A furious Donald Trump used expletive language in a warning to Iran and Israel after the two countries broke ceasefire terms on Tuesday morning – hours into the deal being agreed
An expert has warned Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu is the “biggest loser” in the broken Iran ceasefire, after Donald Trump’s expletive outburst. An enraged Trump issued a warning to Iran and Israel after the two countries broke ceasefire terms on Tuesday morning.
He also declared he was “not happy” with Israel. “I didn’t like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal,” the US president said to reporters at the White House. “They didn’t have to unload. We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing.”
Iran has accused Israel of having carried out strikes on the country after the ceasefire came into effect. It claims Israel struck Iran in three stages up until 9am local time (about 5:30am UK time), according to Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters said, the country’s state TV said.
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An Israeli strike Monday on Iran’s city of Karaj near Tehran killed seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, including two generals with the paramilitary force, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Defence Minister Israel Katz had said in a statement that the IDF would “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.”
Trump, who was departing for the NATO summit at The Hague, said he was “not happy with” with Israel for violating the ceasefire.
Anthony Glees, an academic in security and defence and a lecturer at the University of Buckingham, believes Benjamin Netanyahu will be the “biggest loser” following the broken ceasefire.
He told The Mirror: “Ceasefires are often broken, it can take time to get the orders to stop firing out to the military, not least for a country that’s had its communications severely degraded.
“Of course, the question is whether what we’re seeing in the past couple of hours is more than a hiccup and whether Iran and or Netanyahu will decide to challenge Trump’s surprise declaration of a ceasefire – so surprising we’re told it took his own officials by complete surprise.
“However, what we can say right now is that the winners here at the moment are the ayatollahs. Not Trump and certainly not Netanyahu who will be spitting blood right now, both literally and metaphorically. He has not got what he’s wanted for so many years, an end to the ayatollahs.
“Netanyahu is the big loser at this point, this morning and will be hoping the ceasefire breaks down and he can carry on. At the same time, Israel wanted a Blitzkrieg war against the regime in Teheran. The thing they most fear is a re-run of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war which went on for 8 years. There are 9 million Israelis but 90 million Iranians. A war of attrition would be won by Iran.”