President Donald Trump pauses as he finishes speaking about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has agreed to suspend planned attacks on Iranian infrastructure for two weeks.
The move was “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the full, immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” he said. Wrote on Truth Social.
The announcement came less than two hours before his deadline by which Iran must either reach a deal that includes opening the Strait of Hormuz or face major attacks on its civilian infrastructure.
Trump wrote that he took the decision “based on conversations with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir.”
“It will be a two-way ceasefire!” Trump announced.
The 8 p.m. ET deadline — which Trump set after demanding in a belligerent social media post on Sunday that Iran “open the fuckin’ strait” — had caused panic in the US and around the world.
Trump escalated the matter dramatically on Tuesday morning, writing in another Truth Social post, “Tonight an entire civilization will die, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, Sharif had asked Trump to extend his deadline for Iran by two weeks. He also asked Iran’s leadership to agree to open the strait for two weeks “as a goodwill gesture.”
“We urge all warring parties to observe ceasefire everywhere for two weeks so that the diplomatic war can be decisively ended in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region,” Sharif wrote in an ex-post.
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