Open hostilities between the Middle East archrivals began with Israeli strikes on June 13

FILE PHOTO: An armed member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stands next to an Iranian-made long-range surface-to-surface missile. © Getty Images / Morteza Nikoubazl

Both Israel and Iran claimed victory on Tuesday as a US-brokered ceasefire took effect, pausing nearly two weeks of unprecedented hostilities between the two Middle East archrivals.

US President Donald Trump announced the truce on Monday evening and urged both sides to respect it.

The conflict began on June 13, when Israel launched a series of strikes it said were aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran, which denies pursuing a military nuclear program, called the assault an act of war and responded with missile and drone attacks.

On Sunday, the US joined the fighting by striking three Iranian nuclear sites, including uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow. In retaliation, Iran fired missiles at the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar the following day. According to US officials, there were no casualties. Trump said that no Americans were harmed and that “hardly any damage was done” to the outpost.

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The conflict has jeopardized negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The indirect, Omani-mediated talks between Tehran and Washington – revived by President Trump earlier this year – were suspended indefinitely by Iran following the Israeli strikes.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 430 Iranians and injured more than 3,500 civilians so far, according to Iran’s Health Ministry. Israeli officials have reported 25 deaths and over 2,500 injuries.

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25 June 2025

13:39 GMT

The Iranian authorities have announced the gradual easing of internet restrictions, following the implementation of a ceasefire with Israel.

"The communication network is gradually returning to its previous state,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ cyber unit said in a statement, according to the local media.

It explained the need for the curbs by the fact that during the 12-day conflict, Israel had been waging a “widespread cyber war” with the aim of disrupting digital services and “abusing the network infrastructure to collect information and intensify the aggression.”

Iranian Communications Minister Sattar Hashemi also said in a post on X that “with the normalization of conditions, the state of communication access has returned to its previous conditions.”

FILE PHOTO: A rally in Tehran, celebrating the ceasefire between Iran and Israel. © Getty Images / Morteza Nikoubazl

 

12:39 GMT

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has told Al Jazeera that the country’s nuclear facilities have been “badly damaged” in the strikes by Israel and Iran.

”That is for sure because [they have] come under repeated attacks,” he said.

When asked to elaborate, Baghaei replied that he had “nothing to add on this issue because it is a matter of technical issue.”

The spokesman insisted that Tehran “has every right under the NPT [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]… to enjoy using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. And Iran is prepared to reserve that right under any circumstances.”

12:34 GMT

US President Donald Trump has warned that he will strike Iran again if it decides to restart its nuclear enrichment program.

Speaking to reporters at the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump replied to a question on whether the US might get involved by saying: “sure.”

He also drew parallels between the American attack on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend and the US dropping an atomic bomb on Japan during the Second World War in 1945.

"That hit ended the war. I do not want to use an example of Hiroshima, I do not want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war. This ended that, this ended that war,” Trump said.

Israel and Iran “would have been fighting right now” if the US had not attacked Tehran’s nuclear facilities, he insisted.

12:06 GMT

The Iranian parliament’s vote to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is “a direct consequence of the unprovoked attack on Iran... of the strikes on nuclear facilities, which are quite unprecedented,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

"The reputation of the IAEA has been seriously damaged in this situation,” Peskov adding, acknowledging that Moscow is concerned by the development.

11:19 GMT

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has said that it is “the Number One priority” for the UN nuclear watchdog to return to Iran and examine the damage done to its nuclear facilities by US strikes, Reuters has reported.

Grossi also revealed that he received a letter from Tehran on June 13, when the initial Israeli attack took place, saying that Iran would take “special measures” to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.

"They did not get into details as to what that meant but clearly that was the implicit meaning of that. We can imagine this material is there,” he said, suggesting at least some of Iran’s enriched uranium survived the bombardment.

Earlier in the day, the Iranian parliament passed a bill calling for the suspension of Tehran’s cooperation with the IAEA. It now needs to be approved by Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council.

10:41 GMT

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Israel sent agents into Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after the American strike this weekend, who confirmed that the underground facility has been destroyed.

"You know they have guys that go in there after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration,” Trump told journalists at the NATO summit in The Hague.

"Israel is doing a report on it now, I understand, and I was told that they said it was total obliteration,” he added.

Kan public broadcaster reported later that Israeli officials told it that they were unaware of any operations by Israeli spy agencies inside Fordow after the US attack.

 

 

09:46 GMT

A total of 221 members of the Iranian parliament voted in favor of the bill calling for the suspension of Tehran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There were no votes against the proposal and just a single abstention, Mehr news agency has reported.

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The legislation now needs to be approved by Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council.

09:32 GMT

The American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were a “tremendous victory for everybody, even for Iran,” US President Donald Trump has claimed without elaborating.

Speaking at the NATO summit at the Hague, Trump expressed confidence that Tehran will not have the ability to enrich uranium after attacks by Israel and the US.

"The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover… They are not going to have a bomb and they are not going to enrich,” he insisted.

The Iranians “have got oil and they are very smart people and they can come back,” the US president said, adding that he believes that Washington “will end up having somewhat of a relationship” with Tehran eventually.

09:07 GMT

IDF spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin has said it is still “too early” to speak about the exact damage done by Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.

"We met all the objectives of the operation as defined for us, even better than we thought. But it is still too early to determine, we are investigating the results of the strikes on the different sections of the nuclear program,” Defrin said during a press conference.

"The assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can say we set it back by years,” he claimed.
 

Satellite imagery of the aftermath of the strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site. © Getty Images / Maxar Technologies

 

07:56 GMT

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Politico that Iran is “much further away from a nuclear weapon” after the US strikes on its nuclear facilities.

"That is the most important thing to understand — significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we are just learning more about it,” he said.

Rubio denied a CNN report claiming that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had assessed that the US attacks were only able to set Tehran’s nuclear program back by a matter of months.

“That story is a false story, and it is one that really should not be reported because it does not accurately reflect what is happening,” he insisted.

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