WASHINGTON/DUBAI/CAIRO/TOKYO ¨C The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, reaching a deal less than two hours before President Donald Trump¡¯s deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the wiping out of ¡°a whole civilization.¡±
The announcement late Tuesday represented an abrupt turnaround from Trump¡¯s extraordinary warning earlier, and came after mediation efforts by Pakistan¡¯s military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, and its prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif.
Sharif later said in a post on X he had invited Iranian and U.S. delegations to meet in Islamabad on Friday.
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