USA e Iran reached an agreement cease fireor of two weeks 90 minutes before the expiration of the ultimatum of the president, Donald Trump.
The US president previously threatened to wipe out “an entire civilization” if Tehran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Hormuz narrow is cerrado since the beginning of March Iran.
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This pact, mediated by PakistanTrump announced in Truth Social and confirmed minutes later by the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.
The agreement was presented as a “victoria” approved by the new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who took office after the death of his father in the initial bombings of the February 28.
The truce is conditional on Iran allowing “the complete, immediate and secure opening of the Narrow of Hormuz“, through which the 20% of oil world.
The minister of Iranian Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, confirmed that “over a period of two weekssafe passage through the Strait of Hormuz coordinated with the Iranian Armed Forces.
Trump called the ceasefire “bilateral“and claimed to have”compliment and surpassed all military objectives” without the need to execute the massive bombings that he promised.
The president noted that he received a 10-point proposal from Iran that he considered the “viable basis for negotiate“, and that “almost all the various points of contention of the past were agreed upon.”
The negotiations
Among the demands Iranians They highlighted the lifting of all US sanctions, guarantees of no further attacks and the imposition of a toll of 2 million of dollars for each ship that transits the Strait of Hormuzwhose revenues would be shared with Oman and used to rebuild infrastructure damaged by guerra.
Las talks for a permanent agreement will be held on Friday in Islamabadcapital of Pakistan.
“These negotiations will begin with full distrust towards the part United States“warned the Council Iranianwhich maintained its defensive posture. Our hands are in the triggerand to the slightest mistake of the enemy, it will respond with all its force.”
Day of massive terror preceded the agreement
The agreement was reached after a day of tension extrema in which the world watched with alarm as the leader Republican escalated his rhetoric.
“An entire civilization will die tonight, never to return. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” the president wrote 12 hours before the deadline.
The threat triggered an unprecedented human mobilization in Iran. According to President Massoud Pezeshkian, 14 million of Iranians responded to state campaigns and text messages by volunteering to defend infrastructure criticism.
Tens of thousands formed human chains around power plants, bridges y ports in cities such as Bushehr, Tabriz, Mashhad and Ahvaz.
In Bushehrheadquarters of the only iranian nuclear power plant health authorities distributed 180 thousand pills of iodine among residents in preparation for a possible attack radiologic.
“The pills are intended for use in the event of a radiological incident,” explained the deputy director of health at the Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, according to the Farsi News agency.
The threat caused the largest exodus of Tehran since the start of the war.
Crimes against humanity
Residents who fled to the coasts of the Caspian Sea reported one-way traffic heading north and trips that took “several hours longer than normal,” according to The New York Times.
“Everyone is afraid of what might happen tonight,” said Mansour, an evacuated resident.
Since the start of the war on February 28, more than 2 thousand people he dead in Iranmore than 1,500 in Lebanon due to clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, at least 50 in Gulf countries due to Iranian attacks, and 20 and Israel, according to figures from authorities and surveillance groups. On the American side, 13 soldiers died and more than 300 they turned out injured.
The threats of Trump They generated international condemnation.
He Pope Leo XIV described them as “unacceptable”, while the Iranian ambassador to the HIM described them as revelation of “intention to commit crimes against humanity”.
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