 "US President Donald Trump said a ‘complete and total’ ceasefire had been achieved between the two nations. Reuters")
US President Donald Trump on Monday surprised many by taking to social media to announce the end of what he called the “12-day war” between Iran and Israel.
Trump said a ‘complete and total’ ceasefire had been achieved between the two nations.
But what does brokering a ceasefire mean for Trump? Will he get a Nobel for it?
Let’s take a closer look:
What does brokering a ceasefire mean for Trump?
It depends whether or not the ceasefire between Israel and Iran ultimately holds.
Thus far, the ceasefire seems to be holding – though not without incident.
Israel on Tuesday accused Iran of aiming missiles at it – which Tehran denied.
Israel said it had intercepted two missiles from Iran.
Iranian state TV claimed Israel had killed a high-profile nuclear scientist, Mohammad Reza Sedighi Saber, at his father-in-law’s residence in northern Iran in a pre-dawn airstrike.
One of those attacks killed a high-profile nuclear scientist, Mohammad Reza Sedighi Saber, at his father-in-law’s residence in northern Iran, Iranian state TV reported.
Trump on Tuesday in an angry outburst accused both sides of violating the ceasefire.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f—- they’re doing,” Trump said.
However, he reserved his harshest critique for ally Israel.
“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly “Plane Wave” to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, t he Ceasefire is in effect!” Trump wrote on social media.
It does mean one important thing for Trump – it got him yet another Nobel Prize nomination.
Republican Congressman Buddy Carter put Trump up for the prestigious prize for getting the ceasefire deal done between Israel and Iran.
“President Trump’s leadership helped end the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and prevented the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet,” Carter said to the Nobel Committee. Carter claimed the US President “was instrumental in forging a “swift agreement that many believed to be impossible.”
He said Trump’s actions “exemplify the very ideals that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war, and the advancement of international harmony.”
Trump is obsessed with the idea of winning a Nobel – and has been since Obama won it.
“I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do,” Trump wrote on social media on Friday.
“I should have gotten it four or five times… They won’t give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals,” Trump added later.
Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Prize at least three times this year.
Pakistan last month nominated Trump for putting a lid on tensions with India with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar praising his “decisive diplomatic intervention”.
Will Trump get a Nobel prize for it?
That’s extremely unlikely.
Thus far just three US Presidents have been given a Nobel Prize – Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Barack Obama in 2009.
Being nominated for a Nobel Prize doesn’t mean anything in itself.
Practically anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Prize by anyone.
Hundreds of people are nominated every year for the Nobel Prize.
There are currently well over 300 people on the list for 2025.
The committee then makes a shortlist of those people and announces the winner in October.
But that hasn’t stopped Trump’s family and allies are campaigning for him to get the Nobel Prize.
“Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Donald Trump,” Don Jr wrote on social media.
“This is what separates @POTUS from dumb leaders of the past,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe added. “He had an objective in America’s interest, accomplished it without losing a single American life, but he doesn’t keep going and risk the 2nd or 3rd order effects of another regime change war. Nobel Peace Prize worthy.”
With inputs from agencies