Iran War Day 39: Trump announces 2-week Iran ceasefire after deadline threat
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Caroline MolloyAfter warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran failed to meet his deadline, President Donald Trump hours later announced a two-week ceasefire with the country, pausing U.S. strikes as negotiations continue. Prominent Catholics, including the leaders of CatholicVote, had denounced Trump’s initial threat as immoral, with Pope Leo XIV calling it “truly unacceptable.”
Trump announces ceasefire
Trump announced the evening of April 7 that he has agreed to suspend military strikes against Iran for two weeks, after earlier threatening the country if it failed to meet his 8 p.m. ET deadline for a deal.
In a Truth Social statement posted the morning of April 7, Trump had warned Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if the regime fails to meet his 8 p.m. ET deadline for a deal. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
Vice President JD Vance, speaking at an April 7 news conference in Budapest, had also threatened that the U.S. has “tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use.” He added that Trump “can decide to use them, and he will decide to use them if the Iranians can’t change their course of conduct.”
>> Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran doesn’t meet deal deadline <<
Hours later, in an evening Truth Social post, Trump announced a two-week suspension of U.S strikes against Iran, calling it a “double-sided ceasefire.” He credited Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, saying they had personally asked him to delay the strikes.
The two-week pause, Trump said, is conditioned on Iran agreeing to the “complete, immediate, and safe opening” of the Strait of Hormuz. He said the U.S. had received a 10-point proposal from Tehran and claimed that “almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran.”
“We have already met and exceeded all military objectives,” Trump wrote, “and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”
