{"id":50415,"date":"2026-06-29T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50415"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:45:21","slug":"iran-and-us-agree-to-halt-attacks-and-renew-talks-u-s-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/iran-and-us-agree-to-halt-attacks-and-renew-talks-u-s-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and US agree to halt attacks and renew talks, U.S. official says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters\u00a0 :\u00a0 Iran and the United States \u200bagreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and renew talks regarding their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said on Sunday, raising \u200chopes of saving an interim peace deal that was under pressure from days of tit-for-tat strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnical talks are slated to continue ozzzn all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” the official said, referring to the 14-point memorandum of understanding that was agreed on June 17 under which the strait would be re-opened for traffic.<\/p>\n

Axios, which first reported the cessation \u200bof hostilities, citing a senior U.S. official, said talks would resume Tuesday in Qatar.<\/p>\n

A return to diplomacy would follow several days of strikes and counterstrikes since \u200ban Iranian projectile hit a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, with both the U.S. and Iran accusing the \u2060other of breaking an interim ceasefire that was agreed to on June 17.<\/p>\n

Iran launched missiles and drones at U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain early on Sunday, shortly \u200bafter President Donald Trump threatened that the Islamic Republic would cease to exist if it did not honor the agreement to end the war.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Israel said on Sunday it had once \u200bagain struck Iran-backed armed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, destroying underground infrastructure used by the group in a village in southern Lebanon. That came after another strike on Saturday, which closely followed its latest ceasefire deal with Lebanon on Friday. Iran says the fighting in Lebanon must end if the wider agreement is to stick.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military said earlier it had struck Iran again, hours after a tanker was hit in \u200bthe Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy shipping route, which Tehran has largely closed for most of the conflict.<\/p>\n

“There may come a point when we are no \u200blonger able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” Trump said on social media, before the Axios report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters\u00a0 :\u00a0 Iran and the United States \u200bagreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and renew talks regarding their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said on Sunday, raising \u200chopes of saving an interim peace deal that was under pressure from days of tit-for-tat strikes. \u201cTechnical talks are slated to continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415"}],"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=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50416,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions\/50416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}