{"id":592700,"date":"2026-04-08T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592700\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:09","slug":"trump-agrees-to-two-week-ceasefire-subject-to-strait-of-hormuz-reopening-kharg-island-struck-by-us-israel-strikes-iran-infrastructure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592700\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire subject to Strait of Hormuz reopening; Kharg Island struck by US; Israel strikes Iran infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has declared victory in the war against Iran, heralding the end of Operation Epic Fury even though proper negotiations are yet to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement a short time ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4b13c938bd2ef1db8b3b24ea934271de519fc762.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump estimated this would be a four-to-six week operation. Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our core military objectives in 38 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt said the military campaign created maximum leverage, and negotiations had now led to \u201can opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, President Trump got the Strait of Hormuz reopened,\u201d she said. \u201cNever underestimate President Trump\u2019s ability to successfully advance America\u2019s interests and broker peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Trump said the ceasefire was dependent on Iran reopening the strait. Iran has said its armed forces would allow ships through the strait for two weeks during the ceasefire, as long as it was not attacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has declared victory in the war against Iran, heralding the end of Operation Epic Fury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-592700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}