”
“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and dropped a boatload of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen, I’m not happy with Israel,” Trump said.
“OK, when I say now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So, I’m not happy with him. I’m not happy with Iran either,” the president added.
Trump said he was “unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot perhaps by mistake, but didn’t land,” referring to Israeli allegations — denied by Tehran — that Iran fired missiles toward Israel after the cease-fire went into effect on Tuesday.
He also lashed out at CNN and MSNBC for “hurting” the pilots of the B-2 bombers that attacked Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend.
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“I think the reason we’re here is because those pilots, those B-2 pilots, did an unbelievable job, and you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they’re trying to say, ‘Well, I agree that it was destroyed but maybe not that destroyed,’” Trump said, referring to speculation that the three nuclear sites were not fully out of action.
“You know what they’re doing? They’re really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line. CNN is scum and some is MSNBC. And frankly, the networks aren’t much better, it’s all fake news,” he said.
He added that the pilots had “obliterated” their targets during Saturday night’s surprise raid.
An emergency meeting of Gulf Arab foreign ministers is expected in Qatar today to discuss Iran’s attack on a US air base in the country, according to the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman.
“We urge the US and Iranians to return immediately to the negotiating table for nuclear negotiations to reach a diplomatic solution,” he told a news conference Tuesday, adding that the emir of Qatar had spoken to both Trump and Iran’s president since the attack.
Iran’s president “expressed his regret that the incident was in Qatar,” Mohammed said, adding “we hope for this issue to be contained as soon as possible and for this chapter to be behind us.”
Last night, a wave of drones targeted several military sites in Iraq, damaging two bases.
“Significant damage” was caused to the radar systems at both bases, a spokesman for Iraq’s prime minister, Sabah al-Numan, said in a statement.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were branded “cowardly and treacherous” by Iraqi authorities, but one of the bases struck, in Taji just north of Baghdad, was a frequent target of rocket attacks from Iranian-linked Iraqi militias before US-led coalition forces withdrew from the site in 2020.
Iran’s military denied firing missiles after the cease-fire went into effect, according to Iranian state news outlets.
