Trump announces Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire

President Trump announced on Monday that Israel and Iran agree on a complete and total “ceasefire, a decision which, according to him, would end a conflict of more than a week between the two countries.

The ceasefire will start in about six hours, and after 12 hours, the “war will be considered, finished,” wrote Mr. Trump Social truthindicating that the ceasefire would start at midnight and.

“Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire and, at the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire and, at the 24th hour, an official end of the 12-day war will be hailed by the world,” said the president.

There has not yet been an official word from Israel or Iran on a ceasefire.

The terms of the apparent ceasefire are not clear. CBS News contacted the White House for more information.

The conflict between Israel and Iran began on June 13 with Israel Launch of air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military targets. The strikes – who killed several senior Iranian military officials – provoked Iranian counterattacks in Israel.

At least 950 people were killed and 3,450 injured in the strikes of Israel in Iran, including a mixture of military personnel and civilians, human rights activists said to the group Associated Press. Iran’s attacks have killed at least 24 people in Israel, according to Israeli officials.

The United States has taken military measures against Iran during the weekend, Stronging three sites which are considered the key to Iran nuclear program. This decision sparked fears of a broader war, but Iran’s response on Monday was quite limited. Iran fired more than a dozen missiles in a American base in QatarMost of which have been intercepted, and no injury has been reported, said US and Qatari officials.

Iran called its “devastating and powerful” response, but Trump called it “very weak”. The president declared in another article on social networks that he wanted to “thank Iran for having given us a notice, which only allowed no life is lost”.

The Israel campaign was mainly intended for the Iranian nuclear program, as the storage of the country of uranium close to the quality of weapons has grown rapidly in recent months, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Israel has alleged Iran was secretly “running towards a nuclear bomb”. But earlier this year, US intelligence agencies assessed that Iran did not manufacture nuclear weapons, although “the pressure was probably built” for the Iranian supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to reautorize the country’s nuclear weapons program.

Mr. Trump said last week He believed that the intelligence community was “wrong” of Iran’s nuclear ambition, saying to journalists: “I think they were very close to having one”. Secretary of state Marco Rubio called the question “out of words” in a Interview Sunday On CBS News “Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan,” saying that Iranian officials “have everything they need to build the weapon”.

Iran has long insisted that its uranium enrichment program is peaceful.

For weeks, Trump asked for a broader agreement with Iran to limit his nuclear program, but even before Israel begins to conclude Iran, administration officials had become frustrated With what they considered Iran’s reluctance to negotiate, an American official told CBS News. Trump suggested that Iran should abandon all enrichment of uranium, but Iran rejected this request.

Mr. Trump said during the weekend The United States strikes had “erased” three Iranian nuclear sites, including two underground enrichment facilities of uranium, although Iran has minimized damage.

This is a story of rupture; It will be updated.

Margaret Brennan

contributed to this report.