(Jerusalem) Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu proclaimed a “historic victory” against Iran on Tuesday evening and its nuclear program, after the entry into force of a truce imposed by US President Donald Trump.
Iran, whose key nuclear installations were bombed on Sunday by the United States, also shouted “victory” and reaffirmed its “legitimate rights” to continue its atomic program for civil use, claiming to be ready to resume language with Washington.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu
“We have obtained a historic victory,” said Mr. Netanyahu in an address to the nation, a few hours after the implementation of a fragile cease-fire.
“We destroyed the Iranian nuclear project. And if someone in Iran tries to (the) rebuild, we will act with the same determination, with the same intensity, to make any attempt to fail, “promised the head of the Israeli government.
“Never atomic weapon”
“Iran will never have the atomic weapon,” said Netanyahu who has hammered the same message for years.
US President Donald Trump had previously said that the ceasefire he announced on Monday evening between Israel and Iran was “now in force.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised the ceasefire “obtained between Israel and Iran thanks to President Trump’s efforts” during an interview on Tuesday evening with the American president in The Hague, on the eve of the NATO summit.
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The Israeli army actually lifted the restrictions imposed on its population on Tuesday evening during the conflict, but warned, by the voice of the chief of staff, that “the campaign against Iran was not finished” and that a “new chapter” opened.
Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir also said that his army was going to be back on the Gaza Strip, where she has been fighting for Palestinian Hamas since October 2023.
“End of war”
Tehran boasted on his side for having forced his Israeli sworn enemy to “unilaterally cease” war.
Its president Massoud Pezeshkian announced in the evening “the end of the war […] imposed ”by Israel and committed to respecting the ceasefire provided that his opponent does the same.
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A member of the Iran National Guard in Tehran.
Israel had attacked Iran by the air on June 13, once again accusing Tehran of wanting to acquire the atomic weapon. The Islamic Republic, which has always denied and defended its right to civilian nuclear, retaliated for 12 days by multiplying the missile and drone shots in Israel.
Tuesday morning, the sirens once again sounded in northern Israel. Tehran denied having fired missiles, although an Israeli military source told AFP that two of these weapons had been intercepted.
After threatening to “ride with force”, Israel ensured assured that she had “retained” to strike Iran, after a phone call between MM. Netanyahu and Trump.
The American president had accused Iran and Israel on Tuesday morning of having violated the truce.
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People look at the apparent remains of a ballistic missile in northern Israel on June 24, 2025.
Donald Trump was then delighted that the two enemy countries for half a century accepted his “total” ceasefire offer to lead to the “official end” of the conflict.
In fact, Iran is “ready to solve disputes […] At the negotiating table ”with the United States, President Pezeshkian promised on Tuesday.
And, he hammered, if his country does not seek to acquire the atomic bomb, he will always “be worth his legitimate rights” to have a civil nuclear program.
“Everyone is tired”
Before the announcement of the Iran-Israel truce, four people, according to help, had been killed in Beersheva, southern Israel, by an Iranian missile shot which destroyed a building.
Tammy Shel, a resident of Tel Aviv, said putting all her hopes in a cease-fire. “I really hope. Everyone is tired. We just want to have a peaceful mind. For us, for the Iranians, for the Palestinians, for everyone in the region, “she told AFP.
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Men inspect the destruction of a house in the Arab-Israeli city of Tamra on June 24, 2025.
In northern Iran, a shot left 16 dead, according to the ISNA agency, there too before the start of the ceasefire.
A nuclear -related scientist was also killed by an Israeli strike, according to a state media.
In Iran, the war left at least 610 people dead and more than 4,700 injured, according to an official assessment which only lists civilian victims. Iranian shots on Israel left 28 people dead, according to the authorities.
Since June 13, Israel has bombed hundreds of Iranian military and nuclear sites, killing the highest officers in the country as well as nuclear scientists.
Donald Trump had called on the two belligerents on Monday evening to country to “move towards peace”, after Iranian fire on the American military base in Al-Udeid in Qatar, the most important in the Middle East, in retaliation to the American raids led on weekends on three Iranian nuclear sites.
He “thanked Iran” for having “warned” the United States “in time, which made it possible not to lose lives and not hurt anyone”.
“Calibrated” reprisals
For Ali Vaez, of the International Crisis Group reflection group, Iranian reprisals “were calibrated and announced so as not to lead to American victims, allowing a crisis out of the two parties”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) has considered it impossible at this stage to assess the damage inflicted on Iranian sites, from which it has requested access.
Experts believe that Iran may have evacuated nuclear equipment from affected sites and Tehran has always affirmed to have enriched uranium stocks.
However, the IAEA said it had not detected any index of a “systematic program” for the manufacture of an atomic bomb.
