Iran-Israel-U.S. developments - ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE ... color me surprised (24-Jun-2025) (update 4)
"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" -- Kevin Alfred Strom, All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us, Aug 14, 1993 (source)
NOTE: Internet access to certain Iranian websites, such as Press TV and the Tehran Times, is intermittent, thus i'm not able to post all relevant articles. Iran has limited bandwidth for security reasons. Israel is also taking aggressive action against any media or person publishing or sharing imagery of the well-deserved beating they're taking from Iran.
CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS: President Donald Trump said he is "not happy" that Israel fired more rockets at Iran, adding that he is also displeased with Iran. He said today that he believed both sides violated the ceasefire, adding on social media that the truce remains in effect.
IRAN RESPONSE: Trump announced the ceasefire hours after Iran launched a strike against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which stations thousands of U.S. troops, in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of three nuclear sites over the weekend.
NUCLEAR PROGRAM: The U.S. strikes set back Iran's nuclear program several months, sources said. The initial assessment would appear to contradict Trump and Netanyahu's claims that Iran's nuclear capabilities were "obliterated" by the U.S. attack.
DEATH TOLL RISES: In the hours before the ceasefire took effect, nine people were killed in Israeli strikes on the northern Iranian province of Gilan, Iranian state media reported, while five people were killed in Iranian strikes on the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, according to first responders.
HOW IT STARTED: The war began when Israel bombed Iran on June 13, saying it was trying to stop it from developing nuclear weapons, and Tehran retaliated.
Trump can keep smearing lipstick on his "most successful military strike in history," but repetition of that phrase does not make this pig look like Marilyn Monroe. If the military objective was to eliminate Iran's ability to enrich uranium and produce a nuclear weapon, the mission was an abject failure.
CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial assessment of the strikes by the US Defence Intelligence Agency was that the main components of Iran's nuclear programme were intact and likely only set back by months.
This flies in the face of Trump saying that the US air strikes "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear programme. The White House trumpeted its bombing of Iran's Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz enrichment complexes as a major military feat that surprised Iran.
Israeli military's chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, also said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes had set back Iran's nuclear programme "by years". But like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he suggested the conflict with Iran could continue and was "entering a new phase".
The leaked intelligence reports suggest much less damage was done.
TEHRAN - The Islamic Republic of Iran's multi-phase retaliatory campaign-Operation True Promise III-has emerged as a defining moment in the region's recent history.
In response to the Zionist regime's unprovoked aggression and the U.S.-backed strike on Iran's diplomatic and scientific institutions, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a meticulously calculated series of missile and drone strikes over twelve days.
These targeted assaults, now known to have reached 22 distinct operational waves, dismantled key Israeli military, intelligence, and technological infrastructure-leading to a pressured halt in hostilities.
Faced with unprecedented destruction, Israel has imposed tight censorship. Foreign journalists have been banned, satellite images are restricted, and social media platforms are under pressure to suppress content showing Israeli losses. What follows is a comprehensive and categorized breakdown of the most critical targets Iran hit:
Iran and Israel appear to have entered into a ceasefire agreement, after Trump called Netanyahu directly following his latest rant on social media. But how long will it last, when Trump has already proven to Iran that he can't be trusted?
Iran-based Geopolitical Analyst Ehsan Safarnejad said that when it comes to Iran's decision to end its retaliatory attacks against the U.S. and Israel: "I don't think it is a bad decision to go for the ceasefire. I think that it is a moronic one."
This war brought the region to the edge of a full-scale conflict, especially after American forces directly joined the fight and faced retaliatory strikes from Iran. Regional leaders watched with anxiety, fearing that the flames ignited by Trump would engulf them as well. For now, it seems the region might be safe. However, given the well-documented history of Israel and Washington breaking their word and even violating official ceasefire agreements, the threat of renewed conflict remains a very real possibility for every country in West Asia.
Meanwhile, Western media outlets have been working overtime to paint Iran as defeated, censor the grim reality unfolding in Israel, and conveniently ignore the elephant in the room: Israel and the U.S. not only failed to achieve their objectives, but faced unexpected and unprecedented consequences.
Below, we examine some key aspects of this conflict.
Iran's missiles caused many Israelis to feel existential fear for the first time. Even if the ceasefire holds, their shattered sense of immunity will linger.
Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas introduced a resolution on Tuesday to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump over the strikes on Iran without consulting lawmakers.
The Israeli military's chief of staff Eyal Zamir said the military was at "the conclusion of a significant chapter but the campaign against Iran is not over".
Zamir said that the military's focus was on returning to Gaza to bring back the captives and to "dismantle Hamas's rule".
POTUS hailed the "spectacular" victory of B-2s flying from the US to West Asia to release MOPs ("Massive Ordnance Penetrators) over Fordow in the middle of the night of June 22 (significantly, the same date of the start of Operation Barbarossa in 1941).
Trump 2.0 functionaries gloated that the Iranian nuclear program was now gone.
That's the reality show.
Now for reality. Mannan Raisi, a member of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) from the holy city of Qom, summed it all up: "Contrary to the statements of the lying US President, the nuclear facilities at Fordow were not seriously damaged. Only the above-ground structures, which can be restored, were destroyed. In addition, everything that could pose a danger to the population was evacuated in advance. There are no reports of any nuclear emissions. Trump's false claims about the 'destruction of Fordow' are refuted by the fact that the attacks were so superficial that there were not even any fatalities at the facility."
What really matters is that the Empire of Chaos, in a single - spectacularly criminal - raid, bunker-busted the UN charter (again); international law (again); the NPT (perhaps for good); the US constitution; the "international community"; and Trump's own MAGA base.
The Global South is now doing the math - and drawing the necessary conclusions."Peace through strength" POTUS now owns two wars; a genocide; and an unprovoked attack by a nuclear superpower on behalf of a nuclear power against a non-nuclear power.
The IRGC's response was swift: the real war starts now. The Zionist axis will pay - in spades. It will not be a full-scale war against the Empire: that's supremely un-strategic. What will develop is multi-layered death by a thousand cuts.
A spokesman for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters in Iran said that the aggressive Zionist entity launched three attacks targeting Iranian territory until 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
The spokesman stated that the Iranian Armed Forces had previously announced that they would not leave any aggression unanswered, stressing that this entity will pay a heavy price for this aggression.
▪️ After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to decide on strikes on Iran that took place hours later, US President Trump is claiming a ceasefire was agreed to;
▪️ Iran would need to be beyond naive to accept or trust any word or action by the US - the US has not spent decades trying to topple Iran amid its regional murder spree to suddenly abandon it - its ENTIRE global aspirations hinge on it - it has used Israel as a conduit to launder its war crimes & provocations through & will continue to;
▪️ To effect regime change, the US would benefit most by luring Iranian leaders out of cover & striking them, provoking retaliations & further war;
▪️ Iran requires not a "Libya model," but a "North Korea model" or else this process will repeat itself until it concludes in Washington and Wall Street's favor;
▪️ The same "experts" who failed to see this war coming in the first place are now citing 5D chess strategies to explain how the Trump administration somehow averted a war entirely of its (and the establishment it serves) own creation and design to begin with;
▪️ The US will only stop when (1) people stop falling for this through excessive delusion, and (2) the rest of the world unites to force the US to stop;
▪️ If a genuine ceasefire is reached, it will likely have been the work of Russia and China quietly forcing the US to, through private but sufficient threats coupled with a graceful public exit ramp - though the chances of the US honoring it hover around 0%;
It seems a ceasefire has been achieved in what US President Donald Trump is now calling the "Twelve-Day War" between Israel and Iran. However, the key question is what motivated the parties involved to accept it?
For the United States, the calculation is fairly straightforward. Washington viewed the war launched by Israel primarily as an instrument to improve its negotiating position vis-a-vis Tehran.
If Israel succeeded, Iran would be compelled to comprehensively dismantle its nuclear programme, renounce its right to enrich uranium on its own territory as guaranteed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), terminate its ballistic missile programme, and sever links with armed movements comprising the "axis of resistance" in a subsequent agreement dictated by Washington.
Washington's objectives were further demonstrated by its bombing of Iran's three nuclear installations over the weekend accompanied by threats of a more widespread campaign if Tehran retaliated. While Trump at one point identified regime change in Tehran as a desirable outcome, he never committed to it, nor instructed the US military to pursue this goal.
As expected, Trump immediately proclaimed the complete obliteration of the three nuclear sites targeted by the US air force and boasted that the Iranian nuclear programme had been definitively destroyed and no longer existed. A boast better known as proclaiming victory and going home.
Israel's military actions against Iran have significantly destabilized the Middle East, driven by concerns over Iran's nuclear capabilities. These events, rooted in historical tensions, are irreversible and have reshaped regional dynamics. A key document that served as a pretext for Israel's aggression was a resolution adopted by the Board of Governors (BoG) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This resolution was based on a report by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, who later attempted to moderate its implications in an interview with Christiane Amanpour shortly after the onset of hostilities.
Since assuming his role, Grossi has been tasked with implementing the IAEA's statute to ensure nuclear non-proliferation. However, his reports have often been ambiguous, raising doubts about Iran's nuclear program that could be interpreted in multiple ways. Critics argue that these reports, if deliberately misleading, may have contributed to the escalation of tensions leading to war, raising questions about Grossi's accountability, including the possibility that he may be dismissed or stand trial.
The Iranian Mehr News Agency quoted the IRGC's deputy public relations officer in Hamadan Province on Tuesday as saying, "The identities of six traitors who were seeking to carry out Mossad's objectives were identified and arrested in the cities of Razan, Nahavand, and Hamadan."
He added, "Through their targeted cyber activity and in contact with other agents, these unscrupulous mercenaries attempted to incite public unrest and distort and destroy the image of the Iranian regime.
12bytes: Oh c'mon now Iran, no need for the dramatic flare. This is just Zionist Jews doing what Zionist Jews have done since roughly forever.
Iran's General Intelligence Directorate in Hormozgan Province, southeastern Iran, announced last night the seizure of a shipment containing 402 small drones and 2,224 professional radios in the cities of Parsian and Qeshm.
On Tuesday, the Zionist enemy issued new "evacuation orders" to citizens in areas of Jabalia al-Balad, northern Gaza Strip.
According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), local sources reported that the enemy issued "evacuation orders" to citizens in Jabalia al-Balad, the al-Nahda, al-Rawda, and northern al-Tuffah neighborhoods in Blocks 1814, 1817, 1803, 1805, 1800, and 1797, demanding that they immediately evacuate their homes and tents and head to the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis.
Citizens in the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee more than once in search of a safe place to protect them from the enemy's massacres.
However, the enemy has targeted every place in the Gaza Strip with bombardment, including hospitals, schools, and United Nations facilities that have been converted into shelters for the displaced.
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) chief commander, Major General Mohammad Pakpour, has warned the United States that any renewed aggression against Iran would prompt the Islamic Republic to teach Washington a "historic lesson."
Major General Pakpour made the remarks in a message issued early Tuesday after the Iranian armed forces launched a missile barrage against the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar that serves as the forward headquarters for US Central Command (CENTCOM).
"President Trump must not be allowed to start a war with Iran or any other country without congressional approval," the representatives said in their statement, adding that Trump ordered the strikes "without any meaningful consultation or authorization from Congress."
12bytes: This is from last night, but i wanted to add it here (emphasis mine).
My hopes that Donald Trump would finally act like a responsible adult are dashed. He's a dangerous buffoon. While the team around him are working frantically to maintain the fiction that Trump has a vision and is calling the shots on the foreign policy front, he is careening around the globe like an out-of-control cue ball on a billiards table. It started a week ago... first, he claimed to know everything about the timing of the Israeli decapitation attack, and then, within 48 hours, denied knowing anything. He insists he wants peace but did nothing to stop Israel from launching an unprovoked attack on Iran on the eve of negotiations in Oman between the US and Iran.
Now comes the Sunday morning bombings of Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. The White House insists that all were obliterated and that Iran's nuclear program waswiped out. Only one teeny, tiny problem... none of the satellite imagery supports that claim.
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Then, today in Washington, DC around 6 pm, Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
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While Trump is desperately trying to take credit for these developments, the ceasefire happened in spite of him, not because of his actions. I suspect that Russia, with an assist from China, made this happen. The real story is that Israel caved.
A narcissistic US President thinking he runs the world while Iran and the Resistance Axis are proving him wrong time and time again.
Ceasefires are never honoured by Israel or the US. See Lebanon, Palestine, violations of demarcation zone in Syria etc. Israel is a consumer more than a producer of weapons. Iran is a producer more than a consumer. Ceasefires are an opportunity for Israel to replenish stocks with US allied help. The war is far from over.
Iran launched six missile barrages in quick succession at Israel on June 24 morning, just a few hours before a ceasefire announced by United States President Donald Trump came into effect.
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Earlier in the morning, Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a "complete and total ceasefire." The deal came after Iran carried out a limited missile attack at a key U.S. base in Qatar a day earlier, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites. Washington was warned by Iran in advance. No casualties or damage was reported.
Israeli political figures have responded sharply and at times inconsistently to the ceasefire agreement with Iran, reflecting deep divides within the country's leadership and public discourse.
Israel's minister for military affairs, Israel Katz, says he has ordered "intense strikes" against Iran, immediately after the cessation of aggression after 12 days.
The spokesperson for Iran's highest operational command unit says the Israeli regime launched three waves of attacks on Iranian soil until 9:00 a.m. despite claims of halting its aggression.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that both Israel and Iran had violated the ceasefire he announced just hours earlier, adding he was unhappy with both sides but particularly disappointed with Israel.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - While the Supreme National Security Council of Iran said that the Israeli enemy has been forced to agree on a unilateral cessation of war on Iran, the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces denied that a fresh missile strike has been launched at the occupied territories.
US President Donald Trump criticised Israel on Tuesday, saying he was "not happy" with its actions following the ceasefire announcement.
Speaking to reporters before leaving for the Nato summit in The Hague, Trump said: "There was one rocket that I guess was fired overboard after the time limit and now Israel is going out [to strike Iran] because of one rocket that didn't land anywhere. These guys [have] got to calm down."
He added he didn't like "plenty of things" he saw yesterday.
Referring to the ceasefire he declared earlier, Trump said: "I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't have to unload."
He added: "Israel, as soon as we made a deal, they came out and dropped the biggest load of bombs we've ever seen... I'm not happy with Israel."
The president finished saying: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."
Yemeni officials say more than 82,000 volunteers have completed a military training course, qualifying them to take part in battles against the US-backed Israeli regime, which has been waging wars against countries across West Asia.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said on Tuesday that Doha was working to restart Gaza ceasefire talks in the coming days and cautioned Israel against using its truce with Iran as a pretext to intensify attacks on the besieged enclave.
In a brief statement, the battalion explained: "Our fighters in the Rummana Battalion were able to detonate a number of highly explosive KJ37 land-based explosive devices, prepared in advance, targeting a military patrol during its raid into the town, achieving confirmed hits on enemy vehicles."
This comes in the context of the Palestinian factions' response to the genocidal crime committed by the Zionist enemy in the Gaza Strip, with American support, since October 7, 2023. This crime includes killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli Prisoners' Families Committee said that the ceasefire agreement with Iran must also include the Gaza Strip.
In a statement on Tuesday, the families called on the Netanyahu government to engage in swift talks leading to the return of all prisoners and an end to the war in Gaza.
They added, "Whoever can achieve a ceasefire with Iran can also end the war in Gaza."
The statement continued, "After 12 days and nights in which Israelis were unable to sleep because of Iran, they can finally return to being unable to sleep because of the kidnapped. The 12-day operation is over, and now it is time to end the 627-day war." The families added, "It is unimaginable that Israel would return to the quagmire of Gaza after an operation in Iran." They considered that ending the operation in Iran without exploiting it to recover all Israeli prisoners "would be a grave political failure."
Iran's health ministry says at least 44 women and 13 children have been killed during Israel's military aggression against Iran, carried out with US-supplied weapons.
Iranian armed forces fired almost a dozen missiles towards different targets in the occupied territories as part of retaliatory strikes just before the regime halted its aggression, after overnight Israeli aggression against Iran.
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12bytes: You'll notice that the U.S. is staying out of the Red Sea. Those Houthi's too tough for the Donald?
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel - an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules - to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran, despite his agency's own conclusion that Iran had no nuclear weapons program.
The recent revelation that Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Sadati-Armaki was killed along with his entire family - his wife, two daughters, and son - in an Israeli airstrike should stop even hardened strategists in their tracks. This wasn't just a precision strike. It was an execution of a household.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said arrangements have been made to prevent any disruption to the country's nuclear activities.
In comments on Tuesday, Mohammad Eslami condemned the Israeli and American military attacks on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities.
He said the AEOI has taken all necessary measures and is assessing damages in sites that have been attacked.
Iran had made a series of arrangements in advance to restore the nuclear activities, Eslami stated, highlighting plans that have been devised to prevent any hiatus in the process of production and services in the nuclear industry.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Israeli occupation forces massacred dozens of Palestinians awaiting food aid in Gaza on Tuesday, intensifying what rights groups call a deliberate campaign of collective punishment.
Israeli forces and unmanned drones opened fire on aid seekers at distribution centers across Gaza, murdering scores of civilians and injuring hundreds.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed at least 50 martyrs near aid points and 21 more slain elsewhere in the besieged enclave.
One of the deadliest incidents occurred on Salah al-Din Street south of Wadi Gaza, where 25 civilians were killed and over 140 wounded-62 critically.
These attacks occurred at so-called "humanitarian" sites set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a front project engineered by the Israeli regime and supported by the US
Hospitals including al-Awda, al-Shifa, and the Nasser Medical Complex were overwhelmed as they received wave after wave of blood-soaked bodies.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education stated that 16,802 students have been killed and 26,638 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, 2023.
The British government will ask lawmakers to ban a pro-Palestinian activist group as a terrorist organization, following an incident in which its members breached a military air base and sprayed paint into a warplane's engine.
The Ministry of Education says Israel's war has severely impacted Gaza's education sector, leaving hundreds of thousands of students without access to schooling.
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At the recent Bilderberg meeting in Stockholm, the war profiteers gathered in their masses (just like witches at black masses) to invoke their AI-powered war machine. The trigger went off on Friday the 13th with Israel's "surprise attack" on Iran to the delight of the plotters from the inner circle. Their skillfully coordinated plan would now quickly come into motion.
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The profits of their family business are soaring with the help of the aerospace and defence company SAAB, which is developing "new technology to meet customers' changing needs," and the telecommunications company Ericsson, which is "transforming the future of defence digitalisation."
Their political puppets faithfully carry out their orders. Both Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader and former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson participated in the meeting, illustrating the corruption and revolving doors between financial elites and (s)elected politicians.
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