Iran says senior nuclear scientist figure killed in strike on family home

The Israeli Air Force struck an Iranian radar site north of Tehran in a limited response to ballistic missiles launched by Iran earlier Tuesday, Israeli officials told Times of Israel.

The strike followed a call between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump had earlier warned, “Do not drop those bombs. If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now.” In a later post, Trump said Israel would not attack Iran but would perform a “friendly plane wave.”

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel will not carry out further attacks on Iran and that all military aircraft involved in operations would return home, as the ceasefire between the two countries remains in effect.

"All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly 'Plane Wave' to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!" Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Iran and Israel should return to the ceasefire and reduce tensions in the Middle East, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, following US President Donald Trump's statement that both sides had violated the truce.

"I want the ceasefire to continue, and therefore, obviously, the sooner we get back to that, the better," Starmer told reporters as he arrived at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.

"We need to get back to that ceasefire, which is consistent with what I've been saying about de-escalation for quite some time now."

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire agreement, and claimed that Tehran’s nuclear program had been eliminated during the latest round of hostilities.

“Both sides broke the ceasefire,” Trump told reporters before leaving for the NATO summit in The Hague, referring to the US-brokered truce that was announced hours earlier and confirmed by both governments.

He did not specify which side acted first but added, “I didn’t like that Israel unloaded right after we agreed to a ceasefire.”

The remarks follow conflicting reports from Tel Aviv and Tehran over who initiated strikes after the ceasefire took effect. Israel said Iran launched ballistic missiles toward its territory, while Iran denied the accusation and said Israel continued to fire on its positions for more than an hour after the truce was supposed to begin.

Trump, who has taken credit for brokering the ceasefire, also made claims about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “Iran will never rebuild its nuclear program,” he said. “Their nuclear capacities are gone.”

Iran will not renounce its right to peaceful nuclear energy, its ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said on Tuesday during a session of the UN Conference on Disarmament.

Bahreini accused the United States and Israel of launching a “criminal” attack on Iran, based on what he called a distorted report by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He said the attack targeted not only Iran but also the global non-proliferation regime.