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Trump agrees to suspend bombing of Iran for two weeks
Donald Trump has announced that he will suspend his threatened bombing of Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges for two weeks.
In a post on Truth Social he says that it is conditional on Iran reopening the strait of Hormuz calling it a double sided ceasefire. He goes on to say that he has received a workable ceasefire proposal from Iran.
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 Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”
We’ll bring you more as it comes in.
Key events
Attacks are continuing across the Middle East. Missile alerts have sounded in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait, despite the US suspending its escalating attacks on Iran and agreeing to enter into talks.
Israel warned at least two rounds of missiles had been fired by Iran since Trump’s statement. Blasts were heard in Jerusalem and Jericho in the occupied West Bank, AFP correspondents said.
Pakistan says all parties have agreed to an immediate ceasefire
Pakistani prime minister Shebaz Sharif has announced that Iran, the US and their allies have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon.
Sharif has been a key figure in attempting to reach a diplomatic solution between the two warring parties. On Tuesday he requested that Donald Trump delay his planned escalation in attacks against Iran.
In his statement, Sharif invited delegations to Islamabad on “Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.”
It’s now more than an hour since Donald Trump announced he was suspending his escalated bombing campaign, but attacks continue to be reported across the region.
Israel has said it has detected an incoming Iranian missile barrage – the second since Trump’s announcement.
Meanwhile missile alerts are sounding in the United Arab Emirates.
Proposal to the US includes condition that Iran will continue uranium enrichment
Iran’s supreme national security council has said that the ten-point proposal sent to the United States included a condition that Iran would continue its enrichment of Uranium.
The security council said that Iran had been victorious and claimed that the US had accepted all of Iran’s ten point plan.
There has been no confirmation of that from the US side and Trump himself merely called the plan “workable.”
However Democratic senator Chris Murphy he leapt on those comments from Iran, telling CNN “who knows if any of that is true, but if this agreement gives Iran the right to control the strait that is cataclysmic for the world.”
It is just stunning that that’s where we have gotten to, that Donald Trump took a military action that has apparently, at least for the time being, given Iran control over a critical waterway that they did not have control over, before the war began.
What an era, what a miscalculation.”
Minutes before Donald Trump announced he was suspending his plan to bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure, two civilians, one of them an eight-year-old child, were killed in Baghdad by a projectile crashing into their home.
“Three other civilians, including a woman, were wounded” in the western Amiriya district of the Iraqi capital, according to a source, speaking to the AFP news agency.
Passage through strait of Hormuz allowed for two weeks ‘under Iranian management’
Iran’s foreign minister has said passage through the strait of Hormuz will be allowed for the next 2 weeks under Iranian military management.
Abbas Araqchi also said that Iran would halt its attacks, if attacks against it stop.
Donald Trump has for weeks been demanding that Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz, through which up to a fifth of global oil transits through. The closure has sent energy prices rising, causing chaos for the world economy.
Iranian state media says US talks ‘do not mean end of war’
Iranian media is reporting that talks with the US do not amount to the end of the war.
Iran will only accept the war’s conclusion once details are finalised in line with the ten-point peace plan, state media is reporting.
According to state media, the ten-point proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has in the past rejected.
Among them are controlled transit through strait of Hormuz coordinated with Iranian armed forces and withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases.
The plan would also require the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, payment of full compensation to Iran and release of all frozen Iranian assets.
Iranian state media says talks will be held with the US on 10 April
Iranian state media has said negotiations with the US will be held in Islamabad to finalise details of an agreement, with the aim of “confirming Iran’s battlefield achievements”.
Talks will begin on Friday 10 April and may be extended, state media reported.
Iran’s supreme security council submitted the 10-point proposal to the United States via Pakistan.
The announcement on state TV was reportedly accompanied by a graphic flashing: “Trump’s humiliating retreat from anti-Iran rhetoric” and “Trump accepts Iran’s terms for ending the war”.
Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro has said Trump has taken the best option available, after agreeing to suspend his deadline to target Iranian infrastructure by two weeks.
This was the only plausible way to avoid an escalation that could have unleashed massive destruction of civilian infrastructure in Iran and in the Gulf states, and sent the global economic crisis into long-term overdrive.
Even as Trump announces the outlines of a ceasefire agreement, Israel’s military has warned that Iran is firing missiles toward it.
The warning came just minutes after Trump said he had agreed to suspend a devastating attack on Iran by two weeks and was ready for a ceasefire in the war if Tehran completely reopens the vital strait of Hormuz.
The [Israeli army] identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat.”
Blasts were heard from Jerusalem and Jericho on the occupied West Bank, AFP correspondents said.
The Israeli military told people in the areas affected by the incoming missile warnings to seek safety in bomb.
CNN is reporting that Israel has also agreed to a temporary ceasefire.
The broadcaster quoted a senior White House official as saying “Israel has agreed to also suspend its bombing campaign while negotiations continue.”
The New York Times is reporting that Iran has accepted Pakistan’s two-week cease-fire proposal following frantic diplomatic efforts.
The newspaper quotes Iranian officials as saying the ceasefire was approved by the new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
Here’s that statement from the US president in full:
Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! 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 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. 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. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Trump agrees to suspend bombing of Iran for two weeks
Donald Trump has announced that he will suspend his threatened bombing of Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges for two weeks.
In a post on Truth Social he says that it is conditional on Iran reopening the strait of Hormuz calling it a double sided ceasefire. He goes on to say that he has received a workable ceasefire proposal from Iran.
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 Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”
We’ll bring you more as it comes in.
Diplomats are frantically working to reach a deal before Donald Trump’s deadline to Iran passes, with Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty holding talks with his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar late on Tuesday.
A statement from the Egyptian foreign ministry said they had discussed joint efforts to reach “understandings” between the US and Iran to stop fighting.
Pakistan and Egypt have emerged as key intermediaries, with Islamabad hosting a meeting recently to discuss regional de-escalation and proposals to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
A personal envoy of UN secretary general Antonio Guterres plans to visit Iran as part of his efforts to encourage an end to the Iran war, but his travel plans will depend on security and logistics, a UN source has told Reuters.
Jean Arnault, a veteran UN diplomat Guterres named as his envoy on the conflict last month, headed to the Middle East on Monday.
UN rights chief Volker Turk has decried the “incendiary rhetoric” in the Middle East war, warning that deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure was “a war crime”.
The day so far
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Donald Trump issued a genuinely shocking – and widely condemned – threat that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran doesn’t capitulate to his demands by 8pm ET. As the world waits to find out how far Trump is willing to go on his threat – which, if carried out, could amount to war crimes – the White House earlier said that, “Only the president knows where things stand and what he will do.” It later said the US president was “aware” of a proposal (from Pakistan) to extend his deadline by two weeks and that “a response will come”.
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As Trump has threatened to bomb Iran’s critical infrastructure, including bridges, power plants, and electrical and desalinisation facilities, the Pentagon has prepared options for him that include targets that are used for both military and civilian purposes, NBC News reported, citing two US officials. Per that report: “Targeting infrastructure that is considered ‘dual use’ could allow the administration to argue the US is hitting military targets and avoid the technical definition of a war crime.”
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The top US Senate Democrat, called Trump an “extremely sick person” in response to the president’s post. “Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is,” Chuck Schumer said.
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But some of the most forceful backlash has come from inside Trump’s own coalition. A number of far‑right commentators who once formed the bedrock of his base have broken with him over the war and his threats to strike bridges and power plants. Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene – previously one of Trump’s most reliable allies on Capitol Hill – joined Democrats in calling for his removal under the 25th amendment. While conspiracy theorist and rightwing broadcaster Alex Jones also urged Trump’s ouster. “You can have a good leader, and they just go crazy,” he said on social media. And a handful of GOP lawmakers have also come out strongly against attacking civilian targets.
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Pope Leo XIV said that threats directed at Iran’s population are “unacceptable” and would violate international law. In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, the first American pontiff urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.
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The UN rights chief decried the “incendiary rhetoric” in the war, warning that deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure was “a war crime”. “Under international law, deliberately attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Anyone responsible for international crimes must be held to account by a competent court,” Volker Turk said in a statement, without naming the United States, Israel nor Iran.
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Iran’s representative to the UN said that Tehran will “take immediate and proportionate” action if Trump follows through on his threats. Amir-Saeid Iravani said Trump’s threats that a “whole civilization will die” if Iran does not make a deal “constitute incitement to war crimes and potentially genocide”. “Iran will not stand idle in the face of such egregious war crimes. It will exercise, without hesitation, its inherent right of self-defence and will take immediate and proportionate reciprocal measures,” he said.
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An Iranian official urged young citizens to form human chains around the country’s power plants, following Trump’s threats to bomb them. Trump responded by saying that was “totally illegal”. “They’re not allowed to do that,” he told NBC News, completely un-ironically.
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Meanwhile, Russia and China vetoed an already watered down draft resolution from Bahrain at the UN Security Council calling for countries to coordinate to open the strait of Hormuz. There were 11 votes in favour, Russian and China against, and abstentions from Pakistan, which has been mediating between Iran and the US, and Colombia. Bahrain’s foreign minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, said the failure to pass the resolution “sends the wrong signal to the world”.
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The White House denied that remarks by vice-president JD Vance about military operations in Iran had contained any suggestion of a US nuclear strike against the Islamic republic. After Vance said US forces have tools they “so far haven’t decided to use” to enforce a dramatic ultimatum from president Donald Trump, the White House said on X: “Literally nothing @VP said here ‘implies’ this, you absolute buffoons.”
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The US hit Kharg Island again ahead of Donald Trump’s deadline, an AP source has reported. Earlier Iran’s Mehr news agency said US-Israeli strikes had hit the key Iranian oil export terminal, and later reported that there was no disruption to the island’s oil facilities.
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Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had struck railways and bridges in Iran “used by the Revolutionary Guards”, after Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges and railway infrastructure. “We are crushing the terror regime in Iran… with even greater vigour and with increasing force,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office.
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Lebanon’s health ministry said that the death toll in more than a month of war between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah had reached 1,530. The toll includes 102 women and 130 children, as well as 57 heath workers, a ministry statement said, adding that 4,812 people have been wounded.
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The Israeli military has urged all vessels in the maritime zone off the coast of southern Lebanon to immediately head north of the city of Tyre, warning that it would operate in the area. “Hezbollah’s activities expose naval vessels in the maritime area between Tyre and Ras al-Naqoura to danger, which compels the IDF to take action against it in the maritime domain,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on X.
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The IDF also that its forces had struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim. According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.
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Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said. Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children. At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.
Cecilia Nowell
Federal security agencies say that Iranian hackers have begun cyber-attacks aimed at water and energy systems in the United States hours after Donald Trump threatened “every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.”
In a joint statement, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency and the Energy Department said hackers backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had begun cyber-attacks on US power infrastructure.
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