Fragile Israel-Iran truce appears to hold after Trump’s fury at initial violations

<p>US president at one point called Benjamin Netanyahu to order him to scale down an Israeli airstrike </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/24/israel-iran-war-live-updates-trump-declares-ceasefire-tehran-attack-us-base-qatar">Middle East crisis – live updates</a></p></li></ul><p>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 in order to get him to scale down an Israeli airstrike.</p><p>Waking in Washington to find the ceasefire he had brokered the night before had been violated by both sides, Trump told the media: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/trump-israel-iran-ceasefire-netanyahu">Continue reading...</a>