Hot day in New York City today.

It's 5.59 a.m. Wake up if you must. Good morning. Welcome to morning, Joe. It's Tuesday, June 24th. We've got a lot to get to, including the developing situation in the Middle East.

As Israel is now accusing Iran of breaking a ceasefire agreement overnight, claiming that Tehran fired more missiles.

Also ahead, we're going to go through Iran's retaliatory attack on a U.S. military base in the region. Their response to President Trump

strikes over the weekend. Meanwhile, the president is headed to the Netherlands this morning for the NATO summit.

We're going to be joined by Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, who are going to be part of a

congressional delegation at that event. With us this morning, we have co-hosts of our fourth hour contributing writer of the Atlantic,

Jonathan Lemire.

Also, bureau chief at the USA Today, Susan Page and New York Times opinion columnist David French.

The Washington Post, David Ignatius, will join us in a moment.

So Jonathan Amir, while we were sleeping, news breaking.

Yeah, there is a lot to get to this morning, and we'll begin with that breaking news.

A top Israeli official says that Iran has completely violated the ceasefire just hours after it went into effect.

Officials claim that Tehran launched more missiles into

Israeli territory. No injuries, though, have been reported. Iran is denying that it violated the

agreement, but now the IDF has been instructed to respond forcefully with strikes against the Iranian

government targets in the heart of Tehran.

This comes just two hours after Israel officially accepted the ceasefire deal with Iran,

and President Trump claimed that the agreement was in effect.

Now, Trump first announced the deal yesterday evening, saying Iran will halt its attacks

first, then Israel will start

the ceasefire, bringing an end to, in his words, an official end to the 12-day war. Iran said last

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