The president Donald Trump announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, after several days of attacks, during which there was even U.S. intervention to strike three nuclear facilities.

However, Iranian authorities denied having agreed to end the confrontation, and later acknowledged that they had agreed to a ceasefire.

The president Donald Trump stated on Monday, June 23, that the armed conflict had ended, which he dubbed the “twelve-day war”, and he anticipated that the agreement would take effect in the following hours, to give each side time to finish its current operations.

The agreement came days after the United States attacked three nuclear facilities, which heightened the risk that the armed conflict would spread across the Middle East. After the attack, Iran responded causing minor damage, for which Trump expressed gratitude to Iran for warning about its missile attack against the U.S. base at Al Udeid, in Qatar, in which no American or Qatari was injured.

However, he described Iran’s attack as a “very weak response” and boasted that 13 missiles were shot down before they could do harm. Trump used his message to call on Iran and also on Israel to “move forward with peace.”

This is what he wrote on his social media: “Iran has officially responded to our destruction of its nuclear facilities with a very weak response, something we expected and that we have countered with great effectiveness. Fourteen missiles have been fired: 13 were shot down and one was released, as it was heading in a non-threatening direction.”.

However, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied in the latest hours the existence of a ceasefire agreed with Israel, as announced by Trump, and stated that Iranian authorities would make a decision on this matter “later.”

“Up to now, there is no ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, as long as the Israeli regime ceases its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4:00 hours, we do not intend to continue our response afterward,” he announced, where he noted that “the final decision on halting our military operations will be taken later.”

Subsequently, he confirmed that the military operations “to punish Israel for its aggression” have ended at the scheduled time, and thanked the Iranian Armed Forces “that responded to any enemy attack until the last minute.”

Likewise, the head of Iranian diplomacy took the opportunity to reiterate that “Israel launched the war against Iran, not the other way around”, after June 13, when Israel launched a wave of attacks against nuclear targets in the central Asian country.

Araghchi has thus denied Trump’s statements about a “complete and total” ceasefire reached by the authorities of both countries and that would end what he has called “The Twelve Days’ War.”