Iran–Israel ceasefire (June 2025)
Parties: Israel, Iran
Mediators: United States, Qatar
A U.S.- and Qatar-brokered ceasefire ended the June 2025 "Twelve-Day War" between Israel and Iran. It broadly held for roughly eight months before bombing resumed on February 28, 2026; tit-for-tat strikes have continued through 2026 with no successor agreement.
On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a surprise air campaign against Iran's nuclear and military sites, killing senior commanders; Iran responded with ballistic-missile barrages on Israel. The U.S. joined the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Twelve days later, after Qatari mediation secured Tehran's agreement, President Donald Trump announced a "complete and total ceasefire," which took effect on June 24, 2025.
The truce was fragile from the first hours — both sides exchanged fire immediately after it was announced, and each accused the other of violating it. Trump publicly said he believed both sides had violated it before declaring it "in effect" after a call with Israel's leadership. Despite that shaky start, the ceasefire broadly held for roughly eight months.
On February 28, 2026, bombing resumed, and tit-for-tat strikes — including Iranian/U.S. exchanges in the Gulf and Israeli operations against Iranian-linked targets — have continued through mid-2026. There is no successor agreement. That is why this entry is tagged violated, not holding.
Status as of July 2026; verify before relying on this for decisions. Attribution of which side definitively broke the ceasefire is genuinely contested across sources, so this entry does not assign blame in a "who broke it" box — the timeline below carries the documented sequence of strikes and accusations.
Duration: Open-ended (no stated expiry); described by Trump as a "complete and total ceasefire"
- Cessation of strikes by both Israel and Iran
- Conditional: each side stated it would honour the truce only if the other did
Unlike the Lebanon or Gaza deals, this ceasefire had no formal written text with enumerated conditions published; terms were communicated via the mediators (U.S. and Qatar).
During the 12-day war (June 13–24): ~28 killed in Israel (mostly civilians) and roughly 1,060–1,190 killed in Iran; thousands wounded on both sides.
Figures are contested and vary by source. Iranian death toll estimates range from ~1,060 (Wikipedia compilation) to 1,190 (Iran Human Rights Activists / HRA); Iranian state media reported 935 confirmed killed. Israeli figures: 28 killed per ACLED/Times of Israel, ~3,000+ injured. These are war-phase casualties, not post-ceasefire.
Source: ACLED — Twelve days that shook the region; Wikipedia — Casualties of the Twelve-Day War
Sources:
- Twelve-Day War ceasefire — Wikipedia
- Twelve-Day War — Wikipedia (casualties, timeline)
- ACLED — Twelve days that shook the region: Inside the Iran-Israel war
- AP — Fragile ceasefire appears to hold between Iran and Israel
- Al Jazeera — Iran and US trade blame for attacks threatening fragile ceasefire (June 27, 2026)
- Reuters — Trump announces Israel-Iran ceasefire (June 23, 2025)
Last updated 2026-07-16