{"id":59278,"date":"2026-04-09T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/59278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:50:07","slug":"the-strait-of-hormuz-is-closed-again-is-this-the-end-of-the-iran-us-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/59278\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strait of Hormuz is closed again. Is this the end of the Iran-US ceasefire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran agreed to the ceasefire on Tuesday, just before US President Donald Trump\u2019s deadline for Iran to reopen the strait or risk being sent <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3348912\/trumps-stone-age-threats-against-iran-spark-war-crimes-alarm?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">back to the \u201cStone Ages\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said he agreed to \u201csuspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks\u201d in return for the reopening of the strategically important waterway.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He then said on social media that all US military personnel and weapons would stay near Iran until a \u201creal agreement\u201d was reached between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf for any reason it is not [reached], which is highly unlikely, then the \u2018Shootin\u2019 Starts\u2019, bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US and Iran agreed to the ceasefire on Tuesday, just before US President Donald Trump\u2019s deadline for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[211,383,262,38,100,102,34,9846,37,1093,22870,93,650,55,101,51],"class_list":["post-59278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-hezbollah","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iranian-foreign-minister","tag-israel","tag-j-d-vance","tag-jodie-wen","tag-lebanon","tag-pakistan","tag-russia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116374367324992025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}