Tehran denies Israel's claims of ceasefire violation

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00:00With me here on set now is our international affairs editor, Andrew Hillier. Andrew, what is

00:04Iran saying on this then? Well, Stuart, Iranian media quoting state television in Iran is saying

00:10is denying those reports of a ceasefire violation. We've also heard in the last few minutes from

00:17Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Now, it came out with very much fighting talk indeed,

00:24claiming to have imposed a halt to the war on Israel. So not referring directly to those

00:30reports of a ceasefire violation. It did, however, say that it had that it had no trust in the words

00:36of its enemy. It said it would keep its finger on the trigger just in case. So it is, Stuart,

00:42still very unclear what has happened here. You know, Iran clearly signaled throughout this conflict

00:48that it wanted an off ramp. I think that was most clear yesterday when it fired just a handful of

00:52missiles at the US air base in Qatar, clearly signalling to the Trump administration that it

00:58was interested in de-escalation. It is common, Stuart, to see these kind of ceasefire violations

01:05in the early stages of a ceasefire, particularly in the first few hours. But this does indeed throw

01:11doubt onto the process at what is clearly a very uncertain time for people in both Iran and Israel.

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