The United States carried out a second day of military strikes against Iran hours after President Donald Trump told a NATO summit the ceasefire with Tehran had ended. A ceasefire is an agreement to halt fighting, temporary by nature and contingent on both sides holding. When a government declares one finished, it is signaling that its military operations are no longer on pause.
What Trump said and where he said it
Trump made the declaration at the NATO summit. He described the ceasefire with Tehran as "over," using that word directly. Tehran is the capital of Iran; in diplomatic usage, the name stands in for the Iranian government itself.
The setting matters. NATO summits bring together heads of state from member governments, which means allied leaders heard this announcement in the room, not through a readout filtered later by staff.
What a second day of strikes signals
Military action that extends into a second consecutive day differs from a one-time strike in one visible way: it suggests a sustained operation rather than a single response. The source stops there. It names no targets, describes no weapons or forces, and gives no assessment of what the strikes were meant to accomplish.
Readers should treat specific figures circulating elsewhere with care. Early coverage of active military operations tends to carry numbers and claims that later reporting revises. What the source confirms is the sequence: Trump's ceasefire declaration at the NATO summit came first, and the second round of strikes followed within hours.
What the source leaves unresolved
The source includes no response from Iran, no casualty count, no description of what the ceasefire originally covered, and no account of how long it had been in place. It also does not report whether any NATO members weighed in on Trump's announcement during the summit.
Trump's declaration, reported as a direct statement that the ceasefire was "over," is the last confirmed public statement in this account.