{"id":579689,"date":"2026-04-12T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579689\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:00:15","slug":"cnn-halts-for-breaking-donald-trump-update-and-its-bad-news-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579689\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN halts for breaking Donald Trump update – and it’s bad news for the President"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN has issued a breaking news update on the US-Iran conflict, with the channel confirming that US President Donald Trump has ceded the Strait of Hormuz to Iran as part of the ceasefire agreement\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has been very vocal on Truth Social(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

CNN’s regular programming was interrupted to bring viewers breaking news about the US-Iran conflict, which has been ongoing since late February.<\/p>\n

The network has confirmed that US President Donald Trump<\/a> surrendered control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran, with anchor Erin Burnett revealing they will impose a fee on every vessel passing through as part of the ceasefire deal. This development is likely to be a setback for Donald Trump, who has been locked in a battle with Iran over the Strait throughout the conflict.<\/p>\n

Burnett opened as the breaking news banner appeared on screen: “Breaking news, Iran’s Foreign Minister has just responded to Trump’s ceasefire announcement, and I want to read part of it to you.”<\/p>\n

Confirming that an agreement had been struck, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, stated: “If attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations.”<\/p>\n

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He continued: “For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.”<\/p>\n

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council released a separate, lengthy statement, which the CNN<\/a> anchor displayed to the camera, indicating that the ceasefire could be extended beyond its initial two weeks if talks proceed positively.<\/p>\n

After reading part of the statement, Burnett went on: “It sounds like in a translation acknowledgment of Iran saying they control the Strait of Hormuz. Zachary Cohen, a senior reporter for CNN, joined the discussion, informing viewers: “The piece of this about the Strait of Hormuz really is the most important thing that jumps out immediately,” reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He continued: “It’s important for people to remember that the Strait of Hormuz was not controlled in a literal sense by Iran prior to those joint military strikes which kicked off these entire conflicts several weeks ago.”<\/p>\n

\"CNN<\/p>\n

CNN delivered the breaking news report(Image: CNN)<\/p>\n

“Iran responded to the strikes by closing the Strait of Hormuz, and it appears this ceasefire is at least part of the legitimization of Iran’s control of that key waterway.”<\/p>\n

The update arrived hours after Trump shared a disturbing message on Truth Social, which read: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”<\/p>\n

The US leader also stated the deadline would mark “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN has issued a breaking news update on the US-Iran conflict, with the channel confirming that US President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15284,12,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-579689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579689","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=579689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}