Overview
- For the first time since the April truce, Iran and Israel traded ballistic missiles and airstrikes, a cycle that several outlets reported unfolded on Monday and that prompted air‑raid alerts in Israel and explosions in Iranian cities.
- The Israel Defense Forces said it intercepted incoming Iranian missiles with no reported injuries, and Israeli strikes were reported to have hit air‑defence sites and a petrochemical plant in Mahshahr that Israel linked to missile work.
- President Donald Trump publicly pressed both sides to stop shooting and personally intervened by phone, after which Iran and Israel each signalled they would halt strikes but warned they would resume if the other side breached terms.
- The exchanges widened the regional confrontation as Houthi forces in Yemen launched missiles toward Israel and threatened Red Sea shipping, while oil prices and regional trade routes reacted immediately to the fighting.
- Reports conflict over whether Israel coordinated its strikes with the United States, and that dispute, plus remaining gaps on nuclear verification, sanctions relief and frozen Iranian assets, leave negotiations and the ceasefire highly fragile.