Iran determined the timing of 'ceasefire', not Zionist regime: Israeli general
A reserve general in the Israeli military has acknowledged that it was the Islamic Republic of Iran—not the Tel Aviv regime—that determined the timing of the cessation of Israeli aggression.
Israel was forced to unilaterally halt its aggression against Iran in the early hours of Tuesday, June 24, after US President Donald Trump made an announcement on his social media platform, claiming that a ceasefire had been reached.
Reserve Major General Yom-Tov Samia, speaking to Israeli media, said Iran took control of the entire situation and determined when the ceasefire would begin.
Commenting on the cost of the halt in fighting for Israel, Samia said Tel Aviv has “bought a few years of calm at a low price, but with wounds that will last for generations.”
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Israel’s unprovoked and unlawful aggression against Iran, launched on June 13, prompted a decisive response by the Iranian armed forces targeting strategic sites in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other parts of the occupied territories.
Samia also cast doubt on claims made by the US and Israel that Washington’s airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran eliminated the country’s nuclear program.
“There is no certainty that the country’s nuclear program can actually be destroyed.”
The US aggression against Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan was reported in the early hours of Sunday, June 22.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the notion of “eliminating” the country’s nuclear energy program, saying it is “based on indigenous knowledge and cannot be eliminated by bombing.”
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