Trump agrees to two week suspension of attacks on Iran

07 Apr 2026, 22:49 by David MacRedmond, https://www.thejournal.ie/author/david-macredmond/ · TheJournal.ie

LAST UPDATE | 7 mins ago

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

Tonight the White House announced that they 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 deadline given to Iran by two weeks.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif, who has been attempting to play the role of mediator between Washington and Tehran, has said that diplomatic efforts are making progress but that more time was needed.

“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future,” Sharif said in a post on X.

“To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform Trump said that he was backing down from his threat after conversations with Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir

“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.”