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There is wide uncertainty astir whether a ceasefire successful the little war betwixt Israel and Iran volition hold, adjacent aft it was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump said helium was "not happy" with Israel and Iran aft some nations engaged successful attacks connected each different pursuing his announcement of the truce.
"THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!" Trump wrote successful an aboriginal morningTruth Social post.
CNBC reporters are covering the Middle East struggle unrecorded connected aerial and online, reporting from Washington, D.C., London, Dubai, San Francisco, Singapore and Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Oil prices autumn sharply aft Trump says China tin bargain lipid from Iran
FILE PHOTO: An Israeli state platform, controlled by a U.S.-Israeli vigor group, is seen successful the Mediterranean sea, immoderate 15 miles (24 km) westbound of Israel's larboard metropolis of Ashdod, successful this record representation taken February 25, 2013.
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Oil prices person fallen sharply present that Trump says China tin support buying lipid from Iran, a motion that the U.S. is easing its maximum unit run connected the Islamic Republic successful the aftermath of a ceasefire with Israel.
Global benchmark Brent fell $4.14, oregon 5.79%, to $67.34 per tube by 11:55 a.m. ET. U.S. crude oil was past down $3.97, oregon 5.79%, to $65.54 a barrel. Prices closed 7% little connected Monday arsenic the lipid marketplace stake that the struggle successful the Middle East was winding down.
"China tin present proceed to acquisition Oil from Iran," Trump said successful a station connected his societal media level Truth Social. "Hopefully, they volition beryllium purchasing plentifulness from the U.S., also. It was my Great Honor to marque this happen!"
— Spencer Kimball
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls U.S. onslaught connected Iran 'a mistake'
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks aft gathering with the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs astatine the Quai d'Orsay successful Paris, connected Jan. 8, 2025.
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Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling the U.S.'s play rocket onslaught connected Iran atomic sites "unwise and unnecessary" successful a caller New York Times op-ed.
"Now that it's done, I precise overmuch anticipation it succeeded," Blinken, who served nether erstwhile President Joe Biden, wrote.
"I tin lone anticipation that we inflicted maximum harm — harm that gives the president the leverage helium needs to yet present the woody helium has truthful acold failed to achieve," helium wrote.
– Laya Neelakandan
Former U.S. Defense official: Iran-Israel struggle is 'far from over'
A erstwhile Defense Department authoritative says the adjacent signifier successful the Iran-Israel struggle volition beryllium astatine the negotiating table.
Michèle Flournoy, WestExec Advisors co-founder and managing spouse and erstwhile Under Secretary of Defense for Policy successful the Obama administration, said the absorption present should beryllium connected putting unit connected some sides.
The cardinal is to measure however overmuch harm was really done to Iran's atomic programs and find whether Iran volition travel to the negotiating array "more earnestly than it did before," she told CNBC's Squawk Box.
"I recognize that we each privation to suspiration a large suspiration of alleviation contiguous with the ceasefire, but this is acold from implicit arsenic yet," she added.
– Laya Neelakandan
Classified Iran briefings for Congress postponed until Thursday
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks astatine a property league pursuing the U.S. Senate Republicans' play argumentation luncheon connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025.
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Two classified briefings for Congress connected Iran that were scheduled for this day person been postponed until Thursday, NBC News' Frank Thorp reports.
The determination to postpone the briefings comes arsenic a fragile ceasefire appears to beryllium taking hold, and some Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are successful the Netherlands with Trump to be the NATO summit.
Thorp notes this volition beryllium the archetypal classified briefing since the U.S. strikes past play to which each members of Congress are invited, not conscionable a tiny radical of quality committee leaders and enactment leadership.
— Christina Wilkie
Trump claims some Iran and Israel wanted to 'stop the war, equally'
President Donald Trump speaks to property earlier his departure astatine the White House to way The Hague, Netherlands connected June 24, 2025, successful Washington D.C. to be NATO Summit successful Netherlands.
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Trump is claiming successful a caller Truth Social post that Israel and Iran some desired a ceasefire aft much than a week of exchanging rocket fire.
"Both Israel and Iran wanted to halt the War, equally! It was my large grant to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!"
While U.S. bombing did important harm to 3 atomic facilities, it did not destruct Iran's enriched uranium. U.S. quality officials person admitted successful caller days they bash not cognize wherever overmuch of that worldly is being stored.
— Christina Wilkie
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