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.
