Tracy Mumford

Though, as of this morning, there have been a number of strikes reported across the Persian Gulf.

raising questions about whether news of the deal has reached all corners of Iran's decentralized military.

Israel, which has been carrying out strikes on Iran alongside the U.S., said it also supports the agreement, but explicitly noted that the ceasefire doesn't apply to Lebanon, where it has been attacking the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia and trying to seize territory.

When it comes to Trump, who called yesterday, quote, a big day for world peace, the whole head-spinning situation appears to be the latest example of a kind of playbook that he has come to rely on, of making increasingly drastic threats before securing some kind of deal that he can claim as a victory.

Times White House correspondent David Sanger says that while the war has dealt crushing blows to Iran's leadership and military, the major points of tension between Iran and the U.S.

remain.

David has more on the last-minute ceasefire on today's episode of The Daily.

Meanwhile, The Times has learned new details about President Trump's decision to go to war in the first place.

My colleagues Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan conducted extensive interviews on the condition of anonymity to get the inside story of the closed-door meetings and internal White House discussions that led up to Trump's go order.

They found three key things.

First, there was a crucial meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February.

Netanyahu flew to Washington and sat down with Trump and his team in the Situation Room at the White House, and he pitched Trump on war.

He laid out what he portrayed as a near-certain plan for victory.

The whole thing would take a couple weeks, retaliation would be minimal, and the Strait of Hormuz would stay open.

Netanyahu and his team said that Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, would also spark an uprising inside Iran as a final blow to take down the regime.

Sounds good to me, Trump said.

The next step was for U.S.

analysts to assess the plan Israel had presented, which they scrambled to do overnight.

They reported back that parts of the pitch were achievable.

They could kill the