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President Trump said the truce was holding after lashing out at both countries for seemingly violating the agreement.
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Israelis and Iranians Embrace a Return to Normalcy as Truce Holds
After a shaky start to the U.S.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Iran, a sense of normalcy returned to the warring countries on Wednesday as the truce appeared to hold.
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Thank you, God. “It’s good to bring the kids back to school. Good for us, the parents, and also good for the kids.” “I feel relieved in — for the first time. I had a good sleep and not going to the bomb shelter.”
President Trump said on Wednesday that the cease-fire between Israel and Iran was “going very well.”
His remarks at the NATO summit in the Netherlands came a day after Mr. Trump suggested that neither country had held to a truce that they had reached hours earlier. His remarks to reporters on Tuesday were angry.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long, and so hard, that they don’t know what” they were doing, he said, using an expletive.
Iran’s military denied violating the cease-fire, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated in a statement that Israel’s retaliation was limited. That appeared to suggest both countries, which each claim to have prevailed in the conflict, wanted the truce to hold.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he was “so proud” of Israel for turning around its planes, at his behest the previous day, after Iran had “a little bit of a violation” of the truce.
The truce paused 12 days of warfare between the two regional rivals that had drawn in the United States, which bombed three Iranian nuclear sites.
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