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U.S. President Donald Trump said he would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran to allow for further peace talks, although it was not clear on Wednesday if Iran or Israel, the U.S. ally in the two-month war, would agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said in a statement on social media the U.S. had agreed to a request by Pakistani mediators \u201cto hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal \u2026 and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan\u2019s leaders have hosted peace talks in Islamabad to end a war that has killed thousands of people and shaken the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even as he announced what appeared to be a unilateral ceasefire extension, Trump also said he would continue the U.S. Navy\u2019s blockade of Iran\u2019s trade by sea, considered an act of war by Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no response early on Wednesday to Trump\u2019s announcement from senior Iranian officials, although some initial reactions from Tehran suggested Trump\u2019s comments were being treated skeptically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said Iran had not asked for a ceasefire extension and repeated threats to break the U.S. blockade by force. An adviser to Iran\u2019s lead negotiator, the speaker of parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said Trump\u2019s announcement carried little weight and may be a ploy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s wartime rhetoric has veered between extremes. In an expletive-filled threat against Iran only two weeks ago he promised that a \u201cwhole civilization will die tonight\u201d, while at other times has appeared keen to end the violence and market uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his announcement, Trump again pulled back at the last moment from his threats to bomb Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges. United Nations Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and others have condemned those threats, noting international humanitarian law forbids attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U.S. and Israel began the war on February 28 with aerial bombardments of Iran. The conflict quickly spread to Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and to Lebanon once the Iran-allied militant group Hezbollah joined the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for decades sought to oust Iran\u2019s leadership, but Trump has given shifting and sometimes contradictory rationales for joining Israel to launch the war and how he foresees it ending, stirring confusion in global markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 3,000 civilians have been killed across the region and hundreds of thousands displaced so far, mostly in Iran and Lebanon, and the war has led to the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint in global energy markets between Iran and Oman, sending oil prices soaring and fears that the global economy could enter a recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran has repeatedly exploited its ability to control the passage of oil tankers and other ships in the strait in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said in his statement he was willing to extend the ceasefire because \u201cthe Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so,\u201d a reference to U.S.-Israeli assassinations of some of the country\u2019s leaders in the war\u2019s first weeks, including the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been succeeded by his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few hours before his announcement, Trump had told the CNBC news channel that he was not inclined to continue the temporary truce and the U.S. military was \u201craring to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those comments came as tentatively scheduled peace talks in Islamabad seemed on the verge of falling apart: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, whose presence has been requested by the Iranians, had planned to return to Pakistan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Trump\u2019s latest announcement, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran\u2019s negotiators had been willing to attend another round of talks if the U.S. abandoned a policy of pressure and threats, and rejected negotiations aimed at surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran has condemned the U.S. Navy intercepting and seizing two commercial Iranian ships at sea as part of its blockade, the second earlier on Tuesday, with its foreign ministry accusing the U.S. of \u201cpiracy at sea and state terrorism.\u201d The U.S., joined by multiple other countries, has condemned Iran for impeding freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A first session of talks 10 days ago produced no agreement, with much of the focus on Iran\u2019s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump wants to take the uranium out of Iran in order to prevent the country from enriching it further to the point where it could develop a nuclear weapon. Iran says it has only a peaceful civilian nuclear program and a sovereign right to continue that as a signatory of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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