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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Declares a Cease-Fire in the '12-Day War' Between Israel and Iran

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump says the war is at an end, after Iran tries to save face by unsuccessfully firing 14 missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar. Are analysts confident that America's bunker-buster bombs disabled the Iranian nuclear program? If Tehran tries to rebuild its uranium enrichment capacity, will Israel strike again? And how does that fit into Trump's peace rhetoric? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:41.5

President Trump announces a ceasefire between Israel and Iran in what he is now calling the 12-day war. But will it hold? And how confident are we

0:49.0

that the U.S. bunker busters obliterated Iran's nuclear program, as the Trump administration says.

0:56.1

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues,

1:02.0

editorial board members, Elliot Kaufman, and Kate Batchelder O'Dell. On Monday evening in the U.S.,

1:08.9

here was the social media post from real Donald Trump, as he is known on the internet.

1:14.6

It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran will have wound down and completed in their progress final missions,

1:28.0

for 12 hours at which point the war will be considered ended.

1:32.4

He went on to add, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran,

1:35.9

on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day

1:40.8

war, unquote.

1:42.6

But Tuesday morning in the Middle East, there was a late exchange of fire

1:46.4

between these two countries. Here is President Trump on the White House lawn earlier today.

1:52.0

Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of

1:56.6

which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen, I'm not happy with Israel.

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