{"id":154459,"date":"2025-06-24T00:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-says-israel-iran-agree-to-complete-and-total-ceasefire-live-updates-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:16:56","slug":"trump-says-israel-iran-agree-to-complete-and-total-ceasefire-live-updates-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-says-israel-iran-agree-to-complete-and-total-ceasefire-live-updates-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Israel, Iran agree to 'Complete and Total CEASEFIRE': Live updates – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> said Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “total ceasefire,” hours after the Iranian military retaliated for U.S. strikes on three of the country’s nuclear facilities<\/a> with a response Trump said was announced ahead of time.
“CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” Trump proclaimed in a social media post<\/a> around 6 p.m. ET, adding that the truce would take effect in about six hours after both parties completed military missions.
Trump said Iran would take the first step with a 12-hour cessation of hostilities, followed in kind by Israel. After that 24-hour stretch of peace, “an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World,” the president said.
The leader of Qatar helped persuade Iran to agree to the truce after Trump told him Israel would go along with it, Reuters reported, citing an official briefed on the negotiations whom it did not identify. The outlet also reported a senior\u00a0Iranian official said Tehran had approved the U.S. peace proposal.
Neither of the warring countries has confirmed the cease-fire, and it’s not clear whether they will go along with the deal. Shortly before Trump’s posting, Israel issued an evacuation warning for a densely populated district of Tehran, and Iran has also threatened new attacks.
Earlier in the day, Trump had posted a message thanking Iran for providing advance warning of its Monday attack, and he made a peace offering to end the brief but intense war.
He said Iran fired 14 missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar and 13 of them were intercepted, while the other one was deemed nonthreatening. Trump reported there were no American or Qatari casualties and very little damage from the attack.
Iran\u2019s military claimed it had carried out a \u201cdevastating and powerful\u201d missile assault on the Al Udeid U.S. military base in Doha, but Qatar said the missiles were intercepted. U.S. officials said the base had been emptied out, lending credence to the notion Iran was merely saving face<\/a> with the missile launch.
“They\u2019ve gotten it all out of their ‘system,’ and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE,” Trump said in his earlier post. “I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured. Perhaps Iran can now proceed to Peace and Harmony in the Region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.”
The latest developments come as Israel stepped up airstrikes on Iran on Monday, hitting several locations the Israeli defense minister described as “regime targets” in Tehran, including the notorious Evin Prison and the internal security headquarters of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Contributing: Francesca Chambers, Zac Anderson<\/em>
Developments:<\/strong>
\u220e\u00a0The State Department said it has evacuated approximately 250 U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and their immediate family members from Israel on seven flights since June 21.
\u220e Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0hosted Iran’s foreign minister in Moscow and told him there was no justification for the U.S. bombing of Iran, which he described as “unprovoked aggression,” according to the Kremlin<\/a>. Putin added that Moscow is making efforts to assist the Iranian people.
\u220e\u00a0Iranian official Ebrahim Zolfaqari warned that the U.S. should expect severe consequences. “Mr. Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it,” Zolfaqari said in English in a video shared Monday.
Vice President JD Vance<\/a> was about do a live, in-studio interview on Fox News when Trump posted the cease-fire message. Vance said the administration had been working on the truce when he left the White House. “So that’s good news that the president was able to get that across the finish line,” Vance said.
He said the U.S. must now talk to Iran and Israel and about what comes next, following days of strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites. “I think that is what the president is really trying to figure out here, is to build a long-term settlement,” Vance said.
Vance said Trump told his team the U.S. would now work to make sure Iran doesn’t rebuild its nuclear capability in the future.
As for the six hours that Trump referred to, Vance said the fighting may continue for a few hours. “And tomorrow really is a new day. The end of the 12-day war, the end of the Iranian nuclear program, and I really do believe, something big for peace in the Middle East,” he said.
\u2212 Francesca Chambers<\/em>
A U.S. defense official who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to USA TODAY that Al Udeid Air Base was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran. There were no reports of U.S. casualties, the official said.
Another U.S. official said on condition of anonymity that the base had been mostly evacuated, and that it appeared the Qatari military had fended off most missiles.
Majed Al Ansari, foreign affairs spokesman for Qatar, issued a statement strongly condemning the missile launch, calling it “a flagrant violation” of the country’s sovereignty. “We reassure that Qatar\u2019s air defenses successfully thwarted the attack,” the statement said.
The U.S. has remained on alert with its 40,000 troops<\/a> in the region two days after Trump ordered the bombing of Fordow, a uranium-enrichment facility deep inside a remote mountain in Iran, and facilities at Natanz and Isfahan. Trump convened his national security team Monday afternoon in the Situation Room.
Many world leaders<\/a> \u2212 including those from the UK, France and Germany \u2212 called for restraint and a return to diplomatic negotiations. The extent of the damage<\/a> to the Iran nuclear sites remains in question because so far there has been no independent assessment.
The U.S. Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq had activated its air defense system out of concern of a potential attack, military officials told Reuters.
Al Udeid is the sprawling hub of U.S. military air operations in the Middle East. There about 10,000 U.S. troops stationed there, on the outskirts of the capital of Doha.
Its air operations center has overseen fighters, bombers and drones that have conducted combat missions in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Dignitaries make stops there frequently, including Trump and secretaries of Defense.
Trump warned other countries Monday not to supply nuclear weapons to Iran in response to the U.S. bombing, after a former Russian president suggested the option.
\u201cThe \u2018N word\u2019 should not be treated so casually,\u201d Trump said in a social media post<\/a>, referring to nuclear weapons.Trump was alluding to a social media post by Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>, the former president of Russia, but questioned its accuracy. Medvedev\u2019s post suggested \u201ca number of countries are ready to directly support Iran with their own nuclear warheads.\u201d\u2212Bart Jansen<\/em>
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Monday he didn\u2019t think it was \u201can appropriate time\u201d for the House to vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution pushed by two representatives, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie and California Democrat Ro Khanna.\u00a0
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary,\u201d Johnson said, according to Punchbowl News<\/a>. \u201cFor 80 years, presidents of both parties have acted with the same Commander in Chief authority under Article 2.”
Johnson said President Joe Biden used the authority in three Middle East operations, and added: “President Obama went on an eight-month campaign bombing Libya to take down the regime there. I never heard a Democrat balk about any of that. And suddenly now they’re just up in arms. It’s all politics. This is not a time for politics.\u201d
His remarks will likely earn pushback from Massie and Khanna, who were looking to bring their measure<\/a> to the floor for a vote, seeking to forbid the U.S. from “unauthorized hostilities\u201d in Iran after Trump ordered airstrikes at three nuclear sites in Iran.\u00a0
Lawmakers across the aisle have alleged that<\/a> Trump\u2019s order violated the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution<\/a> of 1973, which requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of military action. Some of Trump\u2019s staunchest allies have split with him over Iran.\u00a0
\u2212 Sudiksha Kochi<\/em>
Stocks wavered but quickly moved back into positive ground after Iran said it attacked a U.S. military base Monday. The market wound up on a high note<\/a> upon news the assault caused no casualties or disruptions to oil supplies.
The blue-chip Dow closed up 0.89%, or 374.96 points, to 42,581.78; the broad S&P 500 added 0.96%, or 57.33 points, to 6025.17 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.94%, or 183.57 points, to 19630.98. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.34%.
U.S. oil prices initially rose on the news of explosions over Qatar but settled back to trade down about 7.94% to $67.98 per barrel. Qatar said it intercepted Iran’s missiles.
\u2212 Medora Lee<\/em>
The Israeli military released an urgent warning<\/a> to residents in Tehran urging them to stay away from “security institutions” as they plan to continue pounding the capital city with airstrikes.
“Dear citizens of Tehran, In the coming days, the Israeli army will continue its attacks against military targets in the Tehran region,” read the statement posed Monday on X. “To maintain your personal safety, we ask you to stay away from weapons production centers, military bases, and security institutions affiliated with the regime.”
Tehran is one of the largest cities in the Middle East and is home to an estimated 9.5 million people. On Monday, Israel launched several strikes on the city, hitting near Evin Prison and several command and security operations centers.
Oil prices initially rose on reports of explosions over Qatar but dropped again as analysts said oil supplies remained safe. Just after 1:30 p.m. ET, oil prices were down 4.97% at $70.17 per barrel.
Analysts\u2019 primary concern is if Iran retaliates by closing the Strait of Hormuz, the main artery that carries global oil supplies.
If transport through the Strait of Hormuz is significantly disrupted, oil prices could surge to $130-150 per barrel, said David Oxley, chief climate and commodities economist at Capital Economics.
\u2212 Medora Lee<\/em>
There are no U.S. forces at the military base in Syria that reportedly had come under mortar fire, a U.S. official said Monday.
The official, who could not confirm whether an attack had occurred at the base, was not authorized to speak publicly about U.S. troop movements in the region. The alleged attack at a base in western Syria was first reported by Mehr, a news agency affiliated with the Iranian government.
The Pentagon has been bracing for a counterattack after the U.S. airstrikes Saturday on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The Pentagon has sent an additional aircraft carrier strike group to the region and bolstered air defenses to protect troops in recent weeks following Israel\u2019s ongoing attacks on Iran.
Militia groups, funded and supplied by Iran, have regularly fired rockets, mortars and drones at bases with U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria. Those attacks typically do not cause casualties or major damage.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has been one of Trump\u2019s most loyal supporters, but she\u2019s not holding back in slamming his decision<\/a> to bomb Iran. In a second lengthy social media post since the bombing, Greene accused Trump of a \u201cbait and switch\u201d with his supporters.
Greene wrote in the Monday post that she campaigned with Trump on a \u201cMAGA agenda\u201d that included \u201cNO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE.\u201d Now, less than six months into Trump\u2019s second administration, Greene wrote \u201cwe are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war 3.\u201d
\u201cIt feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!\u201d Greene added.
Greene was among a vocal MAGA contingent warning against attacking Iran before Trump decided to go forward with the strike. Greene has remained outspoken, saying in an earlier social media post that \u201cI can also support President Trump<\/a> \u2026 while disagreeing on bombing Iran and getting involved in a hot war that Israel started.\u201d
\u2212 Sudiksha Kochi, Zac Anderson<\/em>
Trump called for oil prices not to increase after U.S. airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
\u201cEVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I\u2019M WATCHING! YOU\u2019RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON\u2019T DO IT!\u201d he wrote in a Truth Social post<\/a>.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t clear who he was referring to in the post.\u00a0
In a follow-up Truth Social post,<\/a> Trump urged the Department of Energy to \u201cDRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!\u00a0 And I mean NOW!!!\u201d
\u2212<\/em> Sudiksha Kochi and Savannah Kuchar<\/em>
When asked about Trump’s recent musings on regime change in Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday that the administration and the U.S. military posture has not changed from its stated goal of taking out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“The president was just simply raising a question that I think many people around the world are asking,” she said, adding that if Iran’s government “refuse(s) to engage in diplomacy moving forward, why shouldn\u2019t the Iranian people rise up against this brutal terrorist regime?\u201d
She also told Fox News that Trump \u201cbelieves the Iranian people can control their own destiny\u201d \u2014 including by toppling their country\u2019s theocratic regime.
Leavitt said Iran was an \u201cimminent threat\u201d\u00a0and that the U.S. strikes “took away Iran’s ability to create a nuclear bomb.”
“They no longer have the capability to build this nuclear weapon and threaten the world,” Leavitt said in an interview on ABC News.
Her statement comes amid questions around the success of the strikes to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites. While Trump and his administration remain adamant that the strikes caused “monumental damage<\/a>,” no independent assessment of the facilities has taken place.
The U.S. Embassy in Qatar issued an alert<\/a> on its website warning American citizens to “shelter in place until further notice.”
It’s unclear what exactly triggered the alert, though it comes amid high tensions in the region after the U.S. bombed several nuclear facilities in Iran. On Sunday, the State Department released an advisory<\/a> urging U.S. citizens worldwide to “exercise increased caution” as the conflict between Israel and Iran continued to escalate.
Qatar’s foreign ministry in a statement on Monday said recent advisories issued by embassies “do not necessarily reflect the existence of specific threats.” The statement added the the security situation in Qatar is “stable.”
Iran\u2019s parliament voted Sunday in support of closing the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a vital trade route that carries an estimated 20% of the world’s oil and gas.
The decision to close the strait ultimately belongs to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, which has yet to officially weigh in.\u00a0
Leavitt said the Iranian regime would be \u201cfoolish\u201d to close the strait when asked whether the Trump administration would release more oil to dampen potential price hikes.
\u201cI can assure you the administration is actively and closely monitoring the situation in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Leavitt told ABC News. \u201cThe Iranian regime would be foolish to make that decision.\u201d<\/strong>
\u2212<\/em> Savannah Kuchar and Bart Jansen<\/em>
Trump met with his national security team as tensions in the Middle East grew after he ordered a trio of strikes at Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday.
In a post on his social media platform<\/a>, Trump raised the prospect of regime change while officials in his administration said they were seeking to resume negotiations talks with Iran.
“It\u2019s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn\u2019t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” Trump wrote.
Following the latest round of Israeli missile strikes on Tehran, the Iranian judiciary\u2019s Mizan news agency said electricity was cut off in several city districts and that the situation at Evin Prison is “under control.”
The judiciary said on of the strikes in northern Tehran hit one of the main lines supplying the area, resulting in power outages.
The notorious Evin Prison was built in 1971 and has housed political prisoners, Westerners and journalists used as bargaining chips by Iran. It has previously been targeted by sanctions, and human rights groups have long condemned the treatment of prisoners there.
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said he expects that U.S. bombing on Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment site caused “very significant damage,” but he added that the extent of any damage remains unclear as the International Atomic Energy Agency has not been able to carry out an inspection.
“Given the explosive payload utilized and the extreme(ly) vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred,” Grossi said in a statement Monday to an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow that aggression against Iran was groundless.
Putin made the comments at the start of Kremlin talks and said Russia, which has condemned the U.S. strikes, was ready to help the Iranian people.
Iran and its hard-line\u00a0supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>\u00a0are almost certainly going to strike back in response to\u00a0historic U.S. military strikes<\/a>\u00a0on three of its suspected nuclear facilities.
But if history is any guide, that response could happen at any time \u2212 and anywhere, and in any form, former U.S. intelligence officials and diplomatic experts say.
\u201cMissiles, militias and acts of hostage-taking \u2013 that\u2019s their go-to\u201d range of options, the Biden administration coordinator for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, said on CNN June 21. \u201cI suspect Iran will have to do something.\u201d Read more here.<\/a>
\u2212Josh Meyer<\/em>
The U.S. used more than a dozen multimillion-dollar,\u00a030,000-pound “bunker busters”<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0bomb Iranian nuclear facilities<\/a>\u00a0in the strike, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, marking the weapon’s first operational use, according to the Pentagon.
U.S. bomber planes dropped 14 of the massive bombs on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said.
The bombs used in the strikes, called\u00a0Massive Ordnance Penetrators<\/a>, or MOPs, weigh 30,000 pounds each and cost millions to produce. MOPs, also known as the Guided Bomb Unit, or GBU-57, are\u00a0GPS-guided weapons designed<\/a>\u00a0to burrow deep into underground targets, such as fortified tunnels or bunkers. The bombs are about 20 feet long and span 6 feet at their widest point. Read more here.<\/a>
\u2212 Cybele Mayes-Osterman<\/em>
Some lawmakers, including hard-line conservatives and key progressives, are calling the U.S. strikes a breach of the Constitution,<\/a>.
“The President\u2019s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York,\u00a0posted on X<\/a>.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, responded to Trump’s social media assessment of the attack with\u00a0the statement<\/a>:\u00a0“This is not Constitutional.”
The\u00a0War Powers Resolution<\/a>\u00a0of 1973 requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of military action. The law also limits the deployment of armed forces beyond 90 days in the absence of a formal declaration of war.
\u2212 Savannah Kuchar<\/em>
Trump ordered the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, effectively joining a war that Israel started on June 13 when it began bombing Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure. Israel said it helped the U.S. coordinate and plan the strikes.
Trump said all three sites were “totally obliterated.” But an independent assessment has not yet been carried out. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u2212 the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog \u2212 released a statement saying that so far it had not detected an increase in “off-site radiation levels,” one of the feared consequences of the strikes.
Vice President\u00a0JD Vance<\/a>\u00a0insisted Sunday that the U.S. is not entering an open-ended conflict in the Middle East. \u201cWe\u2019re not at war with Iran. We\u2019re at war with Iran\u2019s nuclear program.\u201d Vance said on NBC.
Contributing: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n

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