President Donald Trump declared ‘victory’ after both the US and Iranian officials agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal that would see the Middle Eastern country reopen the Strait of Hormuz – with Israeli officials also jumping on board under one condition.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and that it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said his country supports the ceasefire deal with Iran – but noted that it does not extend to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Trump announced the ceasefire on social media, saying he was holding off on his threatened attacks on Iranian bridges, power plants and other civilian targets as part of the ceasefire, after previously warning that a ‘whole civilization will die.’
He also said Iran has proposed a ‘workable’ 10-point peace plan that could help end the war launched by the U.S. and Israel in February.
‘Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated,’ Trump wrote.
The president later called the deal a ‘total and complete victory’ for the US and wrote on social media that it was a ‘big day for world peace,’ as he insisted to the AFP that Iran’s uranium will be ‘perfectly taken care of’ under the deal, without offering any details.
But Iran’s 10-point plan, announced by state TV, said that the US has agreed to: guarantee not to repeat its ‘aggression’ against Iran, the continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of [uranium] enrichment, lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, termination of all resolutions of the [UN] Security Council and International Atomic Energy Agency, payment of compensation to Iran, withdrawal of US combat forces from the region, and the cessation of war on all fronts, including against the ‘Islamic resistance of Lebanon’.
