Explosions in Tehran despite Trump ordering Israel to preserve truce

Explosions rang out in Tehran on June 24 despite US President Donald Trump saying Israel had called off air strikes at his command to preserve an hours-old ceasefire.

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Two witnesses reached by telephone in the Iranian capital said they heard two loud explosions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that Israel struck a radar site near Tehran in what it said was retaliation for Iranian missiles fired 3 1/2 hours after the ceasefire was due to begin.

It said Israel decided to refrain from further attacks following a call between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Trump, but did not explicitly say whether the strike on the radar site took place before or after they spoke.

Mr Trump, en route to a Nato summit in the Netherlands, said Israel had called off its attack, after he rebuked Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary outburst at an ally whose military campaign he joined two days earlier.

"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!" Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

That followed a post in which he said: "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it, it is a major violation.