Israel - Iran ceasefire appears to be holding
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
President Trump made an angry intervention, accusing both sides of violating it when hostilities looked like they would restart.
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(Picture: President Trump speaking to reporters Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Julian Warwicker. |
| 0:09.8 | Even by recent standards, this has been a remarkable day in the conflict between Israel and Iran. |
| 0:16.1 | Overnight there was heavy fire exchanged by both sides, |
| 0:19.3 | with a number of people reported to have been killed. |
| 0:22.0 | But then, in the early hours of the morning, US time, President Trump posted on social media that a ceasefire was coming into effect. |
| 0:30.1 | The Israelis said they supported it, and the Iranians said they would stop their attacks if Israel did the same. |
| 0:36.3 | But then came doubts. The Israeli military said |
| 0:39.2 | it had identified missiles launched from Iran and intercepted them over northern Israel. For their |
| 0:44.9 | part, Iran denied firing any missiles, but the Israelis said they would respond with force. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, speaking in very direct language before taking off for the NATO summit in the Netherlands, |
| 0:55.9 | President Trump said he was particularly angry with Israel, but that he also blamed Iran for |
| 1:01.2 | violating the ceasefire he'd announced. |
| 1:04.2 | We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't |
| 1:10.2 | know what the they're doing. Do you understand that? |
| 1:13.5 | Well, suffice to say that wasn't bleeped when it went out live on many US television networks. |
| 1:18.2 | In more recent remarks made to reporters during his flight to Europe, |
| 1:21.8 | Mr. Trump was asked if he wanted regime change in Iran. |
| 1:26.2 | No, I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. |
| 1:31.7 | Regime change takes chaos, and ideally we don't want to see so much chaos, so we'll see how it does. |
| 1:38.2 | You know, the Iranians are very good traders, very good business people, and they've got a lot of |
| 1:43.1 | oil. They should be fine. |
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