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And just like that, Donald Trump declared that it was over,
that the brief war involving Iran, Israel and the US was at an end.
And then, shortly before we came on air, declared in even more forthright terms...
that Iran and Israel don't know what the expletive they're doing.
We'll bring you some of Mr Trump's more broadcastable words in a moment.
But first, to get you up to the very fast pace of recent events, exactly 15 hours ago,
6 in the evening Washington time it was,
the President in his convention busting way made the announcement on social media... with the words,
congratulations to everyone, which is perhaps a strange way to address, among others,
the country which he just sent his military to bomb only two days before,
and which had fired a missile at an American base in the Gulf just hours previously.
Anyway,
Mr Trump went on to say that Israel and Iran had agreed what he called a complete and total ceasefire,
but then Israel accused Iran of violating that ceasefire,
saying that it had to shoot down incoming Iranian missiles today,
and was therefore going to hit back hard.
En route to the summit of the NATO military alliance, President Trump gave vent to his frustrations.