Middle East crisis live: Iran war ceasefire doesn’t include Lebanon, says Israel; Trump says uranium will be ‘taken care of’ | Iran
Summary
Welcome to the Guardian’s ongoing coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, just an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to destroy the country expired on Wednesday. Tehran announced that it will temporarily reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
While both sides claimed they had won the more than month-long conflict that roiled global financial markets and sent oil prices soaring, Trump told the AFP news agency that the deal was a “complete and total victory” for the United States.
Iran also viewed the ceasefire as a win and said on Friday it had agreed to begin talks with Washington to find a way to end the conflict in Pakistan.
In the statement made by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, it was said: “The enemy has suffered an undeniable, historic and crushing defeat in the cowardly, illegal and criminal war he waged against the Iranian nation.”
“Iran achieved a great victory”
The White House said Israel also agreed to the ceasefire, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it did not include Lebanon, where Israeli attacks in response to rocket fire from Iran-backed Hezbollah have led to more than 1,500 deaths, according to Lebanese officials.
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Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced that it had conditionally accepted a two-week ceasefire If attacks on Iran are stopped.
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Iranian Foreign Minister said passage through the Strait of Hormuz is possible It will be allowed under Iranian military rule for the next 2 weeks.
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Iranian state media said talks with the US to finalize details of the deal will be held in IslamabadIn order to “verify Iran’s achievements on the battlefield.” According to state media reports, negotiations will begin on Friday, April 10 and may be extended. State media also reported that the talks with the United States did not mean the end of the war.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif announced that Iran, the United States and their allies have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon.. Sharif has been a key figure in efforts to reach a diplomatic solution between the two warring sides. In his statement, Sharif invited the delegations to Islamabad “on Friday, April 10, 2026, for further negotiations for a definitive agreement that will resolve all disputes.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel welcomes the ceasefire, but fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon is not part of it..
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Trump said Iran has proposed a “workable” 10-point peace plan. According to Iranian state media, the ten-point proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has rejected in the past.. These include a controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iranian armed forces and the withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan also calls for the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, paying full compensation to Iran, and releasing all frozen Iranian assets.
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Iranian state media also said the 10-point plan to end the war would require Washington to agree to a uranium enrichment programThis was the Trump administration’s previous red line.
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Even as the ceasefire was being proposed, missile alerts continued in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Israel..
important events
Donald Trump says ‘great day for world peace’
In a social media post, Donald Trump called Tuesday a “great day for world peace” and claimed Iran was “fed up.” He said the US would “help increase traffic” in the Strait of Hormuz and that “big money would be made” by Iran starting its reconstruction.
In a statement on Truth Social, he said the US would “stick around” to make sure everything went well, and that he was confident of that, adding that “this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East.”
The two-week ceasefire with Iran remains conditional in nature, and Washington has yet to publicly accept an invitation to talks scheduled for Friday in Islamabad.
Some points in Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan have been rejected by the United States in the past.
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran that sees the Strait of Hormuz temporarily reopened and made a rare criticism of Donald Trump threatening that “the whole civilization will die”.
The Prime Minister said news of the conditional ceasefire was “very positive” and he was hopeful it would lead to a permanent end to the conflict, which has caused global fuel prices to soar.
Albanese said in an interview with Sky News that the threat to destroy civilian infrastructure was “an extraordinary statement to make”.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the president of the United States to use that kind of language. And I think it will raise some concerns, which there are,” the prime minister said.
“We have said very clearly that the management of any conflict must comply with international law, and this ensures that civilians who are not parties to the conflict are provided with every possible protection.”
Albanese disagrees on whether the bombing of civilian infrastructure constitutes a war crime, according to legal experts and officials from many countries.
Israel announced that the ceasefire does not include Lebanon
Israel supports Donald Trump’s decision to suspend attacks on Iran for two weeks, but the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday.
The office stated that Israel supports the US move, provided that Tehran immediately opens the Strait of Hormuz and stops attacks against the US, Israel and regional countries.
Pakistani prime minister Shebaz Sharif had previously said that the ceasefire also included Lebanon.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of the war have killed more than 1,400 people, including 126 children, and displaced more than 1 million people, according to Lebanese officials. Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon was launched after Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, fired rockets into northern Israel in response to the killing of former Iranian religious leader Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli airstrikes.
Israel also supports U.S. efforts to ensure that Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile or “terrorist” threat to the United States, Israel and Iran’s Arab neighbors, he said, adding that Washington has told Israel it is committed to achieving their common goals in upcoming negotiations. Iran said on Wednesday that talks with the United States would begin in Islamabad on Friday, April 10.
Summary
Welcome to the Guardian’s ongoing coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, just an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to destroy the country expired on Wednesday. Tehran announced that it will temporarily reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
While both sides claimed they had won the more than month-long conflict that roiled global financial markets and sent oil prices soaring, Trump told the AFP news agency that the deal was a “complete and total victory” for the United States.
Iran also viewed the ceasefire as a win and said on Friday it had agreed to begin talks with Washington to find a way to end the conflict in Pakistan.
In the statement made by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, it was said: “The enemy has suffered an undeniable, historic and crushing defeat in the cowardly, illegal and criminal war it waged against the Iranian nation.”
“Iran achieved a great victory”
The White House said Israel also agreed to the ceasefire, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it did not include Lebanon, where Israeli attacks in response to rocket fire from Iran-backed Hezbollah have led to more than 1,500 deaths, according to Lebanese officials.
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Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced that it had conditionally accepted a two-week ceasefire If attacks on Iran are stopped.
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Iranian Foreign Minister said passage through the Strait of Hormuz is possible It will be allowed for the next 2 weeks under Iranian military rule.
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Iranian state media said talks with the US to finalize details of the deal will be held in IslamabadIn order to “verify Iran’s achievements on the battlefield.” According to state media reports, negotiations will begin on Friday, April 10 and may be extended. State media also reported that the talks with the United States did not mean the end of the war.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif announced that Iran, the United States and their allies have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon.. Sharif has been a key figure in efforts to reach a diplomatic solution between the two warring sides. In his statement, Sharif invited the delegations to Islamabad “on Friday, April 10, 2026, for further negotiations for a definitive agreement that will resolve all disputes.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel welcomes the ceasefire, but fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon is not part of it..
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Trump said Iran has proposed a “workable” 10-point peace plan. According to Iranian state media, the ten-point proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has rejected in the past.. These include a controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iranian armed forces and the withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan also calls for the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, paying full compensation to Iran, and releasing all frozen Iranian assets.
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Iranian state media also said the 10-point plan to end the war would require Washington to agree to a uranium enrichment programThis was the Trump administration’s previous red line.
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Even as the ceasefire was being proposed, missile alerts continued in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Israel..
