{"id":44983,"date":"2026-04-08T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44983"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:09:00","slug":"us-iran-ceasefire-has-tehran-played-trump-the-latest-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44983","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran ceasefire: has Tehran played Trump? \u2013 The Latest | Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire thanks to a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions include a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz, but Israel\u2019s position was left unclear, with airstrikes continuing on the Lebanese capital of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have since claimed victory but who, if anyone, is the real winner here? Lucy Hough speaks to the senior international reporter Peter Beaumont <strong>\u2013 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\"><strong>watch on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2026\/apr\/08\/us-iran-ceasefire-has-tehran-played-trump-the-latest\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire thanks to a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan. The conditions include a temporary reopening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}