Trump news at a glance: a tale of two ceasefires as US and Iran claim different terms

 

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Trump news at a glance: a tale of two ceasefires as US and Iran claim different terms

US and Iran can’t seem to agree on much of their fragile two-week ceasefire agreement – key US politics stories from Wednesday 8 April at a glance

 

Thu 9 Apr 2026 02.04 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest-updates-today

 

The two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, brokered by Pakistan within hours of Donald Trump’s threat of civilization-level destruction, is hanging by a thread – and possibly some key misunderstandings.

 

Washington and Tehran have given decidedly different versions of what was agreed as the Trump administration and Iranian leaders each claim victory.

 

The terms of any lasting deal remain openly contradictory. Trump posted on Wednesday morning that Iran would hand over its enriched uranium and there would be “no enrichment” going forward. Iran’s 10-point counter-proposal, published by its own supreme national security council, explicitly demands the right to enrich.

 

The ceasefire itself is also in dispute. Israel said it does not cover Lebanon, where ground and airstrike campaigns are at the largest they have been since Israel’s invasion north. Pakistan and Iran have both said a ceasefire would include Lebanon even as Israel intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon, leading Iran to halt the passage of oil tankers.