US president at one point called Benjamin Netanyahu to order him to scale down an Israeli airstrike
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Middle East crisis – live updates
The shaky truce between Israel and Iran appeared to be holding on Tuesday evening after an extraordinary day in which a furious Donald Trump at one point personally intervened by calling Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to scale down an Israeli airstrike.
In a televised address late on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister hailed a “historic victory” claiming that Israel had “thwarted Iran’s nuclear project” but it remained unclear whether the deeply buried Fordow nuclear site had been destroyed.
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