Iran's Aragchi denies ceasefire agreement, demands Israel end attacks to stop war

US President Donald Trump announced late on Monday night that a ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Iran and will enter into effect at 7 a.m. Israel time.

Trump claimed that Iran will immediately cease attacks and Israel will join the ceasefire on the 12th hour of the agreement, according to Reuters.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday that Tehran's attack on US military base al-Udeid in Qatar came in response to the US "aggression against Iran's territorial integrity and sovereignty."

He said Iran will be ready to respond again in case of further action by the US, according a statement posted by the Iranian foreign ministry's account on Telegram.

Qatar reopened its airspace after a brief suspension, its civil aviation authority said early on Tuesday, following a missile attack by Iran on an American air base in Qatar on Monday that caused no injuries.
   
 

The IDF's Farsi-language X/Twitter account warned Tehran residents in District 7 to evacuate the area on Tuesday.

"The Israeli army will operate in this area, as it has done in recent days throughout Iran to attack the Iranian regime's military infrastructure," the post read. 

The US embassy in Qatar lifted a shelter-in-place order on Monday evening, following Iranian strikes on the US-run Al Udeid Air Base outside the capital Doha.

The embassy, which had told American citizens to shelter in place earlier on Monday, said in a notice posted on its website that it would reopen on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump confirmed that Iran gave advanced notice ahead of attacking a US military base in Qatar on Monday.

"I am pleased to report that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly any damage was done. Most importantly, they’ve gotten it all out of their “system,” and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE," the president wrote on Truth Social. "I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured.

Dubai, Bahrain, and Kuwait all announced they have reopened their airspaces after closing them due to fears of Iranian missiles targeting US military bases in the Middle East, following Iran's attack in Qatar on Monday.

Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei said, "We didn't aggress anyone. And we will not accept any aggression from anyone under any circumstances," in his post on X/Twitter on Monday night.

"And we will not submit to anyone's harassment; this is the logic of the Iranian nation," he continued.

This post had a photo with a burning American flag and buildings on fire attached to it.

The Ayatollah's post came after the Iranian strikes on the US military base in Qatar.

Despite seemingly intensifying attacks by Israel on Iran and the dramatic US bombing of three nuclear sites, defense sources told The Jerusalem Post on Monday night that Jerusalem intends to wrap up the war against Tehran "in the coming days."

This vector raises questions about the purpose of those targets Israel is currently hitting if it will not continue attacking long enough to achieve a new more concrete goal than the enormous goals it achieved on June 13 and the major American achievements on Sunday.

To date, Israel and the US have destroyed Iran's three major nuclear sites, with their only being a partial question mark on whether the Fordow nuclear site struck by Washington was completely or only partially destroyed.

Iraj Mesdaghi, a former prisoner at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, told The Jerusalem Post he felt a sense of relief after witnessing the Israeli airstrike on the Evin Prison facility where political prisoners were held on Monday.

"When I saw the images, I had mixed feelings. On one hand, I was worried about the fate of the political prisoners, but on the other, I was glad the killers were being targeted," he said. "This was a powerful moment for us — to see those who tormented us finally being held accountable. But I must say: as long as Khamenei is alive, the cycle of violence isn't over."

Mesdaghi, who fled Iran in 1994, was a former Iranian political prisoner who endured 10 years of torture inside Evin. "The torture wasn’t just to extract information — it was constant. I was kept in solitary confinement for months, blindfolded, shoved into what they called 'the grave' — a tiny box. They lashed the soles of my feet with electric cables. Every part of my body was in pain."