Iran’s foreign minister says safe passage through the key waterway will be possible for a period of two weeks via coordination with Iranian armed forces.
Trump’s statement came after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asked the US president to extend a deadline for a deal and Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz. AlJazeera reported.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has lauded the ceasefire as a victory for the US that she said Trump and the American military “made happen”.
From the beginning, she said, Trump had estimated the war would run for four to six weeks and that in 38 days, the US has achieved and exceeded Washington’s core military objectives.
“The success of our military created maximum leverage, allowing President Trump and the team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace,” she wrote.
“Additionally, President Trump got the Strait of Hormuz reopened,” she said.
Leavitt’s statement came after Iran’s National Security Council said it agreed to the two-week ceasefire because “almost all the goals of the war have been achieved” and that it decided to hold talks in Islamabad so that its “victory on the battlefield” can be “consolidated in political negotiations”.
