Trump-Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, plan to open Strait of Hormuz

“We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region,” Sharif wrote in an X post.

Both the U.S. and Iran framed the development as a win.

Trump, in his post announcing the two-week delay, claimed the U.S. had agreed to halt its planned attacks because “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.”

“We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,” Trump wrote.

“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,” he wrote.

Iran’s Mehr News Agency later Tuesday posted a statement from the secretariat of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council declaring that the U.S. “has accepted these principles as the basis for negotiations and has surrendered to the will of the Iranian people.”

“If the surrender of the enemy in the field becomes a decisive political achievement in the negotiations, we will celebrate this great historical victory together, otherwise we will fight side by side in the field until all the demands of the Iranian nation are achieved,” read a translation of the statement.

Iran will hold negotiations with the U.S. in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, for two weeks beginning in the coming days, according to the statement.

Iran’s 10-point proposal includes withdrawing U.S. combat forces from all regional bases, lifting all sanctions, releasing Iranian assets frozen abroad and full payment of Iran’s war-related damages. It would also establish a protocol for controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump, on Monday, said a ceasefire proposal put forward by Iran was “not good enough.” It was not immediately clear what in the intervening hours led him to accept Iran’s proposal as a “workable basis” for negotiations.

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