{"id":571783,"date":"2026-04-08T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:50:08","slug":"iran-war-ceasefire-begins-though-some-new-attacks-hit-gulf-israel-says-lebanon-not-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571783\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war ceasefire begins though some new attacks hit Gulf, Israel says Lebanon not included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"gz\">The leaders of France, Spain and Finland and top European Union leaders all issued statements welcoming the two-week pause in fighting but urging swift negotiations to bring the war to a permanent end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h2\">French President Emmanuel Macron described the planned pause in fighting between Iran, the United States and Iran as \u201ca very good thing\u201d and said he hopes it \u201cwill be fully respected in the whole region and permit negotiations to be held.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h5\">Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez, who has been Europe\u2019s loudest critic of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s military actions in the Middle East, criticized the threats of violence that preceded the ceasefire announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h8\">\u201cThe Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket,\u201d S\u00e1nchez wrote on X, adding, \u201cWhat\u2019s needed now: diplomacy, international legality, and PEACE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hb\">Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, and Antonio Costa, the head of the European Council, praised Pakistani mediation efforts in social media posts Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"he\">The Turkish and Austrian foreign ministries issued statements welcoming the deal and calling for further negotiations. Austria also offered to host talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaders of France, Spain and Finland and top European Union leaders all issued statements welcoming the two-week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-571783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}