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U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” to be phased in over 24 hours.

The Israeli military declined to comment on Trump’s statement. Iranian state media had no word on what response Tehran had to the ceasefire.

Earlier Monday, Iran launched a missile attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of three key Iranian nuclear facilities. The U.S. said no casualties were reported.

US President Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire that is meant to take effect in 24 hours, a dramatic change in direction just hours after the Middle East crisis appeared to widen.

Earlier on Monday, Iran struck back against the United States by firing missiles at an American military base in Qatar, a development that built on weeks of rising tensions between arch-rivals Iran and Israel – and now, Israel’s key ally, the US.

Shortly after Trump’s ceasefire proposal, multiple blasts were heard near Tehran, according to several media reports. Meanwhile, Iran reportedly issued an evacuation warning for residents of Tel Aviv, and the Israeli military issued its own new evacuation warning directed at residents of two areas near Tehran.

Since June 13, Israel and Iran have exchanged waves of devastating and deadly strikes. Israel launched its aerial campaign asserting that Tehran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon. Iran, however, has vehemently denied these claims, maintaining that its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.

Follow live updates here as the world reacts to this critical and rapidly unfolding development.

Reporting by Bochen Han, Ziwen Zhao and Robert Delaney

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Iran has launched missile strikes on US bases in Iraq and Qatar after it vowed to retaliate against Washington for bombing its nuclear facilities on Sunday.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency announced that the operation called the “annunciation of victory” was launched on Monday evening following the US’s strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites the previous day.

The attack comes after the White House scrambled to say the president was “simply raising a question” after Donald Trump entertained the idea of a regime change in Tehran following his claim he had taken a nuclear bomb “right out of Iran’s hands”.

Meanwhile, Israel also struck Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility as it launched an offensive targeting Iranian military and regime centres, including the notorious Evin prison.

Russian president Vladimir Putin condemned the attacks during a meeting with Iran’s foreign minister in Moscow on Monday, saying: “The absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran has no basis and no justification.”

Attacks likely to continue overnight even as ceasefire seemingly agreed

While Donald Trump does appear to have secured a ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel, the conflict may not be over just yet.

That’s because Trump has presented a complicated picture of the deal in his social media post, in which he announced the pathway to an “official end” to the war.

The way he worded it suggests there are still a couple of caveats.

Let’s break down this key part of his post, as he worded it:

It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World.

He seems to be suggesting Israel and Iran would have some time to complete any missions under way, at which point the ceasefire will begin in a staged process.

This isn’t totally clear but, based on this wording, there may be points at which the ceasefire applies only to one side and not the other.

And he makes the point that both sides will complete their missions.

So we will, potentially, see more strikes in both countries over the coming hours.

This is picked up by our US correspondent Mark Stone, who said there are moments of high jeopardy in any ceasefire negotiations.

“And that could mean that the whole thing falls apart,” he said.

“So a really complicated message from Donald Trump, but the thrust of it appears to be… that both sides have agreed to this.

“As long as it can last – as long as there isn’t some huge moment either from one side or the other, which collapses everything – then this is a remarkable moment for diplomacy, and a remarkable moment for Donald Trump.”

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