{"id":522733,"date":"2026-04-10T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522733\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:41:09","slug":"trump-questions-irans-handling-of-strait-of-hormuz-as-israel-lebanon-to-begin-peace-talks-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522733\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump questions Iran’s handling of Strait of Hormuz as Israel-Lebanon to begin peace talks – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Iranians say they’re ‘happy’ about ceasefire, others think it’s ‘just another trap’published at 20:31 BST 9 April<\/p>\n

20:31 BST 9 April<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n

File photo of a man in Tehran whose home was damaged in a strike, dated 7 April – one day before the ceasefire<\/p>\n

How do people in Iran feel about the ceasefire? Some have been speaking to BBC Persian, which is used by 24 million people in the country, despite being blocked and routinely jammed by Iranian authorities. <\/p>\n

One person says they “feel happy” about it, because “the country won\u2019t be destroyed more, and fewer people will be killed”. <\/p>\n

But they say a better outcome would have been “the end of the Islamic Republic” regime, because it “feels like living next to an angry and wounded wolf that shows its fangs to the people now and then”. <\/p>\n

The US and Israel “can’t be trusted”, says another person. “I don\u2019t think this ceasefire could permanently last.” They say they think the truce is “just another trap” to coax Iranian regime leadership out of hiding so that the US or Israeli military can target them. <\/p>\n

A psychiatrist from Tehran says, “I visit people in their homes everyday… People are tired and are suffering from the economic pressure and can\u2019t afford to buy their medicines”.<\/p>\n

They “hope the Islamic Republic stops supporting its proxies”, and thinks “it should release political prisoners, carry out widespread reforms and national reconciliation to avoid a civil war”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Iranians say they’re ‘happy’ about ceasefire, others think it’s ‘just another trap’published at 20:31 BST 9 April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-522733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}