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The prime minister of Lebanon, Nawaf Salam, has accused Israel of killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon and attacking densely populated areas, particularly in the capital city of Beirut.

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His remarks follow a statement by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that it carried out its largest wave of strikes against what it described as Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the war began on 2 March.

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In a post of X, Salam wrote:

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Whilst we welcomed the agreement between Iran and the United States, and stepped up our efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate its attacks, which have targeted densely populated residential neighbourhoods and claimed the lives of unarmed civilians across Lebanon, particularly in the capital, Beirut, showing no regard for regional and international efforts to end the war, let alone the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, which it has never respected in the first place.

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Dramatic photos from the newswires show the aftermath of the Israeli strikes in Beirut and other areas of Lebanon:

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Answering questions from the media, Hegseth says that Iran will give the US its enriched uranium or else the States will “take it out”.

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He says the “new Iranian regime” has a different interaction with America than before.

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Hegseth says he hopes and believes the ceasefire will hold, reinforcing that the strait of Hormuz is now open and commerce will flow.

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Joint chiefs of staff Dan Caine says Donald Trump’s military objectives have now been achieved and that he welcomes the two-week ceasefire.

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He says he “deeply appreciates the support of the American people, who always have us in their thoughts and prayers”.

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He says the US military have struck more than 13,000 targets since the war began on 28 February.

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Caine says he assesses that around 90% of Iran’s navy fleet have been destroyed, as well as 95% of its naval mines.

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Hegseth begins by saying Iran “begged for this ceasefire” and says Operation Epic Fury “decimated” Iran’s military.

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He says the country’s missile programme has been “functionally destroyed” and that Iran’s navy “is at the bottom of the sea”. Hesgeth adds that “we [the US] own their skies”.

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The US carried out 800 strikes on Tuesday night, he says, destroying Iran’s defence industrial base.

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  World leaders have welcomed the announcement by the US and Iran of a two-week ceasefire, with Tehran agreeing to allow the safe transit of vessels through the strait of Hormuz.

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  The ceasefire that was brokered by Pakistan has been hailed a victory by both sides. Donald Trump repeated the claim that the war has achieved regime change in Iran, while officials in Tehran said the general principles “desired” by Iran were accepted in the ceasefire deal.

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  The US president said Iran will cease uranium enrichment – a condition that Tehran has previously refused to budge on – and that his country will “work closely’ with Iran. In a post of his Truth Social app, Trump also warned countries supplying weapons to Iran that they will face a 50% tariff on any and all goods “effective immediately”.

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  The Israeli government and military said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have continued their strikes against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. The IDF ordered people in the southern suburbs of Beirut to flee their homes yet again, as Israeli airstrikes pummelled Beirut and the outskirts of the Lebanese capital.

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  The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched the largest wave of strikes across Lebanon since the current conflict began, saying it attacked 100 command centres and military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in 10 minutes.

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  Pakistan said Iran has confirmed it will participate in talks with the US aimed at resolving the conflict. The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he had invited US and Iranian delegations for talks in Islamabad on Friday.

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  Some of the first ships to sail through the strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire announcement have been detected, according to global marine data tracker AXSMarine. Ten ships have passed through the narrow waterway so far today, four of which were Iranian.

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French global marine data tracker AXSMarine says that 10 ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz so far today, four of which were Iranian.

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There is no expectation that flows will return to anywhere near normal today as all ships must have permission from the Iranians and the shipping industry remains cautious, AXSMarine says.

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In peacetime, between 50 and 100 ships would pass in either direction through the straits with the war reducing that to between two and seven vessel movements a day in the last two weeks after the Iranians gave the green light to certain national flag carriers.

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AXSMarine recorded six crossings on both 1 and 2 April and seven on Sunday 5 April, and consistent two-way movement has been observed each day since so Wednesday’s movement shows a minor uptick.

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“Initially, Iran announced that ships owned by five nations (China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan) would be allowed to transit. Malaysian and Thai vessels were granted access after diplomatic talks. On 2 April, Iran said it would allow Philippine-flagged vessels to cross following further negotiations,” AXS Marine said.

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Donald Trump said Iran will cease uranium enrichment – a condition that Tehran has previously refused to budge on – and that the US will help to “dig up” enriched uranium buried under strikes last summer.

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He added that many of the conditions in his 15-point ceasefire plan touted a few weeks ago have been agreed to by Iran.

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Writing on his Truth Social app, he said.

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The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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In a subsequent post, he said any country supplying weapons to Iran will be slapped with a 50% tariff on any and all goods “effective immediately”.

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He wrote:

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A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions!

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Some of the first ships to sail through the strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire announcement have been detected, according to tracking data analyst MarineTraffic.

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Two vessels, including the Greek-owned bulk carrier NJ Earth and the Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach, have crossed the strait today, MarineTraffic said in a post on X.

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It said:

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Early signs of vessel activity are emerging in the strait of Hormuz following a ceasefire announcement, which includes a temporary reopening of the strategic waterway to allow for negotiations. According to MarineTraffic data, hundreds of vessels remain in the region, including 426 tankers, 34 LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) carriers, and 19 LNG (liquefied natural gas) vessels, many of which had been effectively stranded during the disruption.

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The president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, welcomed the US-Iran ceasefire and said he hoped his country will be included in the regional truce.

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The Israeli government and military said the fighting in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah militants would continue, with Israeli strikes reported in the country since the US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

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In a statement posted online by the Lebanese presidency, Aoun said Lebanon would continue efforts “to ensure that the regional peace includes Lebanon in a stable and lasting manner”.

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US vice-president JD Vance has acknowledged that the Iran ceasefire remained a “fragile truce”, as he sought to dispute Iran’s declared victory in the war.

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Speaking in the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, where he is supporting prime minister Viktor Orbán’s reelection bid, Vance said some Iranians “are basically lying about what we have accomplished militarily” and “about the nature of the agreement”.

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He said

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This is why I say this is a fragile truce. You have people who clearly want to come to the negotiating table and work with us to find a good deal, and then you have people who are lying about even the fragile truce that we’ve already struck.

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The president … has told me and he’s told the entire negotiating team, the secretary of state, the special envoy, Steve Witkoff, he said: go and work in good faith to come to an agreement. … If the Iranians are willing, in good faith, to work with us, I think we can make an agreement; if they’re going to lie, if they’re going to cheat, if they’re going to try to prevent even the fragile truce that we’ve set up from taking place, then they’re not going to be happy.

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My colleague, Jakub Krupa, has more over on the Europe live blog, where he is reporting reactions to the ceasefire deal from around continent and other Europe-related news. You can follow those updates here:

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In a statement released by his office, the Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he has got confirmation from Iran that it will participate in talks in Islamabad.

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Sharif said the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, confirmed Iran will take part in negotiations with the US that seek to resolve the conflict.

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Earlier, Sharif said he invited delegations for talks on Friday in the Pakistani capital. While Iranian state media reported that the talks may be extended, it said negotiations with the US do not amount to the end of the war.

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The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the ceasefire announced this morning is in line with “the general requirements desired” by Tehran.

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A translation of his post on X reads:

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The ceasefire, with the acceptance of the general principles desired by Iran, was the fruit of the blood of our martyred leader, the great Khamenei, and the result of the participation of all the people in the arena. From today, we will continue to stand together, whether in the field of diplomacy, in defence, on the streets, or in the realm of public service.

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He joins other Iranian officials who have declared the ceasefire deal a win for Iran. Mohammad Reza Aref, Iran’s first vice president, wrote on X that “the era of Iran has begun”, while Iran’s supreme national security council said the US has “suffered an undeniable, historical, and crushing defeat”.

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The Israeli military told people in the southern suburbs of Beirut to flee, moments after announcing its forces are continuing “combat and ground operations” against Hezbollah.

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In its third time it has told people in Lebanon to flee since the US-Iran ceasefire was announced, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) urged residents of seven Beirut neighbourhoods to flee their homes.

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The order covers a large swathe of the Lebanese capital, where hundreds of thousands of people have already become displaced following repeated IDF warnings to leave the area.

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“The IDF continues to operate and strike at military infrastructure belonging to the terrorist organisation Hezbollah across the southern suburbs,” the IDF Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said on X.

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“The IDF has no intention of harming you; therefore, for your own safety, you must evacuate immediately.”

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The Israeli government said it accepts the two-week ceasefire agreement reached last night between the US and Iran, but that it does not include Lebanon, contrary to a statement by Pakistan. Hezbollah has yet to publicly announce its position.

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Oman’s foreign minister, ⁠Badr Albusaidi, who mediated indirect nuclear talks between Iran and the US before the war, said the ceasefire meant “for now the world has stepped back from disaster”.

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“But there’s no room for complacency,” he said in a post on X. “Serious negotiations now required for lasting peace. Oman will support this work for the vital and urgent purpose of strong and enduring regional security.`”

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Last night, 1,441 ships were stuck on either side of the strait of Hormuz , according to shipping software company AXSMarine, which tracks global vessel movements.

n The majority – 959 – were in the Gulf, west of the strait, with 621 to the east either waiting to enter the gulf to load up with gas, oil, chemicals or dry bulk or with deliveries for gulf states.

No ships carrying liquified natural gas have passed the strait since the war started on 28 February, according to AXSMarine’s data.

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A significant number on both sides were “spoofing” or had gone “dark”, turning off communications to hide their exact location and try and protect themselves from projectiles.

n In the last two weeks up to 6 April, just 51 tankers traversed the strait with 15 carrying crude oil and 9 carrying chemicals.

n This compares to 51 daily movements before the war.

n Before last night’s ceasefire, Iran had announced that ships owned by five nations (China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan) would be allowed to transit. Malaysian and Thai vessels were granted access after diplomatic talks. On 2 April, Iran said it would allow Philippine-flagged vessels to cross following further negotiations.

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“In accordance with political directives, the IDF has contained the fighting in the campaign against Iran and remains on high alert for defence, ready to respond to any violation,” the IDF said.

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It added that in Lebanon, “the IDF continues its combat and ground operations against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”.

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Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who has been perhaps the most outspoken western critic of Trump’s war in Iran, has issued a blunt reaction to the ceasefire announcement on X, saying his administration “will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket”.

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He said:

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n

Ceasefires are always good news – especially if they lead to a just and lasting peace. But this momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost.

n

The Spanish government will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.

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What’s needed now are diplomacy, international legality, and PEACE.

n

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Brett McGurk, a former senior US security official and reluctantly supportive of the conflict, conceded on social media that the ceasefire agreement Trump has signed is not “status quo ante bellum” ie the US is now worse off than at the start of this war of choice.

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To spell it out, Trump needlessly started a war at the urging of Israel, refused to listen to those experts urging caution, devised a strategy built on a misapprehension of Iran, sparked a ruinous regional conflict, caused the death of thousands of civilians, unhinged the world economy, strengthened, for now, the repressive instincts of the Iranian and Russian governments, left America more discredited and isolated, provoked serious questions about the president’s fitness for public office, laid waste to large parts of Iran and Lebanon, including medical research centres, primary schools and universities, did not resolve Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium or its future nuclear programme, strengthened those in Iran backing possession of a nuclear weapon, and, yes, ensured Iran and Oman still plan to control and toll the strait of Hormuz for the first time.

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A return to war will doubtless soon be threatened even before the two-week ceasefire ends, but the use of force in this decades-old conflict has now been test driven and proven the wrong vehicle since it can only achieve its objectives at an inconceivable price.

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While more officials from around the world are issuing statements praising the cessation of hostilities between the US and Iran, the Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, has erred on the side of caution, saying the ceasefire is “only for two weeks” and that it was too early to determine whether the war was truly over.

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Speaking to the Spanish radio station RNE, he said the world came “perilously close to disaster” after US president Donald Trump threatened to wipe out Iranian civilisation in his ultimatum to Tehran.

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“When the leader of a military superpower makes such threats, I take them seriously,” Albares said.

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He continued: “We are talking about something unthinkable for humanity and which would have led to an unthinkable escalation.”

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While acknowledging the ceasefire announcement brings “a day of hope and joy” he cautioned that “it’s only two weeks, not a long time, and the two sides are far apart”.

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He added: “We’re still far from achieving what we want. The ceasefire is a necessary step, but not a definitive one.”

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It will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to return to normal even after the strait of Hormuz reopens due to the disruptions to refineries in the Middle East, said Willie Walsh, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

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Speaking to reporters in Singapore, he said that it was difficult to say how long fuel supplies would take to recover, but that “it’s not going to happen quickly”.

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“It will still take a period of months to get back to where supply needs to be given the disruption to the refining capacity in the Middle East,” he said, according to the AFP news agency.

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“I don’t think it’s going to happen in weeks.”

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UK prime minister Keir Starmer has joined a chorus of world leaders welcoming the announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and the US.

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“I welcome the ceasefire agreement reached overnight, which will bring a moment of relief to the region and the world,” he said.

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“Together with our partners we must do all we can to support and sustain this ceasefire, turn it into a lasting agreement and reopen the strait of Hormuz.”

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Starmer is travelling to the Middle East today to meet Gulf leaders to “discuss diplomatic efforts to support and uphold the ceasefire”, No 10 said.

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For those of you just joining us, here’s where things stand in the Middle East after a dramatic day.

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  The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, barely an hour before Donald Trump’s Wednesday deadline to obliterate the country and its infrastructure.

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  Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it had conditionally accepted the two-week ceasefire if attacks against Iran are halted.

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  Iran’s foreign minister said passage through the strait of Hormuz will be allowed for the next two weeks under Iranian military management.

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  Iranian state media said negotiations with the US would be held in Islamabad to finalise details of an agreement. Talks will begin on Friday 10 April and may be extended, state media reported. State media also reported that talks with the US do not amount to the end of the war.

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  Pakistan’s prime minister, Shebaz Sharif, announced that Iran, the US and their allies had agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon, but Israel disputed this, saying fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire. Sharif has been a key figure in attempting to reach a diplomatic solution between the two warring parties.

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  Trump said Iran had proposed a “workable” 10-point peace plan. According to Iranian state media, the proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has in the past rejected, among them controlled transit through the strait of Hormuz coordinated with Iranian armed forces and the withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan would also require the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, payment of full compensation to Iran and release of all frozen Iranian assets.

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  Even as the ceasefire was proposed, missile alerts continued in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Israel.

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  Countries around the world have welcomed the tentative ceasefire. Australia’s PM, Anthony Albanese, welcomed the “very positive” developments but issued a rare rebuke of Trump’s “extraordinary” language beforehand. South Korea, Japan and New Zealand were among the other nations to welcome the news.

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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has offered up his reflections on the last few hours of diplomacy and said “there has never been such a political disaster in all of our history.”

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Lapid, who heads the centrist Yesh Atid party, has said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “failed politically, failed strategically, and didn’t meet a single one of the goals that he himself set.”

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It will take us years to repair the political and strategic damage that Netanyahu wrought due to arrogance, negligence, and a lack of strategic planning.

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A genocidal threat, and then the US president, Donald Trump, blinked – without any apparently meaningful concessions from Iran. As in so much concerning the second Trump administration, the two week ceasefire “deal” that will see the strait of Hormuz reopened – if it can be described as such – is maddeningly vague and short on detail, apparently kicking the can on key issues down the road.

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Iran’s nuclear issue, Trump said, would be solved “perfectly.” “It was a big day for world peace”, Trump posted on Truth Social. “Iran can start reconstruction” he added. “Big money” could be made. Yada. Yada. Yada.

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The reality is that as the current circumstances stand, this represents a huge strategic failure for the US. Despite having killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders, the regime change initially promised by Trump and US prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to materialise. Instead it appears the regime has consolidated around a more hardline core centred on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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Far from being a new, more reasonable and less radical regime, as Trump has repeatedly suggested, it remains essentially the same regime – wounded, wary, and perhaps even more hardline.

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Donald Trump has called Tuesday “a big day for world peace” on a social media post, claiming that Iran has “had enough”. He said the US will be “helping with the traffic buildup” in the strait of Hormuz, and that “big money will be made” as Iran begins reconstruction.

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In the statement on Truth Social, he added that the US would be just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure everything goes well” and that he was confident it would. He later added “this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East”.

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The two-week ceasefire with Iran remains conditional in nature, and Washington has yet to publicly accept an invitation to talks planned for Friday in Islamabad.

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Some points in Iran’s 10-point plan for a ceasefire have previously been rejected by the US in the past.

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Israel supports Donald Trump’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks, but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday.

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The office said Israel backed the US move, provided Tehran immediately opens the strait of Hormuz and stops attacks against the United States, Israel and countries in the region.

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The Pakistani prime minister, Shebaz Sharif, had previously said the ceasefire extended over Lebanon.

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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, according to Lebanese authorities. The renewed Israeli war on Lebanon was launched after Hezbollah – the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group – fired rockets into northern Israel in response to the killing of the former Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in joint US-Israeli airstrikes.

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Israel also said it supports US efforts to ensure Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile or “terror” threat to US, Israel and Iran’s Arab neighbours, adding that Washington had told Israel it was committed to achieving their shared goals in upcoming negotiations. Iran said on Wednesday negotiations with the US would begin on Friday 10 April in Islamabad.

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Welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran.

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The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before Donald Trump’s Wednesday deadline to obliterate the country was set to expire, with Tehran saying it will temporarily reopen the vital strait of Hormuz.

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Both sides claimed to have won the more than month-long conflict that has roiled global financial markets and sent oil prices skyrocketing, with Trump telling the AFP news agency the deal was a “total and complete victory” for the US.

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Iran too cast the ceasefire as a win and said it had agreed to talks with Washington to begin Friday in Pakistan on a path to end the conflict.

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“The enemy has suffered an undeniable, historic and crushing defeat in its cowardly, illegal and criminal war against the Iranian nation,” said a statement from the Iranian Supreme National Security Council.

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“Iran achieved a great victory.”

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The White House said Israel had also agreed to the ceasefire, but prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it does not include Lebanon, where Israeli assaults in response to rocket fire by Iranian-backed Hezbollah have led to more than 1,500 deaths, according to Lebanese authorities.

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  Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it had conditionally accepted a two-week ceasefire if attacks against Iran are halted.

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  Iran’s foreign minister said passage through the strait of Hormuz will be allowed for the next 2 weeks under Iranian military management.

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  Iranian state media said negotiations with the US would be held in Islamabad to finalise details of an agreement, with the aim of “confirming Iran’s battlefield achievements”. Talks will begin on Friday 10 April and may be extended, state media reported. State media also reported that talks with the US do not amount to the end of the war.

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  Pakistani prime minister Shebaz Sharif announced that Iran, the US and their allies agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon. Sharif has been a key figure in attempting to reach a diplomatic solution between the two warring parties. In his statement, Sharif invited delegations to Islamabad on “Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes”.

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  Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli welcomed the ceasefire but said fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon was not part of it.

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  Trump said Iran had 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 in the past rejected. Among them are controlled transit through strait of Hormuz coordinated with Iranian armed forces and withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan would also require the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, payment of full compensation to Iran and release of all frozen Iranian assets.

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  Iranian state media also said the 10-point plan for securing an end to the war would require Washington to accept its uranium enrichment program, a previous red line for the Trump administration.

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  Even as the ceasefire was proposed, missile alerts continued in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Israel.

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Meanwhile, the US vice-president, JD Vance, said Iran must negotiate in “good faith” during the two-week ceasefire, as he called it a “fragile truce”.

He made the comments at a conference in the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, where he is supporting prime minister Viktor Orbán’s reelection bid

We have some of the clips from that speech here:

Israel is killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon, says Lebanese PM

The prime minister of Lebanon, Nawaf Salam, has accused Israel of killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon and attacking densely populated areas, particularly in the capital city of Beirut.

His remarks follow a statement by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that it carried out its largest wave of strikes against what it described as Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the war began on 2 March.

In a post of X, Salam wrote:

Whilst we welcomed the agreement between Iran and the United States, and stepped up our efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate its attacks, which have targeted densely populated residential neighbourhoods and claimed the lives of unarmed civilians across Lebanon, particularly in the capital, Beirut, showing no regard for regional and international efforts to end the war, let alone the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, which it has never respected in the first place.

Dramatic photos from the newswires show the aftermath of the Israeli strikes in Beirut and other areas of Lebanon:

Jillian Ambrose

The US-Israeli ceasefire with Iran is unlikely to lead to a swift exit for the hundreds of oil and gas tankers trapped in the Gulf, according to shipping experts.

One seafarer who is aboard an oil tanker stranded behind the strait of Hormuz told the Guardian that shipping companies would require more certainty before they attempt to transit the strait.

“We’re at anchor, near dozens of loaded tankers. No one has moved an inch,” they said.

The seafarer said that bulk carriers, loaded with dry bulk such as cars and containers, had begun to move towards the Gulf but that major shipping companies would be unlikely to move oil and gas tankers without the go-ahead from insurance companies.

“No reputable company, with any links to EU countries, will risk moving without Lloyds and major insurers saying that they can,” they said.

“Transiting the strait will require more certainty; insurers will need to agree to insure these cargoes and there would need to be a better understanding of how to pay “toll fees” to a country which is still officially sanctioned.”

It will take several days before the impact of the truce on shipping becomes clear, according to Torbjorn Soltvedt, an analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.

“Before the war, daily transits through the strait of Hormuz exceeded 100 ships per day and any increase from the trickle of ships currently passing the strait is likely to be gradual,” Soltvedt said.

“Two weeks will not be enough to clear the backlog even if there is a marked increase in traffic.”

Lebanon’s health ministry on Wednesday issued an emergency call for people to clear roads in Beirut for ambulances after a series of Israeli strikes on the capital.

In a statement, the ministry said it was “urgently calling on citizens to clear the way for ambulances so they can carry out their work”.

“The traffic congestion caused by the unprecedented wave of airstrikes launched by the Israeli enemy is hindering rescue efforts,” it said.

Iran to hand over enriched uranium or US will ‘take it out’ – Hegseth

Answering questions from the media, Hegseth says that Iran will give the US its enriched uranium or else the States will “take it out”.

He says the “new Iranian regime” has a different interaction with America than before.

Hegseth says he hopes and believes the ceasefire will hold, reinforcing that the strait of Hormuz is now open and commerce will flow.

The US military is prepared to resume attacks on Iran if ordered by president Donald Trump, the top US general says.

“Let us be clear, a ceasefire is a pause, and the joint force remains ready, if ordered or called upon,” Caine tells the press conference.

Caine says he has spoken to the crew who were on the mission to rescue the down air crew in Iran.

He praises them for their “tenacity, grit and courage”, adding that it is a story that sums up “who we are as Americans”.

“This was and is a joint force that has the guts to try and does not quit,” he says. “No lives were lost. We succeeded because the joint forces are always at the ready.”

US military objectives achieved, says Caine

Joint chiefs of staff Dan Caine says Donald Trump’s military objectives have now been achieved and that he welcomes the two-week ceasefire.

He says he “deeply appreciates the support of the American people, who always have us in their thoughts and prayers”.

He says the US military have struck more than 13,000 targets since the war began on 28 February.

Caine says he assesses that around 90% of Iran’s navy fleet have been destroyed, as well as 95% of its naval mines.

Pentagon chief Hegseth says Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “wounded and disfigured”.

He says Iran’s factories have been “razed to the ground” and that the Pentagon has “done its part for now”.

He adds that he believes there is now a chance for peace but US troops involved in the conflict remain ready.

Hegseth: Iran ‘begged’ for this ceasefire

Hegseth begins by saying Iran “begged for this ceasefire” and says Operation Epic Fury “decimated” Iran’s military.

He says the country’s missile programme has been “functionally destroyed” and that Iran’s navy “is at the bottom of the sea”. Hesgeth adds that “we [the US] own their skies”.

The US carried out 800 strikes on Tuesday night, he says, destroying Iran’s defence industrial base.

Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Dan Caine are due to give a press conference imminently.

They will be expected to update the media on the US-Israeli war on Iran, in light of last night’s two-week ceasefire announcement.

Follow along here for all the latest news lines that emerge from it.

Summary of developments so far

• World leaders have welcomed the announcement by the US and Iran of a two-week ceasefire, with Tehran agreeing to allow the safe transit of vessels through the strait of Hormuz.

• The ceasefire that was brokered by Pakistan has been hailed a victory by both sides. Donald Trump repeated the claim that the war has achieved regime change in Iran, while officials in Tehran said the general principles “desired” by Iran were accepted in the ceasefire deal.

• The US president said Iran will cease uranium enrichment – a condition that Tehran has previously refused to budge on – and that his country will “work closely’ with Iran. In a post of his Truth Social app, Trump also warned countries supplying weapons to Iran that they will face a 50% tariff on any and all goods “effective immediately”.

• The Israeli government and military said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have continued their strikes against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. The IDF ordered people in the southern suburbs of Beirut to flee their homes yet again, as Israeli airstrikes pummelled Beirut and the outskirts of the Lebanese capital.

• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched the largest wave of strikes across Lebanon since the current conflict began, saying it attacked 100 command centres and military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in 10 minutes.

• Pakistan said Iran has confirmed it will participate in talks with the US aimed at resolving the conflict. The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he had invited US and Iranian delegations for talks in Islamabad on Friday.

• Some of the first ships to sail through the strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire announcement have been detected, according to global marine data tracker AXSMarine. Ten ships have passed through the narrow waterway so far today, four of which were Iranian.

Ten ships sail through strait of Hormuz, says AXSMarine

Lisa O’Carroll

French global marine data tracker AXSMarine says that 10 ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz so far today, four of which were Iranian.

There is no expectation that flows will return to anywhere near normal today as all ships must have permission from the Iranians and the shipping industry remains cautious, AXSMarine says.

In peacetime, between 50 and 100 ships would pass in either direction through the straits with the war reducing that to between two and seven vessel movements a day in the last two weeks after the Iranians gave the green light to certain national flag carriers.

AXSMarine recorded six crossings on both 1 and 2 April and seven on Sunday 5 April, and consistent two-way movement has been observed each day since so Wednesday’s movement shows a minor uptick.

“Initially, Iran announced that ships owned by five nations (China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan) would be allowed to transit. Malaysian and Thai vessels were granted access after diplomatic talks. On 2 April, Iran said it would allow Philippine-flagged vessels to cross following further negotiations,” AXS Marine said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched the largest wave of strikes across Lebanon since the current conflict began, saying it attacked 100 command centres and military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in 10 minutes.

It said the strikes were launched at targets in the capital city of Beirut – where thousands of people have been told to flee their homes – the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon.

Iran will cease uranium enrichment, Trump claims

Donald Trump said Iran will cease uranium enrichment – a condition that Tehran has previously refused to budge on – and that the US will help to “dig up” enriched uranium buried under strikes last summer.

He added that many of the conditions in his 15-point ceasefire plan touted a few weeks ago have been agreed to by Iran.

Writing on his Truth Social app, he said.

The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

In a subsequent post, he said any country supplying weapons to Iran will be slapped with a 50% tariff on any and all goods “effective immediately”.

He wrote:

A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions!

UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper desrcibed the ceasefire as “a vital step” towards security and stability in the Middle East.

She said a swift resolution was the best way to improve security and ease the economic impacts caused by the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz.

She said the proposed talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan must lead to a “full end to the conflict and ensure that Iran does not continue to threaten the strait or its neighbours”.

“I also call for an urgent end to hostilities in Lebanon,” she added.

Ship movements resume in strait of Hormuz after ceasefire announcement, says MarineTraffic

Some of the first ships to sail through the strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire announcement have been detected, according to tracking data analyst MarineTraffic.

Two vessels, including the Greek-owned bulk carrier NJ Earth and the Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach, have crossed the strait today, MarineTraffic said in a post on X.

It said:

Early signs of vessel activity are emerging in the strait of Hormuz following a ceasefire announcement, which includes a temporary reopening of the strategic waterway to allow for negotiations. According to MarineTraffic data, hundreds of vessels remain in the region, including 426 tankers, 34 LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) carriers, and 19 LNG (liquefied natural gas) vessels, many of which had been effectively stranded during the disruption.

More on the proposed US-Iran talks in Islamabad – reportedly taking place this Friday – the Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he had a “warm and substantive conversation” with the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian today.

In a post of X, Sharif said:

I conveyed my deep appreciation for the wisdom and sagacity of the Iranian leadership in accepting Pakistan’s offer to host peace talks in Islamabad later this week to work jointly for the return of peace to the region.

President Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran’s participation in the upcoming negotiations and expressed appreciation for Pakistan’s efforts, while conveying his best wishes for the people of Pakistan.

Pakistan remains committed to working closely with all its friends and partners to advance peace and stability in the region and beyond.

Lebanon president calls for inclusion of his country in ‘regional peace’

The president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, welcomed the US-Iran ceasefire and said he hoped his country will be included in the regional truce.

The Israeli government and military said the fighting in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah militants would continue, with Israeli strikes reported in the country since the US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

In a statement posted online by the Lebanese presidency, Aoun said Lebanon would continue efforts “to ensure that the regional peace includes Lebanon in a stable and lasting manner”.