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resident Donald Trump announced what he called “a Complete and Total” ceasefire between Israel and Iran in a post on social media Monday evening, which he hopes will become permanent. The ceasefire is set to start in approximately six hours, the president said.
“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,” the president wrote on social media.
The ceasefire will be phased in during the next 24 hours, according to the president’s post.
“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. During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL,” the president wrote.
In an interview on Fox News that began moments after the president’s announcement, Vice President JD Vance praised Trump for getting the deal “across the finish line.”
“We were actually working on that just as I left the White House to come over here. So that’s good news, that the president was able to get that across the finish line,” Vance said.
Vance also said that he read a draft of Trump’s post “two minutes before we went on the air” and that it was “a little bit different from what the president had showed me a couple of hours ago. But again, I knew that he was working the phones as I was on the way over here.”
“Iran is incapable of building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they have, because we destroyed it,” Vance added.
GlobalBulletin24 has reached out to the White House for additional information on the ceasefire. Neither Iran nor Israel has made any comments about a pending ceasefire.
This post has been updated with more details from Trump’s social media post and JD Vance’s comments.
