{"id":71163,"date":"2026-04-08T06:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:59:31","slug":"us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire as Tehran says it will reopen strait of Hormuz | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump abandons threat for Iran to surrender or face destruction. Plus, why some people are \u2018bad texters\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Iran agreed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/trump-iran-war-ceasefire\">two-week conditional ceasefire deal on Tuesday<\/a> evening, which includes a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the ceasefire affect Israel and Lebanon?<\/strong> The Israel prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel backed the US ceasefire with Iran \u2013 but that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/israel-operations-in-lebanon-to-continue-despite-trump-ceasefire-iran-pakistan-hezbollah\">the deal did not cover fighting against Hezbollah<\/a> in Lebanon. Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,500 in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Trump said about the Iranian 10-point plan?<\/strong> He has called it a \u201cworkable basis on which to negotiate\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/iran-10-point-plan-ceasefire-donald-trump-us\">Here\u2019s what\u2019s in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow our liveblog<\/strong> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/08\/iran-war-ceasefire-live-updates-trump-deadline-middle-east-crisis-latest-news\">latest developments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much of a margin do Republicans have in Georgia?<\/strong> The GOP currently holds the state House with a three-vote margin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/first-thing-us-iran-ceasefire-tehran-reopen-strait-of-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump abandons threat for Iran to surrender or face destruction. Plus, why some people are \u2018bad texters\u2019 Good morning. The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire deal on Tuesday evening, which includes a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz. How does the ceasefire affect Israel and Lebanon? The Israel prime &#8230; <a title=\"US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire as Tehran says it will reopen strait of Hormuz | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/us-and-iran-agree-to-provisional-ceasefire-as-tehran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire as Tehran says it will reopen strait of Hormuz | First Thing\">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-71163","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\/71163","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=71163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}