PinnedPresident Trump lashed out at Israel and Iran on Tuesday for launching attacks after he had announced a cease-fire, highlighting the fragility of the deal that seeks to end 12 days of deadly fighting.In expletive-laced remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump said he was “not happy.” He sharply criticized Israel for firing on Iran “right after we made the deal” and said that the two adversaries didn’t know what they were doing. A White House official said that Mr. Trump had spoken with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday morning and was “firm and direct” about what needed to happen to sustain the cease-fire.Mr. Netanyahu’s office said that Iran had fired missiles after the cease-fire took effect, and that the Israeli military had retaliated by striking a radar system near Tehran. Iran’s military denied violating the cease-fire, and Mr. Netanyahu’s statement indicated that Israel’s retaliation was limited. That appeared to suggest that the two sides — both of which claim to have prevailed in the conflict — want the truce to hold. In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump said that Israel “is not going to attack Iran” and that “all planes will turn around and head home.”Mr. Trump’s comments came before he left Washington for a NATO summit in the Netherlands. The truce, if it holds, could give him a chance to claim a diplomatic achievement in a conflict that had threatened to escalate.Over the weekend, Mr. Trump ordered U.S. forces to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, prompting Tehran to respond by firing missiles at an American base in Qatar on Monday. Hours after Iran fired the missiles, which were intercepted, Mr. Trump abruptly announced a cease-fire between Israel and Iran, with few details, catching even some of his own officials by surprise.Here’s what else to know:Global reaction: The cease-fire announcement was welcomed, albeit cautiously, by world leaders. “If a cease-fire has indeed been achieved, then that can only be welcomed,” said Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. President Emmanuel Macron of France praised the cease-fire announcement but warned that “the situation remains volatile and unstable.”Trading fire: Before the cease-fire took effect, the Israeli military said it had struck missile launchers in western Iran that had been poised to fire at Israel. Iran launched at least four barrages of ballistic missiles at Israel. At least four people were killed when a missile hit an apartment building in the southern city of Beersheba. In Tehran, residents said they endured a night of the heaviest airstrikes since the war began June 13.Diplomacy: Qatar intervened on behalf of the Trump administration and persuaded Iran to agree to a cease-fire with Israel, according to three diplomats briefed on the matter. Mr. Trump had asked for Qatar’s help and the Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, then persuaded Iran to agree to the proposal in a call with the Iranian leadership, the diplomats said. The details of the cease-fire understandings remain unclear.Investors relieved: News of the cease-fire sent markets higher in Asia, where countries need energy imports to power their economies. Stocks in South Korea surged the most at 3 percent. S&P 500 stock futures were about 1 percent higher, signaling an expected rise when trading begins in New York. The price of oil has fallen back to around where it was before Israel first attacked Iran nearly two weeks ago.June 24, 2025, 11:56 a.m. ETAn Iranian missile strike in Beersheba, Israel, killed four people on Tuesday.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesAfter President Trump harshly criticized Israel and Iran on Tuesday for mounting attacks after his announcement that a cease-fire deal had been reached, both countries denied having violated the truce and pushed back with their own timelines of events.The absence of details surrounding the truce deal added to the confusion about the sequence of the strikes and counter-strikes that took place in the hours after the initial announcement. Mr. Trump did not publicly specify a start time when he announced the truce, for example. There are also time differences involved. Iranian time is half an hour ahead of Israeli time, which is seven hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time.Yet despite the discordant Iranian and Israeli claims about timelines, the mutual denials of violations strongly suggested that each side wanted the cease-fire to hold.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Tuesday afternoon that the cease-fire had been set to take effect at 7 a.m. Israel time. Four hours earlier, at 3 a.m., Israel attacked targets “in the heart of Tehran,” his office said in a statement, adding that shortly before the truce came into effect Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel.One hit an apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, killing four people.At 7:06 a.m. in Israel, Iran fired another missile, and then two more at 10:25 a.m., according to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu’s office said those missiles were intercepted or fell in open areas.Iran said its missile fire came as retaliation for Israel’s pre-dawn bombardment.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesIn response, Mr. Netanyahu’s office said, Israeli forces destroyed a radar position near Tehran.By then, Mr. Trump had publicly demanded that Israel not respond, describing the last volley of missiles fired by Iran at northern Israel as “one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot perhaps by mistake.”Despite earlier threats from the Israeli defense minister and military that Israel would respond forcefully to the missile fire, the actual Israeli response appeared to be limited and symbolic.“Following a conversation between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from further attacks,” Mr. Netanyahu’s office statement said.Around the same time, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that Israel’s warplanes would “turn around and head home.”Iran, for its part, said its missile fire came as retaliation for Israel’s pre-dawn bombardment, and only before the cease-fire was meant to start.The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said that in retaliation for “savage” Israeli attacks on Iran overnight, Iran had launched 14 missiles at military and logistical centers in Israel in the “final minutes” before the cease-fire came into effect, according to a statement published on the Telegram channel of Press TV, an Iranian state news channel. The statement made no mention of the firing any missiles after the cease-fire came into force, as Mr. Trump and Israel charged.In addition, an Iranian military spokesman, Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari, said Israel had launched “three waves of attacks” against Iran on Tuesday morning, after the cease-fire was supposed to take effect, with the last ending at 9 a.m. Iranian time, according to a Press TV report citing a report from Defa Press, another Iranian news agency.Fars, a news agency managed by the Revolutionary Guards, reported that explosions were heard in Babol and Babolsar, Iranian cities to the northeast of Tehran, without providing a time or any other details.Mr. Trump first announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a cease-fire deal on Monday evening — around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in Tehran — and Iran’s state television later announced a cease-fire early on Tuesday morning local time. The Israeli government remained silent until it made its own announcement of a cease-fire at about 9 a.m. Israel time, saying Israel had agreed to the truce.President Trump criticized Israel and Iran after they both attacked on Tuesday.Credit...Allison Robbert for The New York TimesAs he departed Washington on Tuesday morning for a NATO summit in the Netherlands, Mr. Trump fumed about violations of the cease-fire he had heralded, saying that he “didn’t like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal.”“They didn’t have to unload,” he said, adding, “and I didn’t like the fact that the retaliation was very strong.”Mr. Trump also said he was unhappy to learn that Israeli warplanes had headed out to retaliate for the Iranian missile fire hours after the truce came into effect.“I think they both violated it,” he said. “I don’t think, I’m not sure they did it intentionally. They couldn’t rein people back,” he said.June 24, 2025, 11:36 a.m. ETPrime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani of Qatar helped broker a cease-fire between Iran and Israel.Credit...Emilie Madi/ReutersBefore midnight on Monday, Qatari officials convened a group of journalists in a purple meeting room to protest a missile barrage from Iran that had targeted a large U.S. military installation in the desert outside the Qatari capital, Doha.Majed al-Ansari, the foreign ministry spokesman, declared that his country had the right to respond to the attack. At the same time, he called for de-escalating the war between Israel and Iran and for cease-fire negotiations.But it seems that Qatar had already begun to help to broker a truce, engaging quietly with Israel’s American allies and with the Iranian government behind the scenes.“What happened shows Qatar can take a hit but be pragmatic,” said Sanam Vakil, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House.After the United States intervened on the side of Israel and bombed Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday morning, Iran responded by attacking the Al Udeid aid base in Qatar.Qatar knew in advance that an attack on the base was planned on and almost all missiles fired at the site were intercepted, according to Maj. Gen. Shayeq Misfer al-Hajri, the Qatari deputy chief of staff for joint operations.On Tuesday, the Qatari foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador in Doha but did not announce any punitive measures against Iran.The Qatari government’s swift shift from defending its right to respond to playing mediator suggested an element of “choreography,” said Nicholas Hopton, who was Britain’s ambassador to Qatar from 2013 to 2015.As Qatar and the other Gulf nations watched the Israel-Iran war unfold over the past two weeks, they worried that an escalation could result in Iran targeting their strategic energy resources, undermining a critical source of their revenue.President Trump at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, in May. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesThe Iranian government may have viewed the base in Qatar as a less risky target than many of the other options in the region, if it wanted to minimize escalation and avoid damage to relations with other Gulf Arab countries, which had been warming in recent years.The wealthy emirate of Qatar has generally maintained closer ties with Iran than most of the other Gulf countries. It has also played a leading role in mediating between Israel and Hamas, the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group, since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.If Iran attacked another Gulf nation, it might have run into more complicated territory.The headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia’s oil installations could also have been become targets. But Iran’s diplomatic relations with these two other Gulf nations are still new and relatively shaky.The United Arab Emirates is one of Iran’s largest trading partners, offering Iran a vital link to the global economy as it navigates longstanding Western sanctions. The prospect of missiles flying over Dubai, a glitzy metropolis in the Emirates, would have alienated a neighbor that Iran depends on.Qatari officials intervened with Iran on behalf of the Trump administration, according to three diplomats briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. They said that Mr. Trump had told the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, that Israel had signed off on an American cease-fire proposal.The president had asked Qatar to help bring Iran on board, the diplomats said. The Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, then persuaded Iran to agree to the truce proposal by late Monday in a call with the Iranian leadership, the diplomats said.A senior White House official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations publicly, said the Qatari emir played a role in the cease-fire discussions.The truce took effect early Tuesday morning and appeared to be holding as evening approached.The wealthy emirate of Qatar has generally maintained closer ties with Iran than most of the other Gulf countries.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesQatar’s handling of the crisis illustrated the value the wealthy Gulf emirate puts in its relationship with the United States, said Mr. Hopton, the former British diplomat.“Trump wanted a de-escalation and Qatar was able to help him with that,” Mr. Hopton said.A pillar of Qatar’s foreign policy is to maintain a close relationship with the United States, and Qatari officials frequently take advantage of opportunities to prove to the American government that they can be a strategic ally on important American foreign policy objectives.With a small army, Qatar relies on the United States to provide it with a security blanket. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, powerful neighboring countries, have occasionally taken hostile positions against Qatar.Vivian Nereim and Maggie Haberman contributed reporting to this article.June 24, 2025, 11:34 a.m. ETStocks rose and oil prices fell for a second day as markets calmed after a bout of volatility stemming from the conflicts in the Middle East. The S&P 500 rose roughly 0.9 percent, adding to a similar gain on Monday. The price of Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, fell more than 4 percent.June 24, 2025, 11:21 a.m. ETRepresentative Al Green, Democrat of Texas, says he will introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump citing an abuse of power and the use of the military in a war without congressional authorization. “President Trump has not only violated his oath of office, he has also disregarded the separation of powers necessary to maintain the independence of our three branches of government,” Mr. Green said in a statement. One other Democratic lawmaker, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also raised the idea of impeachment, though her overture was not embraced by most within the party. This is the fourth time Mr. Green has led an impeachment effort against Mr. Trump.June 24, 2025, 10:45 a.m. ETPresident Trump has been pushing NATO allies in Europe to increase their military spending and decrease their reliance on U.S. protection.Credit...Allison Robbert for The New York TimesAs he left Washington Tuesday morning to travel to The Hague for the annual summit meeting of the NATO military alliance, President Trump was busy trying to hold together a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Iran. “Now we’re going to NATO and we’ll get a new set of problems,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We’ll solve a new set of problems.”The tentative cease-fire between Israel and Iran will likely dominate the agenda at the meeting, even as Russia continues to pummel Ukraine at the edge of the alliance’s territory. Mr. Trump is also expected to claim victory and assert that all NATO allies have agreed to spend 5 percent of their gross domestic product on their militaries, up from the current commitment of 2 percent. He has accused the allies of being overly dependent on the protection of U.S. forces.“NATO was broke, and I said, ‘You’re going to have to pay,’ and we did a whole thing, and now they’re paying a lot,” he said.But despite Mr. Trump's eagerness to take credit, not all countries have committed to the pledge. Spain, for example, has said it would not increase its spending above 2.1 percent of its G.D.P.“They’re having a problem with Spain,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday. “Always a problem with Spain. Spain’s not agreeing, which is very unfair to the rest of them.”And yet Mr. Trump has maintained that the United States — which spends about 3.5 percent of its G.D.P. on its military — does not need to meet the 5 percent goal he has demanded of other countries. He argues that, for one thing, the United States does not have the same need to invest in its infrastructure to support military equipment.“A lot of that money goes to rebuilding their bridges, their roads, so it can take heavy equipment,” he said. “And you know, we don’t have any roads in Europe. We don’t have any bridges in Europe."Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, has been eager to make Mr. Trump’s time at the summit go smoothly and avoid any diplomatic blowups — an effort that was clearly on display in a message from Mr. Rutte that Mr. Trump posted on his social media site.In the message, which representatives for Mr. Rutte confirmed as authentic, the NATO leader praised Mr. Trump’s “decisive action in Iran” and said he was “flying into another big success in The Hague this evening,” citing a consensus on the 5 percent spending figure.“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win,” the message said.On the plane, Mr. Trump played coy when asked whether he was committed to Article 5, the part of NATO’s treaty that stipulates an attack on one ally would be defended as an attack on all. The president said it “depends on your definition” of Article 5.“I’m committed to saving lives,” he said. “I’m committed to life and safety, and I’m going to give you an exact definition when I get there. I just don’t want to do it on the back of an airplane.”Mr. Trump is expected to spend less than 24 hours on the ground in the Netherlands. He will attend a dinner with other world leaders on Tuesday night and start Wednesday by having breakfast with the country’s king and queen. He will then participate in the plenary session and hold bilateral meetings and a news conference before returning to Washington.This is the fourth international trip of Mr. Trump’s second term, after a visit to Rome for the pope’s funeral, a trip to the Gulf and a brief visit to Canada for a Group of 7 meeting. He departed from Canada a day early because of the war between Israel and Iran.June 24, 2025, 10:00 a.m. ETMost communications between world leaders are considered private — unless President Trump sees some advantage to making it public. Which is what apparently just happened: Mr. Trump posted, on Truth Social, a screenshot of what appeared to be a Signal message from Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, praising him for striking the Iranian nuclear sites. “Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran,” the message read. Rutte called it “truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do.” NATO confirmed that the message was genuine.June 24, 2025, 9:28 a.m. ETPresident Trump speaking to reporters outside of the White House.Credit...Allison Robbert for The New York TimesPresident Trump on Tuesday accused Israel and Iran of violating a cease-fire deal that he had announced hours earlier, and demanded that the two countries adhere to the truce and bring an end to the war.Using an expletive in remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump said that the two adversaries did not know what they were doing, and sharply criticized Israel for firing on Iran “right after we made the deal.” Israel’s military earlier accused Tehran of firing missiles after the deal went into effect on Tuesday and vowed to retaliate. Iran’s military denied doing so, according to Iranian state news outlets.“They’ve violated but Israel’s violated it too,” Mr. Trump told reporters, referring to Iran and the cease-fire agreement as he boarded Marine One to begin a journey to The Hague for a NATO summit. Mr. Trump appeared to reserve greater criticism for Israel’s actions in the hours after the agreement was reached.“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel,” he said, adding that he would be “really unhappy” if Israel attacked Iran on Tuesday in retaliation for what the president described as “one rocket that didn’t land.”In a post on social media, Trump later warned Israel not to “DROP THOSE BOMBS,” saying “IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME NOW.”Nearly two hours after Israel’s announcement confirming that it had agreed to the truce, sirens in northern Israel warned of missiles launched from Iran. Israel’s military accused Iran of breaking the cease-fire, saying in a statement that it would “respond with force.”Israel retaliated by striking a radar system near Tehran, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement released after Mr. Trump’s comments. Despite the threat to respond with force, the attack appeared to have been minor and symbolic.In his comments to reporters, Mr. Trump also claimed that “Iran will never rebuild its nuclear,” apparently referring to the country’s nuclear program, which was one of the targets of Israel’s military campaign, along with Iran’s military leadership.Mr. Trump said later that the cease-fire between Israel and Iran remained in effect.“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter.” There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.June 24, 2025, 9:11 a.m. ETPresident Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had spoken by phone to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel after the plane took off for Europe. He said that he told Netanyahu to bring back military aircraft that Trump indicated were on the verge of attacking Iran. Trump also declared that the “last thing” on Iran’s mind now is a nuclear weapon.June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m. ETTehran, Iran’s capital, has been hit by Israeli airstrikes repeatedly since the war started on June 13.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesIn the hours before a cease-fire between Israel and Iran went into effect Tuesday morning, Tehran was pounded by the most intense and sustained airstrikes since the war started on June 13, residents said.Fifteen residents, speaking by phone and in texts and audio messages, said large flames illuminated the night sky over the city and there were massive billows of smoke. Close to sunrise, the attacks came to an end, according to four residents in different parts of the city.President Trump announced on Monday evening — around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in Tehran — that Iran and Israel had agreed to a cease-fire. Iran’s state television later announced a cease-fire early morning local time on Tuesday.By then, Tehran residents had endured one more night of heavy attacks and terror.Mariam, a 54-year-old art gallery owner, said in a tearful voice message that she and her teenage son were fleeing their home to her parents’ apartment because the airstrikes around them were too intense. Earlier on Monday, Israel’s military had urged people to evacuate their district, a densely populated residential and commercial area in central Tehran.“I pray that when I return tomorrow I still have a house, they are flattening the city tonight,” Mariam said in the message. Like all the residents contacted for this article, she only provided her first name because of fear of retribution from the authorities.Mostafa Shams, a journalist in Tehran, said the explosions around his house were loud and constant. He said he could see two jets flying over the area where he lives. As he spoke on Clubhouse, an audio-based social media platform, the audience of thousands could hear the boom and thuds of explosions.Amir, a 48-year-old resident of Tehran’s Jordan neighborhood, shared a video that showed loud explosions and huge flashes of orange lighting up the night sky.“No night has been like this, the sounds are huge, we can see fire and smoke from our window in multiple locations, We don’t know if we will be alive tomorrow morning,” said Alireza, a 27-year-old graduate student in Tehran, said in a phone message. He said he did not have electricity.Residents of several other districts in Tehran also said that they did not have power. “It’s the most terrifying night we have experienced, we are sitting in darkness and hearing things blowing up,” said Roya, 60, who said she was huddling with her husband and daughter in the stairwell of her apartment building.Ramin, who lives in Chitgar, a western suburb of Tehran, said many people in his neighborhood had come outside into the streets because they were afraid they might not survive the strikes if they stayed indoors.“It feels like they are using much bigger bombs tonight,” he said at around 3 a.m. local time, describing his neighborhood as “shaking badly.” Reached by phone at around 6 a.m. after the cease-fire announcement on state television, Ramin said, “Is it really over? Thank God.”June 24, 2025, 8:29 a.m. ETThe streets of Tehran on Tuesday morning. World leaders have expressed concern that the cease-fire remained fragile.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesWorld leaders reacted with cautious optimism to the news on Tuesday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a cease-fire after 12 days of unprecedented warfare between the two countries.Hours after the agreement was first announced by President Trump, then confirmed by Israel and Iran, Mr. Trump suggested that both had continued fighting and warned Israel that further attacks would be a “major violation.”Israel has accused Iran of violating the cease-fire and said it would retaliate. Iran’s military denied launching an attack after the cease-fire went into effect, Iranian state news outlets reported.Here is what some leaders and governments have said:United States: Mr. Trump, who helped broker the agreement, expressed displeasure with Israel and Iran on Tuesday, saying attacks appeared to have continued. “I’m gonna see if I can stop it,” he told reporters as he departed the White House to head to the NATO summit in the Netherlands.Russia: Dmitri S. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, said the Kremlin hoped the cease-fire would prove durable. “If a cease-fire has indeed been achieved, then that can only be welcomed,” he said. Russia and Iran are close allies, and Mr. Putin met with Iran’s foreign minister in Moscow on Monday, but there was no immediate indication that Russia had been involved in the diplomacy that led to the cease-fire announcements.France: President Emmanuel Macron praised Mr. Trump’s announcement that a cease-fire had been agreed, but he said that “the situation remains volatile and unstable.” Speaking to reporters during a visit to Norway, Mr. Macron said: “The last minutes have shown that the situation remains very fragile.”Germany: Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he welcomed Mr. Trump’s announcement and urged Israel and Iran to heed it. The United States and European countries would discuss ways to stabilize the situation later on Tuesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit, he said.The Netherlands: Prime Minister Dick Schoof called the cease-fire a “good step to prevent further escalation in the region.” Iran must never become a nuclear-armed state, he said on social media, urging the country to return to nuclear negotiations.Qatar: The cease-fire was in a “gray area,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, prime minister of Qatar, told a news conference on Tuesday. “No party wants to be the party that was hit last,” he said. Qatar’s emir helped negotiate the cease-fire, he said, adding that “what we hope to see, truly, is a serious cease-fire, with the parties acting responsibly.”Saudi Arabia: The country’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it welcomed the cease-fire announcement and valued “the efforts exerted to de-escalate tensions.”European Union: Reports of missile fire underscore “just how fragile this cease-fire potentially remains,” Anouar El Anouni, an E.U. spokesman for foreign affairs, said during a news conference. “We do call on Iran to engage seriously in a credible diplomatic process,” he added.June 24, 2025, 8:14 a.m. ETA White House official says that in a phone call from Air Force One as he was leaving for the NATO summit, President Trump was “firm and direct” with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel about what needed to happen to sustain the cease-fire. “The prime minister understood the severity of the situation and the concerns President Trump expressed,” the official said.June 24, 2025, 7:56 a.m. ETIn Tehran on Tuesday. Israeli airstrikes have wiped out much of the Iranian military’s top brass, and destroyed Iran’s air defenses and some of its nuclear and missile facilities.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesFresh from striking an American air base and then agreeing to a cease-fire with Israel, Iran claimed victory on Tuesday morning, saying that its attacks had pressured Israel into accepting a truce.“Defeat of the Zionist enemy,” ran the chyron on Iran’s state TV network as it broadcast news of the agreement Tuesday morning. State news agencies published a statement by the Iranian national security council saying that Tehran was “imposing a cease-fire” on Israel by striking a U.S. air base in Qatar and other targets.The 12-day war began with a barrage of Israeli airstrikes on Iran that wiped out much of the Iranian military’s top brass, and destroyed its air defenses and some of its nuclear and missile facilities. Subsequent Israeli attacks killed hundreds of Iranians, including children. And American airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites damaged, or may have destroyed, key parts of the country’s nuclear program.Still, Iranian officials were casting the outcome of the conflict as a resounding triumph for Iran and a decisive loss for Israel — a positive spin on what officials privately said was a face-saving effort to retaliate while avoiding an unwinnable all-out war with the United States.In public, the tone was swaggering, emphasizing Iran’s response: first, Iranian missile barrages into Israeli towns that sent Israelis ducking into bomb shelters, destroyed buildings and killed 28 people; then, the missile strike on Monday on the installation in Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base, which left no casualties.A retired Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps naval commander, Gen. Hossein Alaei, told ISNA, a state news agency, that Iran had been able not only to withstand Israeli attacks but also to hit targets in Israel and then launch an attack of its own devastating enough to force the United States to retreat.“In such circumstances, the warmongering Trump chose to accept a cease-fire and rein in the bloodthirsty Netanyahu,” he said, according to ISNA, referring to the American president and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Despite losing its top commanders, Iran proved it still had the capacity to strike Israel, General Alaei said. He added that the United States had entered the war only because “it became clear that Israel was unable to defeat Iran.”Tehran had “forced the enemy to regret and accept defeat and unilaterally stop its aggression,” the statement from the Iranian national security council said. It praised the “dazzling power” of the military, adding that Iran’s attacks had proven that its forces “will be ready” to respond “to any act of aggression by the enemy.”The government controls or restricts news outlets in Iran and has tightly limited internet access during the war, allowing little beyond its own message to filter into the country. Still, it is unclear how many Iranians — many of whom despise their theocratic leadership — will buy the official version of events. Although there has been widespread grumbling, mainly on social media, about the regime’s handling of Iran’s security, Iranians have also excoriated Israel and the United States for attacking their country.On social media on Tuesday, some Iranians expressed hope that the fear and destruction would finally end, while others remained cautious, saying that it was not clear whether the cease-fire would hold. They also posted about their worries that the conflict would cause the government to crack down harder than ever on domestic critics. Only hard-line supporters of the regime were echoing its triumphal statements.June 24, 2025, 7:46 a.m. ETPresident Trump says the cease-fire remains in force, after he demanded Israel refrain from retaliating for an Iranian missile that he said was fired after the truce came into effect. “ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he wrote on social media. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.June 24, 2025, 7:17 a.m. ETEuan WardReporting from Beirut, LebanonVideoThe Iraqi authorities said a wave of drones targeted several Iraqi military bases in the early hours of Tuesday, including the Taji base 12 miles north of Baghdad, hours after Iran launched missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar.CreditCredit...ReutersA wave of drones targeted several Iraqi military sites overnight on Tuesday, damaging two bases in what the Iraqi authorities described as a “cowardly and treacherous” assault at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East.The attacks, which occurred between 2:15 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. local time, struck the Taji military base, around 12 miles north of Baghdad, and the Imam Ali base in the southeast of Iraq. No casualties were reported, but “significant damage” was caused to the radar systems at both bases, Sabah al-Numan, a spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister, said in a statement.Security forces intercepted drones aimed at four other military sites operated by the Iraqi government, Mr. al-Numan added.There were no immediate claims of responsibility.The Taji base was a frequent target of rocket attacks by Iranian-linked Iraqi militias before U.S.-led coalition forces withdrew from the site in 2020. Once a major hub for American troops, the base was handed over to Iraqi forces that year as part of a broader drawdown by the United States in the country.Iranian-linked militias have long played a dual role in Iraq as security enforcers and political power brokers, and have been implicated in past attacks on Iraqi and U.S. military bases.Iraq’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, ordered an investigation to identify the perpetrators and the circumstances surrounding the latest attacks, according to Mr. al-Numan.The wave of drone attacks occurred just hours after Iran launched missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar, an offensive that was telegraphed in advance by Tehran and was in response to American strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran. The tit-for-tat strikes marked a significant escalation after nearly two weeks of intense conflict between Iran and Israel.On Tuesday, President Trump announced a cease-fire between Israel and Iran but the truce appeared to hang in the balance. The Israeli military said that Iran had broken the terms of the deal by firing missiles at Israel and vowed to retaliate.The Iranian military denied firing missiles after the cease-fire went into effect, according to Iranian state news outlets.June 24, 2025, 7:04 a.m. ETTrump has now boarded Air Force One en route to The Netherlands for the NATO Summit. He did not take any questions at Joint Base Andrews.VideoJune 24, 2025, 6:55 a.m. ETPresident Trump just expressed displeasure with Israel and Iran, saying attacks appear to have continued despite a cease-fire agreement that was meant to have taken hold. “I’m gonna see if I can stop it,” he told reporters as he departed the White House for a NATO summit in the Netherlands. He used an expletive to describe the actions by both countries.Videotranscriptbars0:00/0:57-0:00transcript“Israel says that Iran violated the peace agreement, the cease-fire agreement. Do you believe that Iran is still committed to the peace?” “Yeah I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it, too.” “Are you questioning if Israel is committed...?” “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either, but I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that.” “You know what we have, we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the [expletive] they’re doing. Do you understand that?”CreditCredit...Allison Robbert for The New York TimesJune 24, 2025, 6:57 a.m. ETIsrael has accused Iran of violating the cease-fire and said it would retaliate. In a post on social media, Trump has warned Israel not to “DROP THOSE BOMBS,” saying “IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME NOW. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”June 24, 2025, 6:49 a.m. ETLeily NikounazarIran’s health ministry said that Israeli attacks since the war began on June 13 had killed 606 people and wounded 5,332. In a statement on Telegram, the ministry noted that over Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours had killed 107 people.June 24, 2025, 6:30 a.m. ETAn emergency meeting of Gulf Arab foreign ministers will convene in Doha today to discuss the Iranian attack on a U.S. air base in Qatar, according to Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, the prime minister of Qatar. “We urge the U.S. and Iranians to return immediately to the negotiating table for nuclear negotiations to reach a diplomatic solution,” Sheikh Mohammed told a news conference, adding that the emir of Qatar had spoken to both President Trump and the Iranian president since the attack. The Iranian president “expressed his regret that the incident was in Qatar,” Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that “we hope for this issue to be contained as soon as possible and for this chapter to be behind us.”June 24, 2025, 6:05 a.m. ETAfter agreeing to a cease-fire in its war with Iran, Israel continued its military campaign in Gaza. The Israeli military issued an urgent warning around midday today instructing residents of four neighborhoods in northern Gaza to evacuate southward, saying in a statement that its troops were operating with significant force in the area.June 24, 2025, 5:43 a.m. ETLeily NikounazarIran’s Supreme National Security Council cast the cease-fire as a victory for Iran in a statement published by Iranian state media, saying that Iran was “imposing a cease-fire” on Israel by striking a U.S. base in Qatar and other targets. Iran had “forced the enemy to regret and accept defeat and unilaterally stop its aggression,” the statement said. It made no mention of Israel’s claim that Iran has violated the truce.June 24, 2025, 5:24 a.m. ETGabby Sobelman and Isabel KershnerGabby Sobelman reported from Beersheba, Israel, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem.VideoIran launched a deadly strike in Beersheba, Israel, and Israel struck targets in Tehran early Tuesday, Israeli officials said, hours before the countries confirmed they had agreed to a cease-fire.CreditCredit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesAt least four people were killed in southern Israel when a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit an apartment block before the two countries confirmed that they had agreed to a cease-fire on Tuesday, according to the Israeli authorities.The missile was one of about 20 fired in at least four barrages across the country in the hours surrounding the truce that was first announced by President Trump, according to Israeli officials. The Israeli military also said it struck missile launchers in western Iran that were poised to fire at Israel and had intercepted at least 15 drones that Iran launched overnight.The attack in Beersheba, a city of about 600,000 in southern Israel occurred at around sunrise, not long after Mr. Trump said that a phased cease-fire had been agreed. But the official start time of the truce was unclear.Hours after the strike, rescue workers were picking through the ruins of the building, advancing gingerly on ladders in a void where the middle three floors had been largely blown away. They were trying to access an area buried inside the structure where potential survivors may have been trapped.One of the dead individuals was found inside the fortified safe room of an apartment and the three others were found outside of it, according to Col. Asher Benbenishti of the Israeli military’s southern home front command.Two other buildings of a similar size in the complex, along with an adjacent school and nearby shops, also showed signs of serious damage. At the ground level, alongside a row of burned out cars, dozens of rescue workers had formed a human chain and were passing cement fragments from one to another to pile onto a growing mound of debris.City welfare workers had set up a white tent outside the school building to process and gather information from residents of the ruined buildings, many of whom were still in pajamas and holding their phones. Russian-language translators in yellow vests were on hand to help residents who had immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.“I have only one question — where do I go now?” one resident, Timor Kovalev, 38, asked in English as he held his wife’s hand and pulled up a white plastic chair.A city worker told them in Russian that they were being evacuated by bus to a hotel near the Dead Sea, to the north. Mr. Kovalev responded that he, his wife and two children needed to stay in Beersheba.The direct missile hit was one of the deadliest single Iranian strikes since the war began in the early hours of June 13 with an Israeli military assault on Iran’s nuclear sites, military personnel and infrastructure.The truce appeared tenuous, spurring anger from Mr. Trump.About two hours after the Israeli government announced that it had agreed to the cease-fire, sirens wailed again in northern Israel. The Israeli military said it had identified more incoming missiles from Iran and threatened to retaliate forcefully for what it described as a “severe violation of the cease-fire carried out by the Iranian regime.” Iran’s military denied that it had fired any more missiles, according to Iranian state news outlets.Israeli warplanes have pounded Iran since the start of the conflict, and Iran has fired more than 500 ballistic missiles and more than 1,000 drones, according to the Israeli government.Iran’s attacks on Israel have killed 28 people, including those in Beersheba on Tuesday. Israeli attacks on Iran have killed 606 people and wounded 5,332 since the war began, according to Iran’s health ministry.Images on Israeli television showed widespread destruction in a residential complex in Beersheba, a city in Israel’s Negev desert. Another missile struck a building in a major hospital complex in the city last week, causing serious damage, but no fatalities. Most patients and staff had already been evacuated or moved into other areas of the complex.Israel has accused Iran of deliberately firing into civilian areas. Iranian authorities say the Israeli military has hit targets in civilian buildings in Iran, and caused many deaths.Victoria Shifrin, who said she lived on the second floor of the building that was hit in Beersheba, told Israel’s Channel 12 television that she and her family had entered the safe room in their apartment when the sirens sounded. She said they heard a huge boom and the door of the fortified room blew in. “We understood it struck here,” she said.Police and rescue services helped the family leave, Ms. Shifrin said. She said she left with nothing but the dress and slippers she had hurriedly put on and described climbing and half-sliding down a destroyed staircase. “I was shaking,” she said. “We were terrified.”June 24, 2025, 5:06 a.m. ETLeily NikounazarThe Tasnim news agency, which is closely affiliated with Iran’s government, is reporting that the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces has denied reports that missiles were fired from Iran towards Israel after the cease-fire.June 24, 2025, 4:30 a.m. ETRafael Mariano Grossi, the director of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, welcomed news of a cease-fire. In a social-media post, he said he has invited Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi to meet to discuss a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program.June 24, 2025, 4:30 a.m. ETEyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, has accused Iran of breaking the cease-fire after rocket alert sirens blared out in northern Israel. “In light of the severe violation of the cease-fire carried out by the Iranian regime, we will respond with force,” Zamir said in a statement. There was no immediate comment from the Iranian authorities.June 24, 2025, 3:39 a.m. ETSirens are sounding now in northern Israel. The Israeli military says it has identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel.June 24, 2025, 3:28 a.m. ETRescue workers are searching the ruins of this apartment building in Beersheba, searching for any potential survivors who might be trapped inside. An Iranian missile hit the building this morning, killing at least four people.VideoCreditCredit...Gabby Sobelman/The New York TimesJune 24, 2025, 3:15 a.m. ETInvestors welcomed the news of the cease-fire. Markets jumped in Asia, where countries need energy imports to power their economies. Stocks in South Korea surged the most at 3 percent. S&P 500 stock futures were about 1 percent higher, signaling an expected rise when trading begins in New York. The price of oil has fallen back to around where it was before the fighting began nearly two weeks ago.June 24, 2025, 3:09 a.m. ETThe Israeli military’s chief spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, said in a televised statement that the military and air force would remain on high alert for any violations of the cease-fire.June 24, 2025, 2:29 a.m. ETPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting last night with his cabinet, military and security chiefs and announced that Israel had “achieved all the goals” of its campaign in Iran and much beyond them, according to an official statement. The “immediate” threat of a nuclear Iran has been removed, as well as the threat to Israel from Iranian ballistic missiles, the statement added.June 24, 2025, 2:23 a.m. ETIsrael has agreed to a mutual cease-fire, the Israeli government said in a statement.June 24, 2025, 2:23 a.m. ETHaving achieved its goals in its campaign in Iran, “and in full coordination with President Trump, Israel has agreed to the president’s proposal for a mutual cease-fire,” the Israeli government said in a statement.