{"id":207004,"date":"2026-04-09T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:34:22","slug":"us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire as Tehran says it will reopen strait of Hormuz – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US president abandons threat for Iran to surrender or face destruction with last-minute intervention led by Pakistan
Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a>
Iran war ceasefire announcement \u2013 what we know so far<\/a>
Explainer: What is in Iran\u2019s 10-point ceasefire plan and will the US agree to it?<\/a>
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire on Tuesday evening, which included a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz, after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald Trump<\/a> for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction.
Trump\u2019s announcement of the ceasefire agreement came less than two hours before the US president\u2019s self-imposed 8pm Eastern time deadline to bomb Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges in a move that legal scholars, as well as officials from numerous countries and the pope, had warned could constitute war crimes.
Just hours earlier, Trump had written on Truth Social: \u201cA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will.\u201d American B-52 bombers were reported to be en route to Iran before the ceasefire agreement was announced.
But by Tuesday evening, Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement had been mediated through Pakistan, whose prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had requested the two-week peace in order to \u201callow diplomacy to run its course\u201d.
Trump wrote in a post that \u201csubject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks\u201d.
In a separate post later, the US president called Tuesday \u201ca big day for world peace\u201d on a social media post, claiming that Iran had \u201chad enough\u201d. He said the US would be \u201chelping with the traffic buildup\u201d in the strait of Hormuz and that \u201cbig money will be made\u201d as Iran begins reconstruction.
For several hours afterwards, Israel\u2019s position or agreement with the deal was unclear. But just before midnight ET, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, said Israel backed the US ceasefire with Iran but that the deal did not cover fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon. His office said Israel also supported US efforts to ensure Iran no longer posed a nuclear or missile threat.
Pakistan\u2019s prime minister had previously said that the agreed-upon ceasefire covered \u201ceverywhere including Lebanon\u201d.
The ceasefire process was clouded in uncertainty after Iran released two different versions of the 10-point plan intended to be the basis for negotiations, and which Trump said was a \u201cworkable basis on which to negotiate\u201d.
In the version released in Farsi, Iran included the phrase \u201cacceptance of enrichment\u201d for its nuclear program. But for reasons that remain unclear, that phrase was missing in English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists.
Pakistan has invited the US and Iran to talks in Islamabad on Friday. Tehran said it would attend, but Washington has yet to publicly accept the invitation.
In a telephone call with Agence France-Presse, Trump said he believed China had persuaded Iran to negotiate, and said Tehran\u2019s enriched uranium would be \u201cperfectly taken care of\u201d, without providing more detail.
In the two-week ceasefire, Trump said, he believed the US and Iran could negotiate over the 10-point proposal that would allow an armistice to be \u201cfinalized and consummated\u201d.
\u201cThis will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!\u201d he continued. \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
Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, issued a statement<\/a> shortly after Trump\u2019s announcement saying Iran had agreed to the ceasefire. \u201cFor a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordinating with Iran\u2019s Armed Forces,\u201d he wrote.
Oil prices dived, stocks surged<\/a> and the dollar was knocked back on Wednesday as a two-week Middle East ceasefire sparked a relief rally, fueled by hopes that oil and gas flows through the strait of Hormuz could resume.
Despite the provisional ceasefire, attacks continued across the region in the hours after Trump\u2019s announcement. Before the deadline, airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran, and the US hit military infrastructure on Kharg Island, a key hub for Iranian oil production.
The sudden about-face will allow Trump to step back as the US war in Iran has dragged on for five weeks with little sign that Tehran is ready to surrender or release its hold on the strait, a conduit for a fifth of the global energy supply, where traffic has slowed to a trickle.
Trump had earlier rejected the 10-point plan as \u201cnot good enough\u201d but the president has set deadlines before and allowed them to pass over the five weeks of the conflict. Yet he insisted on Tuesday the ensuing hours would be \u201cone of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World\u201d unless \u201csomething revolutionarily wonderful\u201d happened, with \u201cless radicalized minds\u201d in Iran\u2019s leadership.
News of the provisional ceasefire deal was welcomed but with a note of caution elsewhere.
Iraq\u2019s foreign ministry called for \u201cserious and sustainable dialogue\u201d between the US and Iran<\/a> \u201cto address the root causes of the disputes\u201d, while the German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said the deal \u201cmust be the crucial first step towards lasting peace, for the consequences of the war continuing would be incalculable\u201d.
In Australia, the government warned that the latest developments would not necessarily mean the fuel crisis is over.<\/a> Oil prices fell as traders bet that the reopening of the strait of Hormuz would help fuel supply resume, but the energy minister, Chris Bowen, told reporters Australians should \u201cnot get ahead of ourselves\u201d.
He said: \u201cPeople shouldn\u2019t take today\u2019s progress and expect prices to fall. We welcome progress, but I don\u2019t think we can say the [strait of Hormuz is] now open.\u201d
A spokesperson for New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister, Winston Peters, welcomed the \u201cencouraging news\u201d but noted \u201cthere remains significant important work to be done to secure a lasting ceasefire\u201d.
Japan said it expected the move to result in a \u201cfinal agreement\u201d after Washington and Tehran begin talks on Friday. Describing the ceasefire as a \u201cpositive move\u201d, the chief cabinet secretary, Minoru Kihara, said Tokyo wanted to see a de-escalation on the ground in the region, adding that the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, was seeking talks with the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
A temporary end to hostilities will come as a relief to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for about 90% of its crude oil imports, most of which is transported through the strait of Hormuz.
South Korea\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs said it hoped \u201cnegotiations between the two sides will be successfully concluded and that peace and stability in the Middle East will be restored at an early date\u201d, as well as wishes for \u201cfree and safe navigation of all vessels through the strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n

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