Fragile Israel-Iran truce appears to hold after Trump’s fury at initial violations
by Julian Borger in Jerusalem, and Hugo Lowell and An from US news | The Guardian on (#6Y6HG)
US president at one point called Benjamin Netanyahu to order him to scale down an Israeli airstrike
The shaky truce between Israel and Iran appeared to be holding on Tuesday evening after an extraordinary day in which a furious Donald Trump at one point personally intervened by calling Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to scale down an Israeli airstrike.
In a televised address late on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister hailed a historic victory" claiming that Israel had thwarted Iran's nuclear project" but it remained unclear whether the deeply buried Fordow nuclear site had been destroyed.
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