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United States President Donald Trump announced early on April 8 that he is pushing off a major bombing campaign in Iran for two weeks and that Washington has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Tehran, subject to the latter reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. eastern time deadline for Iran to reopen Hormuz and agree to a U.S. proposal for ending the war was set to expire.
“This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,” Trump writes
Following Trump’s announcement, The New York Times quoted three Iranian officials as saying that Tehran has accepted Pakistan’s proposal for a two-week ceasefire.
The report said that alongside Pakistan’s push for a ceasefire, China intervened at the last minute “to show flexibility and defuse tensions,” while also noting concerns about the economic fallout if Trump went ahead with his threats of U.S. strikes on Iranian energy sites and key infrastructure.
The Iranian officials cited in the report also said that new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei had signed off on the ceasefire.
This was officially confirmed soon after in a statement issued by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on behalf of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
“For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations,” the statement adds.
Separately, Iranian state media quoted the Supreme National Security Council confirming that talks with the U.S. will begin on April 10 in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, adding that the negotiations do not signal the end of the war.
Iran said that the talks, which may last up to 15 days and can be extended by agreement, aim to finalize details of its 10-point proposal, which includes provisions on transit through the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions relief, and withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from regional bases.
According to Iranian state media, the 10-point plan would also require Washington to accept its uranium enrichment program.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also announced that in addition to Tehran and Washington “their allies” agreed to “an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere.”
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement welcoming the ceasefire between the U.S.and Iran, while stressing that it does not cover Lebanon.
In addition, a report by AFP confirmed that the two-week ceasefire plan includes allowing both Iran and Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz. A regional official told the news agency that the Islamic Republic will use the money it raises for reconstruction.
Trump later told AFP that Iran’s uranium will be “perfectly taken care of” under a two-week ceasefire deal with Tehran, without providing any details.
“That will be perfectly taken care of or I wouldn’t have settled,” Trump said in a telephone interview when asked about what would happen to Iran’s enriched uranium.
Amid all of these developments, it was reported that the U.S. military halted operations against Iran. However, missiles were launched from the Islamic Republic at Israel, wounding at least two people in the south of the country. Israeli strikes also hit Iranian targets, in addition to targets of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, there were reports of more attacks on Gulf countries, specifically Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. accepting to discuss Iran’s 10-point plan is without any doubt a major victory for the Islamic Republic, which could also use the two-week ceasefire to prepare for a possible return to fighting.
That’s being said, multiple reports indicate that Israel is not happy with the deal, and it is possible that it will attempt to sabotage it.
Trump has shown willingness to back down from such deals before, but the situation with Iran may be too complex to allow for this. The U.S. took some serious losses and any return to fighting will likely require a serious escalation, like ground operations.
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islamic republic of israel! oh that is great one!
newking israel!
these videos are from occupied palestine. so called “israel”.
satanyahoo not happy? that is good.
who cares ? highly likely the c*nt’s dead !
but but but but but trumpstein said the straight of hormmuz does not matter to the ussa……baaaaaaahahahahahahah!!!
its only sounds, like when adolf hitler rothschild was in his top form, and rant with outstanding eyes 😂 they must save the “nuclear” hoax to mean pleasure killing from nazis. force them from the middle east, concentrate them on the island of death and destruction, and extinct the christians there.
one more report that iran have get sarmat, satan, missiles from russia. then they soon can start to count who has the longest…sorry, most missiles. and join the ilk of einstein, which reduced right and wrong to a simple mathematical problem. you only count missiles, or weigh dinosauries 😂 use them, fucking clowns 🤡 if they exist, you can get rid of both technocrats and politicians, and “un”.
why would you ever trust ✡️ and their golems
exactly! that’s just a “declared” ceasefire, just mere words. iran should know it better: it’s just buying time.
iran knows full well that washington and israel cannot be trusted, ever. the sleeping zombies of the west just need proof. iran laid the trap, and the zionists will fall right into it by breaking the ceasefire. having said that, the west likely thinks it has laid a trap for iran – they will try to blame iran for the violation, but they will be caught out as always. and people have wised up and don’t trust the west any more anyway.
what a trap: whith hundreds or thousands of killed civilists?
fyi: if iran didn’t agree to a ceasefire with their own 10 point plan then it would have been a pr win for the zionists who set that trap for iran. hence iran had no choice but to accept. but they knew it was a ruse. so they effectively turned it back on the zionist west. and of course they fell right into it. it’s stretching it a bit to infer that iran’s reversing the trap led to hundreds killed.
how many civil life costs a pr-point? are you bargain with civilists life?
you can trust gangster trump he has stellar record of keeping his word
israel has already self-excluded themselves from the proto-deal. unless trump either forces them or abandons them, nothing will change.
ok, let’s make a new deal.
last deal we opened hormuz, abandoned lebanon…
what we can gift them in a new deal? maybe your wife?
this is spitting and slapping in the face of the people.
ghalibaf fell for usa’s trap. it’s always close before victory before iran draws back. the attacks will restart in 2 weeks at the latest. iran just gave them time to analyze the war, reorganize and rearm. read more about the antichrist: north-afghanistan.blogspot.con
wtf you are on? they had whole fucking 9 months at l e a s t to analyze and reorganize.
you clearly don’t understand how modern warfare works. in the 12 day war iran didn’t unleash all its capabilities. now israel puts the experience of 40 days war into its ai. also israel rearms for the next war. you seem to be not aware of shiite prophecies.
dajjal coming from khorasan… ussa occupation of afghanistan had 20 years to do it, but they failed. i would not put much faith in shitrali “a.i”. they are tough only against women and children
i disagree with you here. the narration say: dajjal is from a jewish mother. it is mora a system and than a person.
sorry about my ignorance about what dajjal are, i shall look it up, especially since i like “thousand and one night”. but “jewish” are exclusive a system, not a ethnicity, not a “race”. 2000 years, and rule by psychopaths have established that. so you mean that the mother can be russian, or german, or anybody that worship genocide ? the system of genocide are preached in the bible. 1939 was after year 0.
true. but they are sneaky, break a leg and a arm on them, and they will propagate victory.
you mean the christians. but you have probably never hear about the genocide in north america ? or their bridge head in palestine ? a christian and a nazi are exactly the same thing, thats why russia kill slavs, and are ridiculous. “un” have perform the opposite to international law under its whole existence, and top it with mass murder in the hospitals.
iran should’ve had told those honkey tonkey white racists fucks hell no to a ceasefire we all know usa doesn’t honor their word
as expected the ugly americunt feminized bully always shows cowardice—excvept when we are in tel aviv gay bars
dump will now regroup his israelis and wait for the election to pass. if the council is lucky, the democrats will still win congress and the senate. since russia’s betrayal of syria, iran is in line for destruction. the solution that has now been made is only temporary, because the elections in the house of representatives and the senate must pass without destreoying one third of the economy. then it won’t matter if oil goes over three hundred dollars and two-thirds of the workers are jobless
you think iran doesn’t know this. the average iranian is more informed about these matters then the average american.
trump blinked first. hehehe
they both blinked. you do understand that iran has agreed to never have a nuclear weapon and must give up their uranium?
was giving up uranium part of iran’s 10 point plan that trumpy pretended to agree to? i don’t think so. not sure where you got your info from.
this ceasefire will not last. you think the amerikunts and jews are pro peace? they are pro piss. just re-arming becuz shitrael ran out of defenses, the jew sewer rats pissed themselves and they needed some fresh air
“israel” and “us” erased at least as much as nazi germany, but its probably better to erase them from the surface. russia have done nothing for to end the use of fake “nukes” as a tool for free mass murder. erase the biblical genociders, one after the other. good riddance.
probably because a mentally insane rules the mentally insane in the source to nazi germany. and russia are capitalistic this week, and cant speak about root causes, trick movie in 9/11, and mass murder in the hospitals.
ask the american indians how their dealings with us government turned out
exactly. i try to remind about that as often as possible. exactly as the “americans” murder by pure inertia, its common practice to steal pensions in sweden, and burn tipis for women not greedy enough. greed in both farmer cannibals and lapp cannibals are used by the state, which greed have reach the mass murder in hospitals stage.
we americunts are transgender cowards–as usual expect inferior species americunt humiliation
may not be a good idea to let the jooz and their goy whores off the hook and give them a respite when they were on the ropes. they are incapable of honouring any agreement they make. no ceasefire with that lowlife will last 5 minutes.
script writers playing with civilization and world markets. very offensive gang of misinformation specialists. paid liars and hypnotist spell casters
iran, please finish the job!