Will Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire really hold?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After bombing Iran, US President Donald Trump tried to turn down the temperature in the Middle East with a ceasefire declaration on Truth Social. The all-caps announcement fell flat as both continued striking. How long can a truce hold when each side insists the other broke it first?
In this episode:
- Alex Gatopoulos (@AlexGatopoulos), Al Jazeera English Defense Editor
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sonia Bhagat, and Haleema Shah, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Mariana Navarrete, and our host, Manny Rapalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang and Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, has a tenuous ceasefire been struck in the Middle East. |
| 0:16.0 | Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which |
| 0:20.9 | I've never seen before. |
| 0:22.4 | The biggest load that we've seen. |
| 0:24.9 | With peace still uncertain, how much further could this conflict go? |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Manuel Rapalo, and this is the take. |
| 0:40.5 | U.S. President Donald Trump leaned on some choice words Tuesday morning to describe his disappointment |
| 0:46.1 | that the ceasefire he'd announced hours earlier wasn't being implemented. |
| 0:51.0 | We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the |
| 0:57.0 | they're doing. |
| 0:58.0 | Do you understand that? |
| 1:00.0 | Meanwhile, smoke plumed from the Iranian city of Karaj, outside of Tehran, and Israeli rescue |
| 1:06.0 | workers loaded people onto stretchers in Ber shiva. |
| 1:15.7 | But moments after his fiery statements, Trump was back on truth social, promising, |
| 1:18.0 | quote, Israel would not be attacking Iran. |
| 1:24.1 | All planes will turn around and head home while doing a friendly, quote, plane wave to Iran. |
| 1:25.6 | Nobody will be hurt. |
| 1:29.1 | And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, |
| 1:35.4 | said Israel held off on tougher strikes after speaking with Trump. To help us make sense of this and to help us understand what's at stake here, we got in touch with Al Jazeera's defense |
| 1:39.9 | editor, Alex Catapoulos, and Doha. Alex Catopoulos, welcome to the take. |
| 1:46.3 | It's been a surreal couple of weeks, beginning with Israel's attack on Iran. |
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