BREAKING: Trump Announces Major Move on Iran, Strait of Hormuz
Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and the United States and Israel will engage in a two-week ceasefire, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
President Trump said that Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir helped him orchestrate the deal.
“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” the president wrote. “This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!”
“The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,” he added.
President Trump said the U.S. received a “10 point proposal from Iran” and he said it represents “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”
“Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated,” he added.
Early Tuesday morning, Trump reiterated his 8 p.m. Eastern deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of every bridge and power plant in the country.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he posted on Truth Social.
“We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World,” Trump wrote. “47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
As the deadline approached, both the U.S. and Israel carried out strikes. The U.S. targeted Kharg Island, and Israel struck eight bridge segments that the Israel Defense Force claimed have been used “for transporting weapons & military equipment.”
Kharg Island, a coral outcrop off Iran’s coast, handles roughly 90% of the country’s crude oil exports, since much of the coastline lacks deep-water ports.
The Strait of Hormuz is a key waterway for the global oil trade. About 25% of world seaborn oil trade transits the straight, according to the International Energy Agency, 80% of it destined for Asia. About 19% of the world’s liquefied natural gas transits the strait, as well.
Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan imported almost two-thirds of their LNG supplies via the Strait of Hormuz in 2025, making them particularly vulnerable to Iran’s actions.
Oil prices fell sharply in late trading as Trump announced the ceasefire. West Texas Intermediate crude, the domestic benchmark, fell by more than 9% to around $ 102 per barrel, The New York Times reported.
Also earlier Tuesday, Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah announced that it had released Shelly Kittleson, a 49-year-old American journalist who had been kidnapped in Baghdad.
This is a breaking news story and may be updated.
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