Donald Trump announced last night that Iran has agreed to a two-week ceasefire and will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran submitted a ten-point peace plan to end the war.
The US President posted on Truth Social: ‘I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,’ after earlier sparking doomsday fears when he threatened to wipe out its ‘entire civilization’ if it did not reopen the Strait.
Trump said that after talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he had been assured that Iran would agree ‘to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.’
‘This will be a double-sided ceasefire,’ Trump wrote.
‘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 long-term peace with Iran.’
In a later post, the US President hailed ‘a big day for world peace’ after agreeing to pause the attacks.
Iran has ‘had enough’ of the conflict, the US president said on Truth Social, and there will now be ‘lots of positive action’.
