Here is a summary of today’s events so far

• Donald Trump has warned Israel on social media not to ‘drop those bombs’ after he had earlier announced a ceasefire.
• Using an expletive, he said that Israel and Iran have been fighting for so long “they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing”.
• Israeli defence minister Israel Katz ordered the country’s military to respond forcefully to what he said was Iran’s violation of a ceasefire with Israel.
• Katz said the military had now been instructed to carry out high-intensity operations against targets in Tehran.
• Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has announced “the end of the 12-day war imposed” by Israel, according to Iranian news agency IRNA.

Key Reads

• Fintan O’Toole: Nuclear weapons have been in the Middle East for decades - in Israel
• Keith Duggan: Israel-Iran ceasefire announcement shows Trump’s uncanny ability to shape the narrative

Leaders of Britain, France and Germany have it is now “time for diplomacy”, as a shaky ceasefire begins to take hold between Israel and Iran.

British prime minister Keir Starmer met with French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz at the NATO summit in The Hague.

“The leaders reflected on the volatile situation in the Middle East,” Starmer’s office said in a statement following the meeting.

“Now was the time for diplomacy and for Iran to come to the negotiating table, they agreed.”

Acting US envoy to the UN, Dorothy Shea, has told the United Nations Security Council that strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon.”

An early US intelligence assessment has indicated that strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last week did not destroy the core components of Tehran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, CNN is reporting.

The assessment was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm, according to CNN, which cited four sources briefed on the assessment.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available.

However, early findings are at odds with comments from both Trump and US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth that Iran’s nuclear facilities have been “obliterated.”

The US military has said the operation went as planned and that it was an “overwhelming success.”

Two familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed, according to CNN, while another said the centrifuges are largely “intact.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community.”

“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,” she said.

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said Israel achieved a “historic victory” that would “stand for generations.”

In a video issued by the prime minister’s office, Netanyahu added that it must complete its campaign against Iran’s axis, defeat Hamas and bring about the return of all the hostages in Gaza.

He added that Israel never had a better friend in the White House than Donald Trump.

Israel would strike Iran’s nuclear project again if it gets rebuilt, he said.

“We have dismantled the Iranian nuclear project. And if anyone in Iran thinks of rebuilding it, we will strike again,” he said.

Iranian president announces ‘end of the 12-day war’

Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has announced “the end of the 12-day war imposed” by Israel, according to Iranian news agency IRNA.

“Today, after the heroic resistance of our great nation, which is making history with its determination, we are witnessing the establishment of a truce and the end of this 12-day war, imposed by Israel’s adventurism and provocation,” Pezeshkian said.

Iran’s air space is to be reopened tonight, Iran’s state-affiliated Nournews is reporting, twelve days since Israel’s began its war on the country.

No timings were given in the report.

Reuters reports that the Israeli military’s chief of staff Eyal Zamir said the military was at “the conclusion of a significant chapter but the campaign against Iran is not over”.

Zamir said that the military’s focus was on returning to Gaza to bring back Israel’s hostages and to “dismantle Hamas’s rule,” according to a statement by the military.

US president Donald Trump has said both Israel and Iran wanted to stop the war “equally”.

Posting on the social media channel Truth Social, Mr Trump said it was his honour to “Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!”

Two more groups of Irish citizens have been assisted in leaving both Israel and Iran, Tánaiste Simon Harris has confirmed.

Three citizens left Israel this afternoon with the support of the Netherlands while two citizens left Iran this morning assisted by the Irish Embassy in Ankara.

Mr Harris said he encouraged “Irish citizens in the region to continue to monitor developments closely, to follow the advice of local authorities and to register with their Embassy where they have not already done so.”

Nato confirms Rutte’s congratulatory text to Trump

On that Rutte text to Mr Trump, Reuters has just reported that Nato officials confirmed the message was sent by Mr Rutte to Mr Trump earlier on Tuesday.

On his way to the Netherlands, Donald Trump injected some uncertainty over whether the US would abide by the mutual defence guarantees outlined in the Nato treaty, AP reported, in vague comments made on board of Air Force One.

“Depends on your definition,” Mr Trump told reporters on Tuesday as he was headed to The Hague, where this year’s summit is being held.

“There’s numerous definitions of article five, you know that, right? But I’m committed to being their friends.”

AP added that asked later to clarify, Mr Trump said he is “committed to saving lives” and “committed to life and safety” but did not expand further, saying he didn’t want to elaborate while flying on an airplane.

Trump posts what he claims to be congratulatory text message from Nato’s Rutte

On his way to The Hague, Donald Trump has posted what purports to be a text message from Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.

In it, the contact, saved as Rutte, congratulates Trump on “decisive action in Iran” that was “truly extraordinary” and “something no one else dared to do”.

The contact then goes on to say Trump is “flying into another big success in The Hague”, and adds: “It was not easy but we’ve got them all signed onto 5 per cent!”

It adds: “Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe, and the world. You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done.”

President Trump’s F-bomb on Israel and Iran would seem to have had the effect of concentrating minds in the Middle East.

“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,” he said on his way to the Nato summit in the Netherlands.

Later, however, he announced that Israel had backed off its threat to attack Tehran and would turn its jets around.

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel struck an Iranian radar in response to the Iranian missile attack early Tuesday – but held off on something bigger.

“Following President Trump’s conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from additional attacks,” Mr Netanyahu’s office said.

Mr Netanyahu said Israel had agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with Iran, in co-ordination with Mr Trump, after the country achieved all of its war goals, including removing the threat of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

Mr Trump said Tuesday that he was not seeking regime change in Iran, two days after first floating the idea.

“Regime change takes chaos,” Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

Trump drops F-bomb

President Trump just used the F-bomb in a media briefing on the White House lawn before he left for the Nato summit.

The president raged against both countries for violating the ceasefire he assumed had been agreed.

He said Israel had “unloaded” on Iran “as soon as we made the deal”.

“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,” a furious Trump said of Israel and Iran, each of which he accused of violating the truce he announced the night earlier.

“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.”

Here’s the F-bomb exchange.

In another post on Truth Social, the US president has claimed Iran will never be able to rebuild its nuclear programme.

Donald Trump is on his way to a Nato summit in the Netherlands, in what will be his first appearance at Nato since returning to the White House.

World leaders are gathering for the historic two-day summit that could unite the world’s biggest security organisation around a new defence spending pledge or widen divisions among the 32 allies.

Mr Trump’s appearance at the summit was supposed to centre on how the US secured the historic military spending pledge from others in the security alliance – effectively bending it to its will.

But in the spotlight instead is Mr Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran, as well as the president’s sudden announcement that Israel and Iran had reached a “complete and total ceasefire”.

Mr Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy at some point during the summit in The Hague.

Ukraine has suffered as a result of the Iran-Israel conflict, which has created a need for weapons and ammunition that Kyiv desperately wants, and shifted the world’s attention away from the Ukraine-Russia war. – AP

Mr Trump called Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu and asked him not to attack Iran, an Axios reporter said in an X post on Tuesday, citing an Israeli official.

Mr Netanyahu told the US president he was unable to cancel the attack and that it was needed because Iran violated the ceasefire, the reporter from the US news website said.

The attack would be significantly scaled back and would not hit a large number of targets but only strike one target, according to the report.

Donald Trump has posted once more on the Truth Social platform, insisting the Israel-Iran ceasefire is “in effect”.

The US president posted: “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! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”

Iran said on Tuesday that at least 610 people had been killed and more than 4,700 wounded since the start of the war with Israel on June 13th, AFP reports.

“Over the past 12 days, hospitals ... have been confronted with extremely harrowing scenes,” health ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said on X, announcing the increase from the previously reported toll of more than 400 dead and 3,056 wounded. – Guardian

US president Donald Trump has accused both Israel and Iran of violating the ceasefire after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel, which had announced plans for major new strikes on Tehran.

The US president said Israel has to calm down.

Using an expletive, he said that Israel and Iran have been fighting for so long “they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing”.

“Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after he left the White House for a trip to a Nato summit in The Hague.

Before boarding, he told reporters he was “not happy” with either side for violating the truce, particularly with Israel, which he said had “unloaded” straight after agreeing to it.

“I didn’t like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn’t have to unload and I didn’t like the fact that the retaliation was very strong,” Mr Trump told reporters.

“In all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot, and now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn’t land anywhere. That’s not what we want,” the president said.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz had said he had ordered the military to mount new strikes on targets in Tehran in response to what he said were Iranian missiles fired in a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire.

Iran denied launching any missiles and said Israel’s attacks had continued for an hour and a half beyond the time the ceasefire was meant to start.

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has said there is “a real fragility” to the ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

Mr Harris said that a cessation in violence allows for diplomacy and dialogue.

He made the comments after returning from a meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels, where they discussed the growing crisis in the Middle East.

Mr Harris said: “We’ve been very clear at an Irish level and at a European level that the only way you bring safety and security to the region is through diplomacy, through dialogue and through de-escalation.

“Yesterday, when we had very extensive discussions in Brussels on this matter, we’re very clear that Europe is ready to play a role in trying to help create that space for that sustained diplomacy. So we need to see regional stability, and we need to now see the ceasefire underpinned by sustained diplomacy.

“I think we obviously have to welcome the fact that there is a temporary ceasefire in place. That is a good thing. A cessation of violence, of hostilities, to allow space for diplomacy and dialogue is a good thing. But of course, there’s a real fragility to this.

“At the moment, we have agreement for a temporary ceasefire. We hope that that turns into a permanent ceasefire, but that’s what’s in place at the moment.”

European shares surged on Tuesday and do not seem to have been unduly affected by Israeli defence minister Israel Katz saying he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were missiles fired by Iran in a violation of the ceasefire announced hours earlier.

Iran’s ISNA news agency said reports that Iran had fired missiles at Israel after the ceasefire took effect were false.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index advanced 1.3 per cent to 542.2 points.

Other major regional indexes also traded higher – Germany was up 2.1 per cent, France gained 1.3 per cent, Spain rose 1.4 per cent, and the UK advanced 0.4 per cent.

All major sectors, barring energy and utilities, traded higher.

European travel and leisure stocks led sectoral gains with a 3.6 per cent rise on Israel-Iran ceasefire news.

On the flip side, the oil and gas sector lost 2.1 per cent hitting two-week lows, tracking a fall in oil prices.

The last post on X from Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi would definitely suggest a ceasefire is in place from 4am Tehran time (1.30am) Irish time.

He wrote: “The military operations of our powerful Armed Forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last minute, at 4am.

“Together with all Iranians, I thank our brave armed forces who remain ready to defend our dear country until their last drop of blood, and who responded to any attack by the enemy until the very last minute.

“Provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards. The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”

So what is happening if missiles are still being fired at Israel and Israel has responded in kind?

The BBC is reporting that sirens have been sounding over northern Israel this morning.

There appears to be some confusion as to whether or not a ceasefire has actually been agreed to.

Iran denies that it has fired any missiles at Israel, but, if it hasn’t done it, who has?

Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has responded to the alleged breach by posting on X: “Tehran will tremble”.

Reuters is reporting that Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has ordered the country’s military to respond forcefully to what he said was Iran’s violation of a ceasefire with Israel.

The directive followed an announcement by the military that it had detected missile launches from Iran towards Israel.

Less than three hours earlier, US president Donald Trump had said that the ceasefire was now in effect. Mr Katz said the military had now been instructed to carry out high-intensity operations against targets in Tehran.

Senator Frances Black said she will hold Tánaiste Simon Harris to account in relation to the Occupied Territories Bill, which will go before the Cabinet today.

Ms Black told Newstalk Breakfast that she welcomed the fact that the Bill was going before Cabinet after years of “unnecessary delays”.

“We urgently need to see action now. I have to be clear on this, the legislation that’s agreed by Cabinet today, it’s still only a draft, but the Tánaiste has committed both to me and publicly that the Government are willing to include services in the final Bill if we can get the legal details right,” she said.

“I am absolutely 100 per cent certain that we can and I’m going to hold him to that promise. I know the Bill will be going for committee scrutiny and the foreign affairs committee will get this draft, read it and they will give feedback and recommend any changes before the session is finished or finalised.”

Occupied Territories Bill returns

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran will now turn the attention back to Gaza.

The long-awaited Occupied Territories Bill will be brought to Cabinet this morning.

The legislation will be known as the Israeli Settlements Prohibition of Importation of Goods Bill 2025.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that Gaza could be forgotten as international focus moves to the war between Iran and Israel.

Mr Martin said the diplomatic process relating to Iran’s nuclear programme should have been allowed to play itself out but what was required now, he said, “is a complete de-escalation, an ending of the war and also we cannot forget Gaza.

“There’s a huge danger that Gaza will be sidelined and marginalised in terms of the international profile. The continuing loss of life in Gaza is appalling. The number of children facing malnutrition and death from malnutrition is simply unconscionable and the international community needs to maintain its focus on ending the war in Gaza, allowing for a huge surge in humanitarian aid in, the release of all hostages and the commencement of the reconstruction of Gaza and the peace process there.”

European shares climbed more than 1 per cent on Tuesday after Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, boosting investor sentiment and risk appetite across global markets.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 1.4 per cent at 542.6 points. Other major regional indexes also traded higher, with Germany’s benchmark leading gains with a nearly 2 per cent jump.

At least nine people have been killed and four homes destroyed in an attack in northern Iran, local officials say.

The governor’s office in Gilan says 33 people were also injured in what it’s calling a “terrorist” attack on the city of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh.

Iranian media reports say Israel was behind the attack.

The deputy governor of Gilan says 16 of those killed or injured are women and children.

Some media outlets are reporting that Mohammad Reza Seddiqi, a nuclear scientist, was among the dead.

The Israeli military has also just mentioned the killing of a senior nuclear scientist overnight.

Oil prices fall as threat of all-out war recedes

Oil prices plunged when it became clear the strikes on Qatar weren’t deadly, with traders taking it as a sign that Iran had no intention of escalating tensions with Washington, let alone engulfing other countries in the oil-rich region in a wider war.

Brent fell more than 5 per cent to around $67.90 a barrel in early trading on Tuesday, following a drop of more than 7 per cent on Monday. It’s now back to the level it was before Israel started attacking Iran on June 13.

Israel was still striking targets in Iran early on Tuesday, but the explosions in Tehran seemed to stop at about 4am local time, the BBC reported, citing local residents.

While Israeli officials remained silent overnight, a senior White House official said Trump brokered the ceasefire in a direct conversation with Netanyahu on Monday.

Vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff held direct and indirect talks with the Iranians about the proposal, the official said.

Israel agreed to the truce as long as Iran did not launch further attacks, and the Iranian government signalled it would abide by those terms, according to the official.

Israel states it has removed Iran’s threat

Israel says it has agreed to the ceasefire proposal after “achieving the objectives” of its attack on Iran.

Israel has removed Iran’s “dual immediate existential threat” from nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

Israel has “inflicted severe damage on the military leadership, and destroyed dozens of central Iranian government targets”, according to the statement.

The country had also “severely struck government targets in the heart of Tehran, eliminating hundreds of Basij operatives” – a militia the Iranian government often uses to suppress protests – and “eliminating another senior nuclear scientist”.

The statement concluded: “Israel thanks President Trump and the United States for their support in defence and their participation in eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat.”

BREAKING NEWS: Binyamin Netanyahu says Israel has agreed to a ceasefire. He thanked president Donald Trump for helping to destroy Iran’s nuclear threat.

Iranian state media outlet SNN reports that Iran has fired “a last round of missiles” towards Israel before a ceasefire comes into effect.

Israel said it detected waves of missile strikes earlier that killed at least four people.

Iran’s state TV is also reporting that a ceasefire has been “imposed” on Israel after waves of Iranian attacks.

Israel has not publicly accepted the ceasefire proposal.

‘Please do not violate it!’

US president Donald Trump says a ceasefire between Israel and Iran is “now in effect” and tells both countries: “Please do not violate it!”

Donald Trump says Iran and Israel have agreed ceasefire

US president Donald Trump has announced in a social media post that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire. “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, “THE 12 DAY WAR,” Mr Trump wrote on his platform, Truth Social.

“This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will!” Mr Trump later told NBC the ceasefire was “unlimited” and would last “forever”.