{"id":71121,"date":"2026-04-07T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/us-and-iran-agree-to-two-week-ceasefire-with-strait-of-hormuz-to-open\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:55:24","slug":"us-and-iran-agree-to-two-week-ceasefire-with-strait-of-hormuz-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/us-and-iran-agree-to-two-week-ceasefire-with-strait-of-hormuz-to-open\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, with strait of Hormuz to open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute intervention led by Pakistan cancels Trump ultimatum for Iran to surrender or face annihilation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/07\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-threats-deadline-strikes-middle-east-conflict\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday evening after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement of the ceasefire agreement came less than two hours before the US president\u2019s self-imposed 8pm Eastern time deadline to bomb Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges in a move that legal scholars, as well as officials from numerous countries and the Pope, had warned could constitute war crimes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/trump-iran-war-ceasefire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute intervention led by Pakistan cancels Trump ultimatum for Iran to surrender or face annihilation Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday evening after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald &#8230; <a title=\"US and Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, with strait of Hormuz to open\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/us-and-iran-agree-to-two-week-ceasefire-with-strait-of-hormuz-to-open\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US and Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, with strait of Hormuz to open\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}