{"id":76966,"date":"2026-04-09T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2026\/apr\/08\/us-iran-ceasefire-has-tehran-played-trump-the-latest"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:48:13","slug":"us-iran-ceasefire-has-tehran-played-trump-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76966","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran ceasefire: has Tehran played Trump? \u2013 The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire thanks to a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions include a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz, but Israel\u2019s position was left unclear, with airstrikes continuing on the Lebanese capital of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have since claimed victory but who, if anyone, is the real winner here? Lucy Hough speaks to the senior international reporter Peter Beaumont <strong>\u2013 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast\"><strong>watch on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2026\/apr\/08\/us-iran-ceasefire-has-tehran-played-trump-the-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire thanks to a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan.The conditions include a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz, but Israel\u2019s position was left unclear, with airstrike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,448,1005,869,60,3511,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966\/revisions\/76969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}