Trump agrees to two-week suspension of attacks on Iran

06 Apr 2026, 23:50 by David MacRedmond, https://www.thejournal.ie/author/david-macredmond/ · TheJournal.ie

LAST UPDATE | 7 Apr

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has agreed to suspend threatened attacks on Iran after he received a 10-point plan from the Tehran regime.

Tonight the White House announced that it had agreed to the ceasefire just hours before the US-imposed deadline expired at 1am.

A spokesperson for the president said that there was a last-minute Pakistani request for the US to extend the previous deadline given to Iran by two weeks.

Iran has also indicated it will agree to the 14-day pause. It has agreed to offer safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for the two weeks if US attacks were stopped.

“For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X.

The Islamic republic’s Supreme National Security Council said in a separate statement the negotiations were set to last two weeks but could be “extended by mutual agreement of the parties”.

In a post on his Truth Social platform Trump said that he was backing down from his threat after conversations with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Trump said: “they asked me to postpone the devastating force I was going to send tonight to Iran, contingent on the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the full, immediate, and secure opening of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack on Iran for two weeks.”

“I agree to suspend the bombing and attack on Iran for two weeks. This will be a ceasefire from both sides! And the reason for that is that we have achieved and exceeded all military objectives, and we are at a very advanced stage of a final agreement on permanent peace with Iran, and peace in the Middle East.

“We have received a ten-point proposal from Iran, and we believe it is a negotiable basis.

“The United States and Iran have agreed on almost all previous points of contention, but the two-week period will allow for the completion and ratification of the agreement. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also on behalf of the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor for me that this long-standing problem is close to resolution,” he said.

Hours ahead of the deadline, Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said his government was prepared “for all scenarios”.

“No threat is beyond our preparedness and intelligence,” he added.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy critical civilian infrastructure in Iran, which would be a war crime, if the government does not fully open the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic.

‘Stone age’

Today Trump threatened that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” if Iran’s government does not agree to US demands.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Trump did not give details but he has already said the US military could bomb Iran’s bridges, power plants and other civilian infrastructure into the “stone age”.

Earlier today, the White House denied that remarks by Vice President JD Vance about the war against Iran 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.”

The post was in response to one from an account associated with former vice president Kamala Harris that said Vance implied Trump “might use nuclear weapons”.