{"id":594382,"date":"2026-04-08T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:17:10","slug":"two-week-ceasefire-takes-effect-israel-launches-record-strikes-on-lebanon-iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594382\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-week ceasefire takes effect; Israel launches record strikes on Lebanon; Iran says Strait of Hormuz closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is \u201cimpatient\u201d about making progress toward ending the Iran war and has instructed his negotiating team to engage the Iranians in good faith, Vice President JD Vance said overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Vance will lead the US negotiating team in Islamabad talks aimed at finding a permanent end to the war, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Vice President JD Vance. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a18b1d1cc89e06bab937237163669211719cafab.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>US Vice President JD Vance. AP<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event in Budapest during his trip to Hungary on Wednesday, Vance said a deal was possible if Iran negotiated sincerely, but cautioned that while some parts of the Iranian system were approaching the talks constructively, others were \u201clying\u201d about the ceasefire. He described the situation as a \u201cfragile truce\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president of the United States has told me, and he\u2019s told the entire negotiating team, secretary of state, the special envoy Steve Witkoff, he said go and work in good faith to come to an agreement,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s impatient. He\u2019s impatient to make progress,\u201d Vance added. \u201cHe has told us to negotiate in good faith, and I think if they negotiate in good faith, we will be able to find a deal. But that\u2019s a big if, and ultimately, it\u2019s up to the Iranians how they negotiate. I hope they make the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump is \u201cimpatient\u201d about making progress toward ending the Iran war and has instructed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-594382","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\/594382","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=594382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}