The United States President Donald Trump, who is currently en route to a NATO summit in the Netherlands, has rebuked Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary outburst at an ally whose military campaign he had joined two days earlier.
The president conveyed he was unhappy in particular with Israel, who he said quickly violated the truce.
Trump held a “firm and direct” call with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu this morning, according to a White House source.
“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!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
That followed a post in which he had said: “Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now”.
Moreover, this is coming after explosions rang out in Tehran from Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday despite Trump saying the Jewish nation had called off strikes at his command to preserve an hours-old ceasefire.
Two witnesses in the Iranian capital according to Reuters, said they heard two loud explosions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office acknowledged that Israel had struck a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire had been due to start.