{"id":45557,"date":"2026-04-08T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45557"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:53:16","slug":"trump-announces-two-week-ceasefire-as-iran-says-talks-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-announces-two-week-ceasefire-as-iran-says-talks-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Trump announces two-week ceasefire as Iran says talks to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters:<\/strong> President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that the U.S. had reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran ahead of a looming deadline, averting what the president previously described as an attack that would lead to the death of a \u201cwhole civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cWe received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump \u2014 who said the ceasefire was subject to Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 added that \u201calmost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran,\u201d but he said the two-week ceasefire period \u201cwill allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal came just hours after Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged Trump to extend the deadline for Iran by two weeks via a post on X. Sharif wrote that \u201cdiplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after Trump\u2019s announcement, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a statement that Iran would cease its defensive operations \u201cif attacks against Iran are halted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran\u2019s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The president threatened in a Tuesday morning social media post that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again\u201d if Iran did not reach a deal with the U.S. He had previously said opening the Strait of Hormuz is a \u201cvery big priority\u201d in the negotiations.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s escalation in rhetoric sparked worries that the U.S. or Israel could use nuclear weapons against Iran, but international leaders had signaled hope that the U.S. and Iran would reach an 11th-hour deal ahead of the 8 p.m. ET deadline.<\/p>\n

A White House official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive plans, told POLITICO that Israel has agreed to the two-week ceasefire. A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Washington declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Democrats were quick to condemn the threat, with House Democratic leadership calling for the House to return \u201cimmediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III\u201d in a joint statement. Republican lawmakers were largely silent on Trump\u2019s remarks, though, hoping the Trump administration would avert the worst-case scenario with a last-minute off-ramp.<\/p>\n

Some of America\u2019s closest allies, from Europe to the Gulf States, were cut out of the White House\u2019s thinking on Tuesday, much as they have been since the start of the war more than a month ago. They spent much of the day waiting to hear what would happen by Trump\u2019s 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to open the strait.<\/p>\n

Trump also threatened to strike Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure \u2014 including bridges, power plants and desalination plants \u2014 if Iran did not move to reopen the strait, elevating warnings from experts that the U.S. could violate international law in the ongoing war. POLITICO previously reported that the Pentagon was expanding a list of acceptable targets in Iran to include energy sites that serve both civilians and the military, giving the administration a possible way out of war crime accusations.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s closure of the strait, which facilitates the transit of roughly 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil supply, has sent fuel prices skyrocketing across Europe and the U.S., and Trump has repeatedly chided the U.S.\u2019 NATO allies for not offering their assistance in reopening the passage.<\/p>\n

He said last week that the war would not cease until the strait was reopened to traffic, adding that the U.S. would be \u201cblasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!\u201d until then.<\/p>\n

Despite his escalating threats, Trump insisted on Monday that Iranian officials were \u201cnegotiating, I think, in good faith\u201d with the U.S., although he did not specify with whom the U.S. was negotiating.<\/p>\n

The president also said he did not worry that his threats to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure could amount to war crimes, adding, \u201cI hope I don\u2019t have to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American-Israeli bombing campaign has, for the most part, spared the country\u2019s supply of electricity and fuel. But as frustrations grow at the White House over Iran\u2019s refusal to capitulate, the potential targets have increased.<\/p>\n

American and Israeli pilots have started conducting so-called dynamic strikes, which involve hunting for targets of opportunity instead of preplanned strikes. In one night alone, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late last month, the U.S. conducted more than 200 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that the U.S. had reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran ahead of a looming deadline, averting what the president previously described as an attack that would lead to the death of a \u201cwhole civilization.\u201d \u201cThe reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45559,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45557\/revisions\/45559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}