Jun 24, 2025
Explosions were heard in northern Tehran after US President Donald Trump called for all Israeli fighter jets to leave Iran's airspace.
IDF sources have confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the air force did in fact strike one radar north of Tehran. A symbolic strike to straddle the need to respond to Iran's attack on the North, while respecting Trump's demand to do nothing or at most respond symbolically.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed this strike on the radar system, adding that it was in response to Iran's violations of the ceasefire agreement.
After the ceasefire went into effect at 7:00 a.m., at 7:06 a.m., Iran launched a missile at Israel, and then two more were launched at 10:25 a.m. All were either intercepted or fell in open areas, and there were no casualties, according to the Prime Minister's Office.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, prior to the 7:00 a.m. ceasefire with Iran, Israel heavily struck the heart of Tehran, targeting regime facilities and eliminating hundreds of Basij members and Iranian security forces.
Just before the ceasefire went into effect, Iran launched a barrage of missiles, one of which killed four in Beersheba.
Trump and Netanyahu's phone call
The PMO said that Israel refrained from further strikes in Iran after Netanyahu's conversation with Trump, during which, the office stressed, Trump "expressed his immense appreciation for Israel, which had achieved all of its war objectives. The president also expressed confidence in the stability of the ceasefire."
As Netanyahu and Trump spoke, senior US officials relayed a message to Iran through Qatar: "No further provocations, cease all attacks," a source told the Post.
The US president had appeared to be irate at the potential for Israeli strikes in Tehran.
Trump and Netanyahu held the phone call shortly after Trump made comments, saying, "Israel has to calm down, I have to get Israel to calm down," he said. "I'm gonna see if I can stop it."
In the call, Trump demanded that Netanyahu “completely cancel the attack." Netanyahu responded that a “strike is necessary,” as per a senior Israeli official.
As such, Israel only struck one site in the Islamic Republic.
“I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, ‘OK now you have 12 hours,’ you don’t go out to the first hour, just drop everything you have on, so I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either,” he said.
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post