Israel agrees to Trump’s proposal for ceasefire with Iran

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By Maziar Motamedi, Stephen Quillen and Rory Sullivan

    Israel has agreed to US President Donald Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, after Trump said the truce is now in effect and urged both sides not to violate it.

    The announcements came after Iran launched several volleys of missiles at Israel, killing at least four people in the southern city of Beersheba.

    Earlier, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said there’s no agreement on a ceasefire with Israel, but that Tehran will halt attacks if Israel stops its “illegal aggression” by 4am local time (00:30 GMT).

    Iran also fired a salvo of missiles at a military base in Qatar that houses American troops on Monday evening, in retaliation for the US’s attacks on its nuclear sites a day earlier.

    Iran says that more than 400 people, including 13 children, have been killed and at least 3,056 others wounded since Israel launched its attack on June 13. In Israel, at least 24 people have been killed in Iranian strikes.

    Israel’s defence minister orders ‘intense strikes’ on Tehran

    Israel Katz has instructed the Israeli military to “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran,” according to media reports.

    This comes shortly after the Israeli military said it was now safe to exit shelters.

    The Times of Israel said Iran fired two ballistic missiles and that both were intercepted.

    Israel’s Smotrich says ‘Tehran will tremble’

    Far-right Israeli Finance Minister has issued an ominous warning after Israel’s military reported a missile attack from Iran.

    Smotrich posted a short message in Hebrew on X: “Tehran will tremble”.

    Iran likely to exit NPT in coming weeks

    More from Foad Izadi, the professor at the University of Tehran.

    He told Al Jazeera that Iran has been cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) because it is a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but this collaboration has not benefitted Tehran.

    So, Iran is likely to use Article 10 of the treaty, which allows countries to leave it, “in the coming days and weeks”, he said. “You don’t have to be a member of that treaty, there are many countries that are not a member. Israel, for example, is not a member,” Izadi noted.

    “And Iran doesn’t have to be there, given the fact that Iranian nuclear sites that were under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, that were under the monitoring of International Atomic Energy Agency, were attacked, which is against international law,” he said.

    “You’re not supposed to attack these sites, especially the sites that are being monitored all the time. So being a member of NPT has not benefitted Iran. And the majority of parliament wants to leave that treaty. I think that issue will be debated in Iran in the next few days,” he added.

    Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

    We saw the warning from the Israeli Home Front Command about incoming missiles detected from Iran. The area covered was in northern Israel, so Haifa and the surrounding area.

    There is still a lack of clarity as to how many missiles were launched and why we didn’t hear any sirens here in Amman, as has been the case in previous instances.

    While the Israeli army statement says the missiles came from Iran, we haven’t seen any statement from Iran itself, and we don’t know if any or all of the missiles have been intercepted.

    If it is confirmed these missiles did come from Iran, we might see Israeli retaliation in those remaining hours of that window [before Israel’s side of the ceasefire comes into effect].

    This is a reminder of how tenuous and precarious all of this is.

    Iran reports casualties in Israel’s strike on Evin Prison

    The spokesperson of the Iranian judiciary has announced that Israel’s strike on Tehran’s Evin Prison on Monday resulted in deaths and injuries among its staff and visitors, according to the Mizan news agency.

    Asghar Jahangir said the attack hit the administrative section of the prison complex, killing administrative and judicial staff as well as visiting relatives of some prisoners.

    Jahangir did not specify how many people were killed and injured. He said parts of the administrative building were destroyed.

    The prison in the northern district of the Iranian capital is notorious for holding political activists and has been denounced by human rights groups for abuses by Iranian officials.

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