- Israel: Don't drop those bombs. If you do, it's a serious violation. Bring your pilots home, now!

Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon. Shortly afterwards, a clearly irritated president met with the press outside the White House before leaving for the NATO summit in The Hague.

There he alleged that both Israel and Iran have already violated the ceasefire.

-  I am not happy with Israel. Not Iran either, but I am very unhappy with Israel, he said.

"They have no fucking clue what they're doing. You understand?" he added.

He also claimed that Iran's nuclear program has been destroyed and that they will never be able to rebuild it.

Watch the bizarre incident here:

According to Axios, Trump has spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him not to attack Iran.

Shortly afterwards, Trump writes on Truth Social that Israel should not attack Iran and that all their planes are on their way home.

Big disagreement

The ceasefire has largely been Trump's own project from the start. At midnight yesterday, he announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, which was to start at 6 am this morning.

-  The ceasefire has started. Please don't break it, he wrote on Truth Social an hour later.

Not long afterwards, the Israeli military (IDF) announced that they had identified missiles heading from Iran to Israel.

According to the Haaretz newspaper, residents of several cities in northern Israel were asked to evacuate.

"I instructed the military to respond forcefully to Iran's violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against targets in the heart of Tehran," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said.

Iranian authorities denied violating the ceasefire.

"The Iranian military does not trust what the enemies say and will have its finger on the trigger to respond to further aggression," Iranian security officials told Fars News, which is run by one of Iran's armed forces.

At 1:20 p.m., Reuters writes that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has confirmed that they launched 14 missiles at Israeli military targets a few minutes before the ceasefire began.

Half an hour later, the IDF reports that they have attacked an Iranian radar near Tehran, writes Reuters.

This happened last night.

The first reports of missiles from Iran towards Israel came just over three hours after the ceasefire began. But even before the ceasefire, it was a highly dramatic night:

• At midnight Norwegian time, Trump announced that Israel and Iran had reached a ceasefire. According to him, it will take effect at 6 a.m. Norwegian time.
• Both Israel and Iran have attacked each other throughout the night. At least four are reported to have been killed in Israel and at least 9 are reported to have been killed in Iran. 
• State television in Iran has confirmed the ceasefire. No government officials have commented on the matter.
• Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in the morning that Israel has agreed to the ceasefire.
• At half past nine, the Israeli military reports that they have detected missiles on their way from Iran to Israel.

The plan was for Iran to start with a twelve-hour ceasefire. Once the twelfth hour was over, Israel would observe a twelve-hour ceasefire, according to Donald Trump.

Benjamin Netanyahu said they had achieved their goal of eliminating Iran's nuclear threat and thanked Donald Trump for his help in this, Reuters reports. At the same time, he warned that Israel would respond strongly to violations of the agreement.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide commented on the ceasefire on Nyhetsmorgen on NRK Tuesday morning.

"I would be cautious about saying that the danger is over, as turbulent as the Middle East is. But I must say that things are looking a little brighter now than they were," he said.

Attack through the night

Over two hours after Trump announced the ceasefire, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that Iran had not agreed to a ceasefire.

"As of now, there is NO agreement on a ceasefire or cessation of military operations," Araghchi wrote.

However, the Foreign Minister announced that there was an opening for a ceasefire.

"However, if the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people by 4:00 AM Iranian time, we have no intention of continuing our retaliation after that," he wrote after 4:00 AM Iranian time.

Shortly afterwards, Araghchi issued a message indicating that Iran had stopped its attacks.

"The military operations of our powerful armed forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the last minute, at 4 o'clock. Together with the entire Iranian people, I thank our brave armed forces, who are ready to defend our beloved country to the last drop of blood, and who responded to any attack from the enemy until the last minute," the foreign minister wrote.

Shortly after 4 a.m. Norwegian time and until after 6 a.m. Norwegian time, Iranian attacks against Israel were nevertheless reported.

Killed nuclear scientist last night

At least nine people have been killed, 33 injured and four homes destroyed in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh in northern Iran last night. One of the dead is said to have been nuclear scientist  Mohammad Reza Seddiqi. This is reported by BBC on Tuesday morning.

Iranian media have reported that Israel was behind the attack, the channel writes.

On Tuesday night, Israel also warned residents of Tehran to evacuate several areas of the capital. Shortly afterwards, loud explosions were reported.

"There were a series of loud bangs," CNN's reporter in Tehran reported.

The attacks continued for several hours. At 2:30 AM, the New York Times described the attacks as intense.

A message in Persian on X asked people to stay away from two areas marked in red on a map of Tehran.

"Dear citizens, for your own safety and health, we ask you to immediately leave the areas indicated on the map and not approach them again for the next few hours. Your presence in these areas puts your life at risk," the IDF wrote.

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