In a message to the nation on the official IRNA news agency, on Tuesday, Pezeshkian said: ‘Today, after the heroic resistance of our great nation, whose determination makes history, we are witnessing the establishment of a truce and the ending of this 12-day war imposed by the adventurism and provocation’.

Israel has said that its war, which began on 13 June, was aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, an ambition Tehran has long denied holding.